Godlessness: General Scriptures Concerning
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Deuteronomy 7:10
But those who hate Him He repays to their faces with destruction; He will not hesitate to repay to his face the one who hates Him.
Deuteronomy 32:15
But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked—becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.
1 Samuel 2:30
Therefore, the LORD, the God of Israel, declares: ‘I did indeed say that your house and the house of your father would walk before Me forever. But now the LORD declares: Far be it from Me! For I will honor those who honor Me, but those who despise Me will be disdained.
Job 8:11–13
Does papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Do reeds flourish without water? / While the shoots are still uncut, they dry up quicker than grass. / Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so the hope of the godless will perish.
Job 35:10
But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,
Psalm 2:2, 4
The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together, against the LORD and against His Anointed One: / The One enthroned in heaven laughs; the Lord taunts them.
Psalm 9:17
The wicked will return to Sheol—all the nations who forget God.
Psalm 10:4
In his pride the wicked man does not seek Him; in all his schemes there is no God.
Psalm 14:2, 3
The LORD looks down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if any understand, if any seek God. / All have turned away, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.
Psalm 28:5
Since they show no regard for the works of the LORD or what His hands have done, He will tear them down and never rebuild them.
Psalm 36:1
For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, the servant of the LORD. An oracle is in my heart regarding the transgression of the wicked man: There is no fear of God before his eyes.
Psalm 50:22
Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:
Psalm 52:7
“Look at the man who did not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his wealth and strengthened himself by destruction.”
Psalm 53:2–4
God looks down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if any understand, if any seek God. / All have turned away, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one. / Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon God.
Psalm 54:3
For strangers rise up against me, and ruthless men seek my life—men with no regard for God. Selah
Psalm 55:19
God will hear and humiliate them—the One enthroned for the ages—Selah because they do not change and they have no fear of God.
Psalm 86:14
The arrogant rise against me, O God; a band of ruthless men seeks my life, with no regard for You.
Proverbs 14:2
He who walks in uprightness fears the LORD, but the one who is devious in his ways despises Him.
Isaiah 1:3
The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.”
Isaiah 5:12
At their feasts are the lyre and harp, tambourines and flutes and wine. They disregard the actions of the LORD and fail to see the work of His hands.
Isaiah 17:10
For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and failed to remember the Rock of your refuge. Therefore, though you cultivate delightful plots and set out cuttings from exotic vines—
Isaiah 22:11
You built a reservoir between the walls for the waters of the ancient pool, but you did not look to the One who made it, or consider Him who planned it long ago.
Isaiah 30:1, 2, 9–13
“Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the LORD, “to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine, who form an alliance, but against My will, heaping up sin upon sin. / They set out to go down to Egypt without asking My advice, to seek shelter under Pharaoh’s protection and take refuge in Egypt’s shade. / These are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to obey the LORD’s instruction.
Isaiah 31:1
Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel; they do not seek the LORD.
Jeremiah 2:32
Does a maiden forget her jewelry or a bride her wedding sash? Yet My people have forgotten Me for days without number.
Daniel 5:23
Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. The vessels from His house were brought to you, and as you drank wine from them with your nobles, wives, and concubines, you praised your gods of silver and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand. But you have failed to glorify the God who holds in His hand your very breath and all your ways.
Hosea 7:2–4
But they fail to consider in their hearts that I remember all their evil. Now their deeds are all around them; they are before My face. / They delight the king with their evil, and the princes with their lies. / They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker who needs not stoke the fire from the kneading to the rising of the dough.
Malachi 2:17
You have wearied the LORD with your words; yet you ask, “How have we wearied Him?” By saying, “All who do evil are good in the sight of the LORD, and in them He delights,” or, “Where is the God of justice?”
Malachi 3:8
Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you ask, ‘How do we rob You?’ In tithes and offerings.
John 5:42, 44
but I know you, that you do not have the love of God within you. / How can you believe if you accept glory from one another, yet do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?
John 15:23–25
Whoever hates Me hates My Father as well. / If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have seen and hated both Me and My Father. / But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated Me without reason.’
Romans 1:21, 22, 28
For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts. / Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools, / Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
Romans 3:11, 18
There is no one who understands, no one who seeks God. / “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
Romans 8:6–8
The mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace, / because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. / Those controlled by the flesh cannot please God.
Ephesians 4:18
They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.
Colossians 1:21
Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds, engaging in evil deeds.
Hebrews 10:26, 27
If we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remains, / but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume all adversaries.
James 4:4
You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.