Scorning and Mocking

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Isaiah 57:3-6 OT

  “But draw near here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes. 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,…

• Psalms 69:12 OT

  Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song of the drunkards.

• Hosea 7:5 OT

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

• Proverbs 1:22 OT

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

• Proverbs 22:10 OT

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

• Proverbs 3:34 OT

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

• Proverbs 24:9 OT

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

• Psalms 1:1 OT

  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;

• Jeremiah 15:17 OT

  I didn’t sit in the assembly of those who make merry and rejoice. I sat alone because of your hand, for you have filled me with indignation.

• Proverbs 21:24 OT

  The proud and arrogant man—“Scoffer” is his name— he works in the arrogance of pride.

• Proverbs 13:1 OT

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

• Proverbs 15:12 OT

  A scoffer doesn’t love to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.

• Proverbs 9:8 OT

  Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise person, and he will love you.

• Proverbs 29:8 OT

  Mockers stir up a city, but wise men turn away anger.

• Ezekiel 23:32 OT

  “The Lord Yahweh says: ‘You will drink of your sister’s cup, which is deep and large. You will be ridiculed and held in derision. It contains much.

• Jude 1:1 NT

  Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:

• Isaiah 5:18 OT

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

• 2 Chronicles 36:17 OT

  Therefore he brought on them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or gray-headed. He gave them all into his hand.

• Proverbs 19:29 OT

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

• Isaiah 29:20 OT

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

• Lamentations 3:64-66 OT

  You will pay them back, Yahweh, according to the work of their hands. You will give them hardness of heart, your curse to them. You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh.

• 2 Kings 2:23 OT

  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 30:10 OT

  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.

• Nehemiah 4:1 OT

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