Bible Verses About Scoffing

When a pestilent man is punished, the little one will be wiser: and if he follow the wise, he will receive knowledge.

The proud and the arrogant is called ignorant, who in anger worketh pride.

Cast out the scoffer, and contention shall go out with him, and quarrels and reproaches shall cease.

The thought of a fool is sin: and the detractor is the abomination of men.

Woe to you that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as the rope of a cart.

That say: Let him make haste, and let his work come quickly, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel come, that we may know it.

Therefore as the tongue of the fire devoureth the stubble, and the heat of the flame consumeth it: so shall their root be as ashes, and their bud shall go up as dust: for they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and have blasphemed the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Therefore is the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people, and he hath stretched out his hand upon them, and struck them: and the mountains were troubles, and their carcasses became as dung in the midst of the streets. For after this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Shall the axe boast itself against him that cutteth with it? or shall the saw exalt itself against him by whom it is drawn? as if a rod should lift itself up against him that lifteth it up, and a staff exalt itself, which is but wood.

For he that did prevail hath failed, the scorner is consumed, and they are all cut off that watched for iniquity:

Upon whom have you jested? upon whom have you opened your mouth wide, and put out your tongue? are not you wicked children, a false seed,

Behold they say to me: Where is the word of the Lord? let it come.

Azarias the son of Osaias, and Johanan the son of Caree, and all the proud men, made answer, saying to Jeremiah: Thou tellest a lie: the Lord our God hath not sent thee, saying: Go not into Egypt, to dwell there.

Zain. Jerusalem hath remembered the days of her affliction, and prevarication of all her desirable things which she had from the days of old, when her people fell in the enemy's hand, and there was no helper; the enemies have seen her, and have mocked at her sabbaths.

And he said to me: Surely thou seest, O son of man, what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every one in private in his chamber: for they say: The Lord seeth us not, the Lord hath forsaken the earth.

And he said to me: The iniquity of the house of Israel, and of Juda, is exceeding great, and the land is filled with blood, and the city is filled with perverseness: for they have said: The Lord hath forsaken the earth, and the Lord seeth not.

And he said to me: Son of man, these are the men that study iniquity, and frame a wicked counsel in this city,

Saying: Were not houses lately built? This city is the caldron, and we the flesh.

Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel? saying: The days shall be prolonged, and every vision shall fail.

And you say: The way of the Lord is not right, I will judge every one of you according to his ways, O house of Israel.

The day of our king, the princes began to be mad with wine: he stretched out his hand with scorners.

But the Pharisees hearing it, said: This man casteth not out devils but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.

And the scribes who were come down from Jerusalem, said: He hath Beelzebub, and by the prince of devils he casteth out devils.

And he said to them: Doubtless you will say to me this similitude: Physician, heal thyself. As great things as we have heard done in Capharnaum, do also here in thy own country.

But some of them said: He casteth out devils by Beelzebub, the prince of devils.