Mockers

Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

• Persecution

Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?

My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.

• Punishment

Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.

Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath.

For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:

Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.

Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who dealeth in proud wrath.

Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly.

He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.

A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise.

Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot. Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning. The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding. read more For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased. If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it. A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing. For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city, To call passengers who go right on their ways: Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him, Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. show less

With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation.

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• Self-delusion

Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: read more But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. show less

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.