90 Bible Verses About People Who Mock God

Mocking God is a serious matter in the Bible. It reveals a heart filled with pride and rebellion. Throughout Scripture, God warns against treating Him with contempt or disrespect. Those who mock God face real consequences for their actions. 

The Bible calls believers to honor God and pray for mockers. These 90 verses show us God’s view on mockery and remind us to walk humbly before Him.

90 Bible Verses About People Who Mock God

• Genesis 19:14 – “So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who had married his daughters. He said, ‘Hurry and get out of this place, because the Lord is about to destroy the city!’ But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.”
• Exodus 5:2 – “Pharaoh said, ‘Who is the Lord, that I should obey him and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord and I will not let Israel go.'”
• Numbers 15:30 – “But anyone who sins defiantly, whether native-born or foreigner, blasphemes the Lord and must be cut off from the people of Israel.”
• Deuteronomy 32:15 – “Jeshurun grew fat and kicked; filled with food, they became heavy and sleek. They abandoned the God who made them and rejected the Rock their Savior.”
• Job 12:4 – “I have become a laughingstock to my friends, though I called on God and he answered—a mere laughingstock, though righteous and blameless!”
• Job 17:2 – “Surely mockers surround me; my eyes must dwell on their hostility.”
• Job 21:14-15 – “Yet they say to God, ‘Leave us alone! We have no desire to know your ways. Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him?'”
• Psalm 1:1 – “Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers.”
• Psalm 10:4 – “In his pride the wicked man does not seek him; in all his thoughts there is no room for God.”
• Psalm 10:11 – “He says to himself, ‘God will never notice; he covers his face and never sees.'”
• Psalm 10:13 – “Why does the wicked man revile God? Why does he say to himself, ‘He won’t call me to account’?”
• Psalm 14:1 – “The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God.’ They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; there is no one who does good.”
• Psalm 22:7-8 – “All who see me mock me; they hurl insults, shaking their heads. ‘He trusts in the Lord,’ they say, ‘let the Lord rescue him.'”
• Psalm 35:16 – “Like the ungodly they maliciously mocked; they gnashed their teeth at me.”
• Psalm 39:8 – “Save me from all my transgressions; do not make me the scorn of fools.”
• Psalm 42:10 – “My bones suffer mortal agony as my foes taunt me, saying to me all day long, ‘Where is your God?'”
• Psalm 52:1 – “Why do you boast of evil, you mighty hero? Why do you boast all day long, you who are a disgrace in the eyes of God?”
• Psalm 73:11 – “They say, ‘How would God know? Does the Most High know anything?'”
• Psalm 74:10 – “How long will the enemy mock you, God? Will the foe revile your name forever?”
• Psalm 74:18 – “Remember how the enemy has mocked you, Lord, how foolish people have reviled your name.”
• Psalm 74:22 – “Rise up, O God, and defend your cause; remember how fools mock you all day long.”
• Psalm 79:12 – “Pay back into the laps of our neighbors seven times the contempt they have hurled at you, Lord.”
• Psalm 89:51 – “The taunts with which your enemies, Lord, have mocked, with which they have mocked every step of your anointed one.”
• Psalm 94:7 – “They say, ‘The Lord does not see; the God of Jacob takes no notice.'”
• Psalm 119:51 – “The arrogant mock me unmercifully, but I do not turn from your law.”
• Psalm 123:3-4 – “Have mercy on us, Lord, have mercy on us, for we have endured no end of contempt. We have endured no end of ridicule from the arrogant.”
• Proverbs 1:22 – “How long will you who are simple love your simple ways? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge?”
• Proverbs 1:26 – “I in turn will laugh when disaster strikes you; I will mock when calamity overtakes you.”
• Proverbs 3:34 – “He mocks proud mockers but shows favor to the humble and oppressed.”
• Proverbs 9:7-8 – “Whoever corrects a mocker invites insults; whoever rebukes the wicked incurs abuse. Do not rebuke mockers or they will hate you.”
• Proverbs 9:12 – “If you are wise, your wisdom will reward you; if you are a mocker, you alone will suffer.”
• Proverbs 13:1 – “A wise son heeds his father’s instruction, but a mocker does not respond to rebukes.”
• Proverbs 14:6 – “The mocker seeks wisdom and finds none, but knowledge comes easily to the discerning.”
• Proverbs 14:9 – “Fools mock at making amends for sin, but goodwill is found among the upright.”
• Proverbs 15:12 – “Mockers resent correction, so they avoid the wise.”
• Proverbs 19:29 – “Penalties are prepared for mockers, and beatings for the backs of fools.”
• Proverbs 21:11 – “When a mocker is punished, the simple gain wisdom; by paying attention to the wise they get knowledge.”
• Proverbs 21:24 – “The proud and arrogant person—’Mocker’ is his name—behaves with insolent fury.”
• Proverbs 22:10 – “Drive out the mocker, and out goes strife; quarrels and insults are ended.”
• Proverbs 24:9 – “The schemes of folly are sin, and people detest a mocker.”
• Proverbs 29:8 – “Mockers stir up a city, but the wise turn away anger.”
• Isaiah 5:19 – “To those who say, ‘Let God hurry; let him hasten his work so we may see it. The plan of the Holy One of Israel—let it approach, let it come into view, so we may know it.'”
• Isaiah 5:20 – “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness.”
• Isaiah 28:14 – “Therefore hear the word of the Lord, you scoffers who rule this people in Jerusalem.”
• Isaiah 28:22 – “Now stop your mocking, or your chains will become heavier; the Lord, the Lord Almighty, has told me of the destruction decreed against the whole land.”
• Isaiah 29:20 – “The ruthless will vanish, the mockers will disappear, and all who have an eye for evil will be cut down.”
• Isaiah 37:23 – “Who is it you have ridiculed and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!”
• Isaiah 57:4 – “Who are you mocking? At whom do you sneer and stick out your tongue? Are you not a brood of rebels, the offspring of liars?”
• Jeremiah 17:15 – “They keep saying to me, ‘Where is the word of the Lord? Let it now be fulfilled!'”
• Jeremiah 20:7 – “You deceived me, Lord, and I was deceived; you overpowered me and prevailed. I am ridiculed all day long; everyone mocks me.”
• Lamentations 1:7 – “In the days of her affliction and wandering Jerusalem remembers all the treasures that were hers in days of old. When her people fell into enemy hands, there was no one to help her. Her enemies looked at her and laughed at her destruction.”
• Lamentations 2:15 – “All who pass your way clap their hands at you; they scoff and shake their heads at Daughter Jerusalem: ‘Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth?'”
• Lamentations 3:14 – “I became the laughingstock of all my people; they mock me in song all day long.”
• Ezekiel 8:17 – “He said to me, ‘Have you seen this, son of man? Is it a trivial matter for the people of Judah to do the detestable things they are doing here?'”
• Ezekiel 20:27 – “Therefore, son of man, speak to the people of Israel and say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: In this also your ancestors blasphemed me by being unfaithful to me.'”
• Hosea 7:5 – “On the day of the festival of our king the princes become inflamed with wine, and he joins hands with the mockers.”
• Zephaniah 2:8 – “I have heard the insults of Moab and the taunts of the Ammonites, who insulted my people and made threats against their land.”
• Zephaniah 2:10 – “This is what they will get in return for their pride, for insulting and mocking the people of the Lord Almighty.”
• Nehemiah 2:19 – “But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official and Geshem the Arab heard about it, they mocked and ridiculed us. ‘What is this you are doing?’ they asked.”
• Nehemiah 4:1 – “When Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, he became angry and was greatly incensed. He ridiculed the Jews.”
• 2 Chronicles 30:10 – “The couriers went from town to town in Ephraim and Manasseh, as far as Zebulun, but people scorned and ridiculed them.”
• 2 Chronicles 36:16 – “But they mocked God’s messengers, despised his words and scoffed at his prophets until the wrath of the Lord was aroused against his people and there was no remedy.”

• Matthew 9:24 – “He said, ‘Go away. The girl is not dead but asleep.’ But they laughed at him.”
• Matthew 27:29 – “And then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on his head. They put a staff in his right hand. Then they knelt in front of him and mocked him. ‘Hail, king of the Jews!’ they said.”
• Matthew 27:31 – “After they had mocked him, they took off the robe and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him away to crucify him.”
• Matthew 27:39-40 – “Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads and saying, ‘You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself!'”
• Matthew 27:41-42 – “In the same way the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders mocked him. ‘He saved others,’ they said, ‘but he can’t save himself!'”
• Mark 5:40 – “But they laughed at him. After he put them all out, he took the child’s father and mother and the disciples who were with him, and went in where the child was.”
• Mark 15:20 – “And when they had mocked him, they took off the purple robe and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him out to crucify him.”
• Mark 15:31 – “In the same way the chief priests and the teachers of the law mocked him among themselves. ‘He saved others,’ they said, ‘but he can’t save himself!'”
• Luke 8:53 – “They laughed at him, knowing that she was dead.”
• Luke 16:14 – “The Pharisees, who loved money, heard all this and were sneering at Jesus.”
• Luke 22:63-64 – “The men who were guarding Jesus began mocking and beating him. They blindfolded him and demanded, ‘Prophesy! Who hit you?'”
• Luke 23:11 – “Then Herod and his soldiers ridiculed and mocked him. Dressing him in an elegant robe, they sent him back to Pilate.”
• Luke 23:35 – “The people stood watching, and the rulers even sneered at him. They said, ‘He saved others; let him save himself if he is God’s Messiah, the Chosen One.'”
• Luke 23:36 – “The soldiers also came up and mocked him. They offered him wine vinegar.”
• Acts 2:13 – “Some, however, made fun of them and said, ‘They have had too much wine.'”
• Acts 13:41 – “‘Look, you scoffers, wonder and perish, for I am going to do something in your days that you would never believe, even if someone told you.'”
• Acts 17:18 – “A group of Epicurean and Stoic philosophers began to debate with him. Some of them asked, ‘What is this babbler trying to say?’ Others remarked, ‘He seems to be advocating foreign gods.'”
• Acts 17:32 – “When they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some of them sneered, but others said, ‘We want to hear you again on this subject.'”
• Romans 1:30 – “Slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents.”
• 1 Corinthians 1:18 – “For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.”
• Galatians 6:7 – “Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.”
• 2 Thessalonians 2:4 – “He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God.”
• 1 Timothy 1:20 – “Among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan to be taught not to blaspheme.”
• 2 Timothy 3:2 – “People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy.”
• Hebrews 10:29 – “How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?”
• 2 Peter 3:3-4 – “Above all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. They will say, ‘Where is this “coming” he promised?'”
• Jude 1:18 – “They said to you, ‘In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires.'”
• Revelation 16:9 – “They were seared by the intense heat and they cursed the name of God, who had control over these plagues, but they refused to repent and glorify him.”

Frequently Asked Questions

What does it mean to mock God? 

Mocking God means showing disrespect, contempt, or ridicule toward Him, His Word, or His people through words or actions.

What does Galatians 6:7 teach about mocking God? 

It teaches that God cannot be mocked and that whatever a person sows, they will also reap in their life.

Can believers accidentally mock God? 

Yes, believers can mock God by ignoring His commands, treating Scripture lightly, or living in hypocrisy while claiming faith.

How should Christians respond to those who mock God? 

Christians should respond with love, prayer, and humility, asking God to open the mocker’s heart to truth and repentance.

What are the consequences of mocking God? 

The Bible warns that mockers will face God’s judgment and reap the results of their rebellion unless they repent.

Conclusion

The Bible is clear that mocking God is a serious sin with real consequences. From the Old Testament to the New Testament, Scripture warns us that God sees every act of mockery and rebellion. 

Those who reject God and ridicule His ways are storing up judgment for themselves. Yet God is patient and merciful, giving people time to repent and turn to Him. As believers, we must examine our own hearts and make sure we honor God in everything. 

Say This Prayer

Dear Heavenly Father, I come to You with a humble heart today. Please forgive me if I have ever mocked You or treated Your Word lightly. Help me to honor Your name in all I say and do. Teach me to walk in reverence and fear of You. 

Guard my heart from pride and rebellion against Your truth. I pray for those who mock You right now. Open their eyes to see Your love and truth. Soften their hearts and bring them to repentance before it is too late. 

Use my life as a light that points others to You. Help me to be a witness of Your grace and mercy. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.