Bible Verses About Godlessness: General references

Can the rush grow up without mire? Can the flag grow without water?

Whilst it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, It withereth before any other herb.

So are the paths of all that forget God; And the hope of the godless man shall perish:

Jehovah looked down from heaven upon the children of men, To see if there were any that did understand, That did seek after God.

They are all gone aside; they are together become filthy; There is none that doeth good, no, not one.

God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, To see if there were any that did understand, That did seek after God.

Every one of them is gone back; they are together become filthy; There is none that doeth good, no, not one.

Woe to the rebellious children, saith Jehovah, that take counsel, but not of me; and that make a league, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,

that set out to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt!

For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of Jehovah;

that say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits,

get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.

Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely thereon;

therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly in an instant.

And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now have their own doings beset them about; they are before my face.

They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

They are all adulterers; they are as an oven heated by the baker; he ceaseth to stir the fire, from the kneading of the dough, until it be leavened.

He that hateth me hateth my Father also.

If I had not done among them the works which none other did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.

But this cometh to pass, that the word may be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.

because that, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither gave thanks; but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened.

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

For the mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace:

because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be:

and they that are in the flesh cannot please God.