Proverbs 14:21 – Those Who Mock the Poor Insult Their Maker
“Whoever despises his neighbor is a sinner, but blessed is he who is generous to the poor.”
Job 12:4 – Mocking Calls for God’s Justice
“I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called to God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.”
Galatians 6:7 – Mocking God Leads to Destruction
“Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.”
2 Chronicles 36:16 – Mocking God’s Messengers Brings Consequences
“But they mocked the messengers of God, despised his words and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, until there was no remedy.”
Psalm 1:1 – Mocking God’s Law Leads to Ungodliness
“Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers.”
Proverbs 19:29 – Mocking God’s Justice Will Be Punished
“Condemnation is ready for scoffers, and beating for the backs of fools.”
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Amos 4:2 – Mocking God’s Holiness Provokes His Judgment
“The Lord God has sworn by his holiness that, behold, the days are coming upon you, when they shall take you away with hooks, even the last of you with fishhooks.”
Proverbs 9:7-8 – Mocking God’s Wisdom Brings Harm
“Whoever corrects a scoffer gets himself abuse, and he who reproves a wicked man incurs injury. Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you; reprove a wise man, and he will love you.”
Isaiah 37:23 – Mocking God’s Power Invokes His Wrath
“Whom have you mocked and reviled? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes to the heights? Against the Holy One of Israel!”
Proverbs 29:8 – Mocking God’s Judgment Brings Destruction
“Scoffers set a city aflame, but the wise turn away wrath.”
Genesis 19:14 – Mocking God’s Warnings Leads to Destruction
“So Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, ‘Up! Get out of this place, for the Lord is about to destroy the city.’ But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be jesting.”
Proverbs 14:9 – Fools Mock at Guilt and Sin
“Fools mock at the guilt offering, but the upright enjoy acceptance.”
Ecclesiastes 5:4-6 – Mocking God’s Promises Brings His Wrath
“When you vow a vow to God, do not delay paying it, for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay what you vow. It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay. Let not your mouth lead you into sin, and do not say before the messenger that it was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice and destroy the work of your hands?”
Proverbs 1:22 – Mocking Wisdom Invites Disaster
“How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?”
Ezekiel 23:32 – Mocking God’s Law Brings Judgment
“Thus says the Lord God: You shall drink your sister’s cup that is deep and large; you shall be laughed at and held in derision, for it contains much;”
Psalm 2:4 – Those Who Mock God Will Be Laughed At
“He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord holds them in derision.”
Jude 1:18 – Mocking God’s Word Leads to Apostasy
“They said to you, ‘In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.’
Jeremiah 20:7 – Those Who Mock God Are Overwhelmed with Shame
“O Lord, you have deceived me, and I was deceived; you are stronger than I, and you have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all the day; everyone mocks me.”
Proverbs 3:34 – God Mocks the Mockers
“Toward the scorners he is scornful, but to the humble he gives favor.”
2 Peter 3:3-4 – Mocking God’s Return Bears Consequences
“Knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. They will say, ‘Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.’
Job 12:17-19 – Mocking God’s Wisdom Reveals Ignorance
“He leads counselors away stripped, and judges he makes fools. He looses the bonds of kings and binds a waistcloth on their hips. He leads priests away stripped and overthrows the mighty.”
Psalm 73:11 – Mocking God’s Providence Leads to Pride
“And they say, ‘How can God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?’
Proverbs 19:25 – Mockery of God’s Ways Leads to Ruin
“Strike a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; reprove a man of understanding, and he will gain knowledge.”
Romans 2:4 – Mocking God’s Kindness Causes Repentance
“Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?”
Proverbs 20:1 – Mockery of God’s Design Brings Woe
“Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.”
Isaiah 37:29 – Mocking God’s Sovereignty Brings Judgment
“Because you have raged against me and your complacency has come into my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will turn you back on the way by which you came.”
Proverbs 14:21 – Mocking the Poor is Mocking God
“Whoever despises his neighbor is a sinner, but blessed is he who is generous to the poor.”
Job 34:7 – Mocking God’s Justice is Wicked
“What man is like Job, who drinks up scoffing like water,”
Proverbs 1:26 – Mocking God’s Warnings Invites Disaster
“I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when terror strikes you,”
Psalm 119:51 – The Mockers Do Not Turn from God’s Law
“The insolent utterly deride me, but I do not turn away from your law.”
Mark 15:16-20 – Mocking God’s Anointed Brings Suffering
“And the soldiers led him away inside the palace (that is, the governor’s headquarters), and they called together the whole battalion. And they clothed him in a purple cloak, and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on him. And they began to salute him, ‘Hail, King of the Jews!’ And they were striking his head with a reed and spitting on him and kneeling down in homage to him. And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the purple cloak and put his own clothes on him. And they led him out to crucify him.”
Jeremiah 9:3 – Mocking is Deceitful Lips
“They bend their tongue like a bow; falsehood and not truth has grown strong in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, declares the Lord.”
Proverbs 21:24 – Proud Mockers are Called Haughty
“‘Scoffer’ is the name of the arrogant, haughty man who acts with arrogant pride.”
1 Kings 18:27 – Mocking False Gods is Useless
“And at noon Elijah mocked them, saying, ‘Cry aloud, for he is a god. Either he is musing, or he is relieving himself, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he is asleep and must be awakened.’
Psalm 22:7-8 – Mockers Surround God’s Anointed
“All who see me mock me; they make mouths at me; they wag their heads; ‘He trusts in the Lord; let him deliver him; let him rescue him, for he delights in him!’
Hosea 7:5 – Mockery Springs from a Corrupt Heart
“On the day of our king, the princes became sick with the heat of wine; he stretched out his hand with mockers.”
Job 21:3 – The Mockers Question God’s Justice
“Bear with me, and I will speak, and after I have spoken, mock on.”
Proverbs 29:9 – Mocking God’s Truth Leads to Conflict
“If a wise man has an argument with a fool, the fool only rages and laughs, and there is no quiet.”
2 Chronicles 30:10 – God Calls to Turn from Mocking
“So the couriers went from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, and as far as Zebulun, but they laughed them to scorn and mocked them.”
Ephesians 5:4 – Mocking is Out of Place for God’s People
“Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving.”
Isaiah 28:22 – Mocking God’s Warnings Brings Destruction
“And now do not carry on as scoffers, or your fetters will be made stronger; for I have heard from the Lord God of hosts of decisive destruction on all the earth.”
Proverbs 15:12 – A Mocker Does Not Love Anyone
“A scoffer does not like to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.”