Bible Verses About Sarcasm
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for sarcasm, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,228 votes, led by Proverbs 26:18-19. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Sarcasm
Proverbs 26:18-19273 votes
As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death,
Ephesians 4:29240 votes
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
Ephesians 5:4213 votes
Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.
Matthew 5:37205 votes
But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
Proverbs 18:21113 votes
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
1 Kings 18:2795 votes
And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
Proverbs 12:1885 votes
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
Proverbs 26:1679 votes
The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.
Genesis 4:973 votes
And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother’s keeper?
James 3:1-1863 votes
My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
1 Timothy 4:759 votes
But refuse profane and old wives’ fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.
Exodus 14:1140 votes
And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt?
John 19:335 votes
And said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they smote him with their hands.
Judges 10:1433 votes
Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation.
Ezekiel 2:632 votes
And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.
Ephesians 4:1525 votes
But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
Acts 26:2823 votes
Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.
Job 12:2-322 votes
No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
Luke 23:1121 votes
And Herod with his men of war set him at nought, and mocked him, and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him again to Pilate.
Job 11:1219 votes
For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass’s colt.
Galatians 5:1218 votes
I would they were even cut off which trouble you.
Judges 9:7-1917 votes
And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said unto them, Hearken unto me, ye men of Shechem, that God may hearken unto you.
Nehemiah 4:1-217 votes
But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews.
Nehemiah 4:2-317 votes
And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?
Matthew 27:28-2917 votes
And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe.
What does the Bible say about sarcasm?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 26:18-19 on the subject of sarcasm. Across 2,228 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Ephesians 4:29, Ephesians 5:4, Matthew 5:37. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.