Bible Verses About Godlessness: General references

`Doth a rush wise without mire? A reed increase without water?

While it is in its budding--uncropped, Even before any herb it withereth.

So are the paths of all forgetting God, And the hope of the profane doth perish,

Jehovah from the heavens Hath looked on the sons of men, To see if there is a wise one--seeking God.

The whole have turned aside, Together they have been filthy: There is not a doer of good, not even one.

God from the heavens looked on the sons of men, To see if there be an understanding one, One seeking God.

Every one went back, together they became filthy, There is none doing good--not even one.

Woe to apostate sons, The affirmation of Jehovah! To do counsel, and not from Me, And to spread out a covering, and not of My spirit, So as to add sin to sin.

Who are walking to go down to Egypt, And My mouth have not asked, To be strong in the strength of Pharaoh, And to trust in the shadow of Egypt.

That a rebellious people is this, sons--liars, Sons not willing to hear the law of Jehovah.

Who have said to seers, `Ye do not see,' And to prophets, `Ye do not prophesy to us Straightforward things, Speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits,

Turn aside from the way, decline from the path, Cause to cease from before us the Holy One of Israel.'

Therefore, thus said the Holy One of Israel, Because of your kicking against this word, And ye trust in oppression, And perverseness, and rely on it,

Therefore is this iniquity to you as a breach falling, Swelled out in a wall set on high, Whose destruction suddenly, at an instant cometh.

And they do not say to their heart, That all their evil I have remembered, Now compassed them have their doings, Over-against My face they have been.

With their wickedness they make glad a king, And with their lies--princes.

All of them are adulterers, Like a burning oven of a baker, He ceaseth from stirring up after kneading the dough, till its leavening.

`He who is hating me, doth hate also my Father;

if I did not do among them the works that no other hath done, they were not having sin, and now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father;

but--that the word may be fulfilled that was written in their law--They hated me without a cause.

because, having known God they did not glorify Him as God, nor gave thanks, but were made vain in their reasonings, and their unintelligent heart was darkened,

professing to be wise, they were made fools,

for the mind of the flesh is death, and the mind of the Spirit--life and peace;

because the mind of the flesh is enmity to God, for to the law of God it doth not subject itself,

for neither is it able; and those who are in the flesh are not able to please God.