Bible Verses about βgloatingβ
The Bible contains 43 verses about gloating across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
βAnd be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.β
βLet no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.β
βLet all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:β
βBe ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:β
βBut every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.β
βNeither give place to the devil.β
βLet him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with [his] hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.β
βAnd he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;β
βΒΆ With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;β
βFor the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:β
βAnd be renewed in the spirit of your mind;β
βThat ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;β
βAnd that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.β
βEndeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.β
βΒΆ I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,β
βTill we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:β
βBut speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, [even] Christ:β
βThat we [henceforth] be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, [and] cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;β
βFrom whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.β
βWherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.β
βOne Lord, one faith, one baptism,β
βHaving the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:β
β[There is] one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;β
βAnd grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.β
βOne God and Father of all, who [is] above all, and through all, and in you all.β
βWho being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.β
βΒΆ This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,β
βBut ye have not so learned Christ;β
βIf so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:β
βBut unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.β
βWherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.β
β(Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?β
βHe that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)β
βΒΆ Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:β
βΒΆ Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.β
βAs it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:β
βLest the LORD see [it], and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.β
βΒΆ Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.β
βThese are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling [words], having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.β
ββΉWoe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.βΊβ
βBehold, his soul [which] is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.β
βBut thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress.β
βThou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid [hands] on their substance in the day of their calamity;β
