Bible Verses about “being cruel”
The Bible contains 34 verses about being cruel across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion [is] vain.”
“But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels [of compassion] from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?”
“‹Ye are of› [your] ‹father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.›”
“My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.”
“Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.”
“But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,”
“‹Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:›”
“‹For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,›”
“For there is no respect of persons with God.”
“¶ Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:”
“Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.”
“Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and [their] thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)”
“Hereby perceive we the love [of God], because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down [our] lives for the brethren.”
“For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:”
“Then said Jesus, ‹Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.› And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.”
“In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.”
“¶ For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.”
“Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.”
“‹And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward› [is] ‹with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.›”
“Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;”
“But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:”
“¶ The merciful man doeth good to his own soul: but [he that is] cruel troubleth his own flesh.”
“(For not the hearers of the law [are] just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.”
“And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.”
“For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;”
“Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: [so do].”
“Yet count [him] not as an enemy, but admonish [him] as a brother.”
“And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.”
“He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.”
“Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, [then] have we confidence toward God.”
“‹And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:›”
“And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, [but] it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.”
“¶ We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not [his] brother abideth in death.”
“Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.”