Bible Verses about “manipulative people”
The Bible contains 50 verses about manipulative people across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud,”
“doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;”
“bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”
“doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;”
“I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.”
“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;”
“Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.”
“So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;”
“For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's.”
“If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing.”
“knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.”
“Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,”
“Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.”
“Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.”
“But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.”
“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.”
“The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God's will remains forever.”
“"Be careful that you don't do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.”
“for the anger of man doesn't produce the righteousness of God.”
“Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.”
“If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man's religion is worthless.”
“But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.”
“Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don't sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.”
“so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.”
“But when you do merciful deeds, don't let your left hand know what your right hand does,”
“But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.”
“But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.”
“Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.”
“neither give place to the devil.”
“But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.”
“For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;”
“for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.”
“One who says, "I know him," and doesn't keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn't in him.”
“He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.”
“For let that man not think that he will receive anything from the Lord.”
“Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God can't be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.”
“And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.”
“that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.”
“He who says he is in the light and hates his brother, is in the darkness even until now.”
“As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don't need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.”
“This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.”
“he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.”
“Don't be deceived, my beloved brothers.”
“Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.”
“Little children, these are the end times, and as you heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen. By this we know that it is the final hour.”
“And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.”
“Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.”
“and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.”
“But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;”
“But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn't know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.”