Proverbs 3:34
3:34 Although he is scornful to arrogant scoffers,
yet he shows favor to the humble.
Proverbs 9:12
9:12 If you are wise, you are wise to your own advantage,
but if you are a mocker, you alone must bear it.
Isaiah 28:22
28:22 So now, do not mock,
or your chains will become heavier!
For I have heard a message about decreed destruction,
from the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, against the entire land.
Isaiah 29:20
29:20 For tyrants will disappear,
those who taunt will vanish,
and all those who love to do wrong will be eliminated –
Acts 13:40-41
13:40 Watch out,
then, that what is spoken about by
the prophets does not happen to you:
13:41 ‘Look, you scoffers; be amazed and perish!
For I am doing a work in your days,
a work you would never believe, even if someone tells you.’”
Acts 13:2
13:2 While they were serving
the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart
for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”
Acts 3:3-7
3:3 When he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple courts,
he asked them for money.
3:4 Peter looked directly
at him (as did John) and said, “Look at us!”
3:5 So the lame man
paid attention to them, expecting to receive something from them.
3:6 But Peter said, “I have no silver or gold,
but what I do have I give you. In the name
of Jesus Christ
the Nazarene, stand up and
walk!”
3:7 Then
Peter
took hold
of him by the right hand and raised him up, and at once the man’s
feet and ankles were made strong.