Bible verses about "sarcasm" | NSB

¹¹ They also complained to Moses: Was there not enough room in Egypt to bury us? Is that why you brought us out here to die in the desert? Why did you bring us out of Egypt?

⁹ Jehovah asked Cain: »Where is your brother Abel?« »I do not know,« he replied. »Am I my brother’s keeper?«

¹⁶ The lazy man is wiser in his own conceit than seven men who can answer with good sense.

¹ Many of you should not be teachers, my brothers. You know that we will receive a heavier (stricter) judgment. ² We all stumble in many things. If any do not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able to restrain (control) the whole body. ³ We put bits in horses' mouths that they may obey us. We guide their whole bodies. ⁴ Look at ships. They are large and are driven by rough winds. Yet a very small rudder can control them, wherever the captain wills. ⁵ The tongue also is a little member. It boasts great things. Consider how great a forest fire a small fire kindles! ⁶ The tongue is like fire, the place of iniquity among our members. It defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of our life. It is set ablaze like the ever-burning fires in the Valley of Hinnom (Greek: Gehenna: symbolic of total destruction). ⁷ Every kind of beast and bird, of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind. ⁸ But no man can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil. It is full of deadly poison. ⁹ We bless Jehovah, the Father, with it. (Psalm 34:1) Then we curse men, who are made after the likeness of God. ¹⁰ Blessing and cursing come out of the same mouth! My brothers, these things should not be. ¹¹ Does the fountain send forth from the same opening sweet water and bitter? ¹² Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine produce figs? Neither can salt water yield sweet. ¹³ Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his works are from meekness because of wisdom. ¹⁴ If you have bitter jealousy (envy) and greedy ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and lie against the truth. ¹⁵ This wisdom is not a wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and devilish. ¹⁶ For where jealousy and selfishness are, there is confusion and every evil deed. ¹⁷ But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable (yielding), full of mercy and good fruits, without discord (partiality), without hypocrisy. ¹⁸ And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace for those who make peace.

⁷ Refuse false stories and old wives' fables. Train yourself with godliness in mind.

²⁷ In the middle of the day, Elijah made sport of them, saying: »Give louder cries, for he is a god; he may be deep in thought. He may have gone away for some purpose. Perhaps he is on a journey. By chance he is sleeping and must be woke up.«

¹⁸ There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword. The tongue of the wise brings a cure.

²¹ Death and life are in the power of the tongue. Those who love it will eat the fruit.

³⁷ »Let your answer be ‘Yes’ or ‘No.’ Anything more than this is from the evil one.

⁴ Nor should there be filthiness, nor foolish talking, or jesting, which are not befitting but rather giving of thanks.

¹⁸ This is like a mad man who throws firebrands, arrows, and death. ¹⁹ So is the man who deceives his neighbor, and says: »I was only joking.«

²⁹ Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth. Speak what is good for understanding as the need may be, that it may give grace (divine favor) to those who hear.