SCOFFING

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• Genesis 21:9

  Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.

• 2 Kings 2:23

  He went up from there to Bethel. As he was going up by the way, some youths came out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up, you baldy! Go up, you baldy!”

• 2 Chronicles 30:6

  So the couriers went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, “You children of Israel, turn again to Yahweh, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may return to the remnant of you that have escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.

• 2 Chronicles 30:7

  Don’t be like your fathers and like your brothers, who trespassed against Yahweh, the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as you see.

• 2 Chronicles 30:8

  Now don’t be stiff-necked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to Yahweh, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever, and serve Yahweh your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.

• 2 Chronicles 30:9

  For if you turn again to Yahweh, your brothers and your children will find compassion before those who led them captive, and will come again into this land, because Yahweh your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.”

• 2 Chronicles 30:10

  So the couriers passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun, but people ridiculed them and mocked them.

• 2 Chronicles 36:16

  but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.

• Nehemiah 4:1

  But when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry, and was very indignant, and mocked the Jews.

• Job 21:14

  They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.

• Job 21:15

  What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’

• Job 30:1

  “But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.

• Job 30:9

  “Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a byword to them.

• Job 34:7

  What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water,

• Psalms 1:1

  Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

• Psalms 35:15

  But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn’t know it. They tore at me, and didn’t cease.

• Psalms 35:16

  Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me.

• Psalms 42:3

  My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”

• Psalms 42:10

  As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”

• Psalms 73:11

  They say, “How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?”

• Psalms 78:19

  Yes, they spoke against God. They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

• Psalms 78:20

  Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide meat for his people?”

• Psalms 107:11

  because they rebelled against the words of God, and condemned the counsel of the Most High.

• Psalms 107:12

  Therefore he brought down their heart with labor. They fell down, and there was no one to help.

• Proverbs 1:22

  “How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

• Proverbs 1:25

  but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof;

• Proverbs 3:34

  Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble.

• Proverbs 9:12

  If you are wise, you are wise for yourself. If you mock, you alone will bear it.

• Proverbs 13:1

  A wise son listens to his father’s instruction, but a scoffer doesn’t listen to rebuke.

• Proverbs 14:6

  A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn’t find it, but knowledge comes easily to a discerning person.

• Proverbs 14:9

  Fools mock at making atonement for sins, but among the upright there is good will.

• Proverbs 19:29

  Penalties are prepared for scoffers, and beatings for the backs of fools.

• Proverbs 21:11

  When the mocker is punished, the simple gains wisdom. When the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.

• Proverbs 21:24

  The proud and haughty man, “scoffer” is his name; he works in the arrogance of pride.

• Proverbs 22:10

  Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out; yes, quarrels and insults will stop.

• Proverbs 24:9

  The schemes of folly are sin. The mocker is detested by men.

• Isaiah 5:18

  Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and wickedness as with cart rope;

• Isaiah 5:19

  Who say, “Let him make speed, let him hasten his work, that we may see it; and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!”

• Isaiah 5:24

  Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Armies, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

• Isaiah 5:25

  Therefore Yahweh’s anger burns against his people, and he has stretched out his hand against them, and has struck them. The mountains tremble, and their dead bodies are as refuse in the middle of the streets. For all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is still stretched out.

• Isaiah 10:15

  Should an ax brag against him who chops with it? Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it? As if a rod should lift those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up someone who is not wood.

• Isaiah 28:14

  Therefore hear Yahweh’s word, you scoffers, that rule this people in Jerusalem:

• Isaiah 29:20

  For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off —

• Isaiah 57:4

  Whom do you mock? Against whom do you make a wide mouth, and stick out your tongue? Aren’t you children of disobedience, and offspring of falsehood,

• Jeremiah 17:15

  Behold, they tell me, “Where is Yahweh’s word? Let it be fulfilled now.”

• Jeremiah 43:2

  then Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men spoke, saying to Jeremiah, “You speak falsely. Yahweh our God has not sent you to say, ‘You shall not go into Egypt to live there;’

• Lamentations 1:7

  Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old: when her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and no one helped her, The adversaries saw her, they mocked at her desolations.

• Ezekiel 8:12

  Then he said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his rooms of imagery? For they say, ‘Yahweh doesn’t see us. Yahweh has forsaken the land.’”

• Ezekiel 9:9

  Then he said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perversion; for they say, ‘Yahweh has forsaken the land, and Yahweh doesn’t see.’

• Ezekiel 11:2

  He said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity, and who give wicked counsel in this city;

• Ezekiel 11:3

  who say, ‘The time is not near to build houses. This is the cauldron, and we are the meat.’

• Ezekiel 12:22

  “Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel, saying, ‘The days are prolonged, and every vision fails?’

• Ezekiel 25:3

  and tell the children of Ammon, Hear the word of the Lord Yahweh: Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Because you said, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was made desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity:

• Ezekiel 26:2

  Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken: the gate of the peoples; she is turned to me; I shall be replenished, now that she is laid waste:

• Ezekiel 33:20

  Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. House of Israel, I will judge every one of you after his ways.

• Ezekiel 36:2

  Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because the enemy has said against you, Aha! and, The ancient high places are ours in possession;

• Ezekiel 36:3

  therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you might be a possession to the residue of the nations, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers, and the evil report of the people;

• Hosea 7:5

  On the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine. He joined his hand with mockers.

• Matthew 12:24

  But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, “This man does not cast out demons, except by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.”

• Matthew 27:28

  They stripped him, and put a scarlet robe on him.

• Matthew 27:29

  They braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they kneeled down before him, and mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”

• Matthew 27:30

  They spat on him, and took the reed and struck him on the head.

• Matthew 27:41

  Likewise the chief priests also mocking, with the scribes, the Pharisees, and the elders, said,

• Mark 3:22

  The scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, “He has Beelzebul,” and, “By the prince of the demons he casts out the demons.”

• Luke 4:23

  He said to them, “Doubtless you will tell me this parable, ‘Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done at Capernaum, do also here in your hometown.’”

• Luke 11:15

  But some of them said, “He casts out demons by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.”

• Luke 16:14

  The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.

• Luke 22:63

  The men who held Jesus mocked him and beat him.

• Luke 22:64

  Having blindfolded him, they struck him on the face and asked him, “Prophesy! Who is the one who struck you?”

• Luke 23:11

  Herod with his soldiers humiliated him and mocked him. Dressing him in luxurious clothing, they sent him back to Pilate.

• Luke 23:35

  The people stood watching. The rulers with them also scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others. Let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his chosen one!”

• Luke 23:36

  The soldiers also mocked him, coming to him and offering him vinegar,

• Acts 2:13

  Others, mocking, said, “They are filled with new wine.”

• Acts 13:45

  But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.

• Acts 17:18

  Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign deities,” because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.

• Acts 17:32

  Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.”

• Hebrews 10:29

  How much worse punishment do you think he will be judged worthy of who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

• 2 Peter 3:3

  knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts,

• 2 Peter 3:4

  and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.”