Bible Verses about “spiteful people”
The Bible contains 50 verses about spiteful people across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“¶ In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;”
“Love not the world, neither the things [that are] in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.”
“¶ Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:”
“For all that [is] in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.”
“Knowing [this], that the trying of your faith worketh patience.”
“¶ My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;”
“But let patience have [her] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.”
“Blessed [is] the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.”
“If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all [men] liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.”
“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.”
“And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.”
“For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.”
“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world.”
“If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion [is] vain.”
“But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.”
“But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.”
“But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.”
“But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.”
“But ye [are] a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:”
“But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.”
“Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.”
“But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth [therein], he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.”
“For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:”
“For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.”
“He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.”
“A double minded man [is] unstable in all his ways.”
“For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.”
“As free, and not using [your] liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.”
“For [there is] one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;”
“¶ Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:”
“Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.”
“Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.”
“Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.”
“He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.”
“But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.”
“Honour all [men]. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.”
“¶ And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.”
“He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.”
“Do not err, my beloved brethren.”
“Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.”
“¶ Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.”
“For Adam was first formed, then Eve.”
“And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for [the sins of] the whole world.”
“Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.”
“¶ I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, [and] giving of thanks, be made for all men;”
“And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.”
“But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.”
“Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:”
“But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.”
“For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.”