What Does the Bible Say About Godlessness?

“And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.”

“But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.”

“Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?”

“Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.”

“So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:”

“But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;”

“The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,”

“He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.”

“The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.”

“The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts. God is: or, all his thoughts are, There is no God”

“The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.”

“They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one. filthy: Heb. stinking”

“Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.”

“To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD. The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.”

“Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.”

“Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness. wickedness: or, substance”

“God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.”

“Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.”

“For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.”

“God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God. Because: or, With whom also there be no changes, yet they”

“O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them. violent: Heb. terrible”

“He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the LORD: but he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him.”

“The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.”

“And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.”

“Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:”

“Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago.”

“Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:”

“That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!”

“That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:”

“Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:”

“Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.”

“Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon: oppression: or, fraud”

“Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.”

“Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!”

“Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.”

“But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:”

“And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face. consider: Heb. say not to”

“They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.”

“They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened. who: or, the raiser will cease raising: or, waking”

“Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?”

“Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.”

“But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.”

“How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another , and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?”

“He that hateth me hateth my Father also.”

“If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.”

“But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.”

“Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.”

“Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,”

“And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; to retain: or, to acknowledge a reprobate: or, a mind void of judgment or, an unapproving mind”

“There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.”

“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

“For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. to be carnally: Gr. the minding of the flesh to be spiritually: Gr. the minding of the Spirit”

“Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. the carnal: Gr. the minding of the flesh”

“So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.”

“Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: blindness: or, hardness”

“And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled in: or, by your mind in”

“For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,”

“But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.”

“Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.”