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Proverbs 22:10
Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out; yes, quarrels and insults will stop.

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Proverbs 21:24
The proud and arrogant man—“Scoffer” is his name— he works in the arrogance of pride.

Proverbs 1:22
“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

Proverbs 9:7
One who corrects a mocker invites insult. One who reproves a wicked man invites abuse.

Proverbs 9:8
Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise person, and he will love you.

Proverbs 9:9
Instruct a wise person, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous person, and he will increase in learning.

Proverbs 14:7
Stay away from a foolish man, for you won’t find knowledge on his lips.

Proverbs 15:12
A scoffer doesn’t love to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.

Proverbs 23:9
Don’t speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

Proverbs 26:4
Don’t answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him.

Proverbs 26:5
Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.

Proverbs 28:23
One who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than one who flatters with the tongue.

Proverbs 29:8
Mockers stir up a city, but wise men turn away anger.

Romans 12:17
Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men.

Romans 12:18
If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.

Galatians 6:10
So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

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Proverbs 26:20
For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.

Proverbs 26:21
As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindling strife.

Proverbs 16:28
A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.

Proverbs 15:18
A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.

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Genesis 21:9
Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.

Genesis 21:10
Therefore she said to Abraham, “Cast out this servant and her son! For the son of this servant will not be heir with my son, Isaac.”

Psalms 101:5
I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is arrogant and conceited.

Matthew 18:17
If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.

1 Corinthians 5:5
you are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

1 Corinthians 5:6
Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?

1 Corinthians 5:13
But those who are outside, God judges. “Put away the wicked man from among yourselves.”

3 John 1:9
I wrote to the assembly, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, doesn’t accept what we say.

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Proverbs 18:3
When wickedness comes, contempt also comes, and with shame comes disgrace.

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Proverbs 24:9
The schemes of folly are sin. The mocker is detested by men.

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