Bible Verses about “being mean”
The Bible contains 44 verses about being mean across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.”
“And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.”
“¶ A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.”
“And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, [do] all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.”
“And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.”
“For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;”
“But ye [are] a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:”
“Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also [do] ye.”
“As free, and not using [your] liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.”
“And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.”
“Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.”
“Honour all [men]. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.”
“¶ Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;”
“Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.”
“For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:”
“As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:”
“For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:”
“Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.”
“¶ Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,”
“Dearly beloved, I beseech [you] as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;”
“¶ To whom coming, [as unto] a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, [and] precious,”
“¶ Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.”
“Servants, [be] subject to [your] masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.”
“For what glory [is it], if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer [for it], ye take it patiently, this [is] acceptable with God.”
“So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.”
“Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by [your] good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.”
“If so be ye have tasted that the Lord [is] gracious.”
“For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.”
“Which in time past [were] not a people, but [are] now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.”
“Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.”
“For this [is] thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.”
“Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed [himself] to him that judgeth righteously:”
“Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:”
“And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, [even to them] which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.”
“It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.”
“¶ He that walketh with wise [men] shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.”
“Unto you therefore which believe [he is] precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,”
“Therefore [it is] no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.”
“As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all [men], especially unto them who are of the household of faith.”
“For such [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.”
“For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.”
“¶ [A Psalm] of David. Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.”
“For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.”
“¶ A wholesome tongue [is] a tree of life: but perverseness therein [is] a breach in the spirit.”