Bible Verses about “negative people”
The Bible contains 50 verses about negative people across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told [you] in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”
“Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,”
“Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,”
“‹Come unto me, all› [ye] ‹that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.›”
“¶ ‹Judge not, that ye be not judged.›”
“‹For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.›”
“Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.”
“My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:”
“Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:”
“¶ The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of knowledge: [but] fools despise wisdom and instruction.”
“Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;”
“‹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 they [shall be] an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.”
“¶ Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:”
“Having the glory of God: and her light [was] like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal;”
“Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;”
“And he said, ‹That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.›”
“‹All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.›”
“A wise [man] will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:”
“¶ Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:”
“She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, [saying],”
“But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.”
“For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.”
“For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:”
“Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;”
“But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:”
“I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;”
“When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.”
“Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:”
“They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.”
“Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.”
“My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:”
“How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?”
“Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.”
“To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.”
“¶ My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.”
“So [are] the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; [which] taketh away the life of the owners thereof.”
“Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.”
“To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;”
“To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.”
“We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:”
“For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.”
“To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;”
“If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:”
“Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:”
“Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:”
“Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.”
“And they lay wait for their [own] blood; they lurk privily for their [own] lives.”
“¶ The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;”