Mean, Surly, Unduly Harsh?
Gal 1:8-9 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any [man] preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
Gal 5:12 I would they were even cut off which trouble you.
1Ti 1:10 For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for
perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;
Heb 12:8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not
sons.
Was Paul mean, surly, or unduly harsh when he said these things? Did he violate the principles in
Matthew 5:22, Matthew 5:44, Romans 12:17-20, Colossians 4:6, Titus 3:2, 1 Timothy 3:3, 2 Timothy
2:24-25, and James 3:10?
Jam 4:4 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.
Was James mean, surly, or unduly harsh when he said these things? Did he violate the principles in
Matthew 5:22, Matthew 5:44, Romans 12:17-20, Colossians 4:6, Titus 3:2, 1 Timothy 3:3, 2 Timothy
2:24-25, and James 3:10?
2Pe 2:17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of
darkness is reserved for ever.
Was Peter mean, surly, or unduly harsh when he said these things? Did he violate the principles in
Matthew 5:22, Matthew 5:44, Romans 12:17-20, Colossians 4:6, Titus 3:2, 1 Timothy 3:3, 2 Timothy
2:24-25, and James 3:10?
Jud 1:12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without
fear: clouds [they are] without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit,
twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
Jud 1:13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved
the blackness of darkness for ever.
Was Jude mean, surly, or unduly harsh when he said these things? Did he violate the principles in
Matthew 5:22, Matthew 5:44, Romans 12:17-20, Colossians 4:6, Titus 3:2, 1 Timothy 3:3, 2 Timothy
2:24-25, and James 3:10?
Mat 6:2 Therefore when thou doest [thine] alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites
do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They
have their reward.
Mat 6:5 And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites [are]: for they love to pray standing
in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you,
They have their reward.
Mat 7:5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to
cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Mat 12:34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of
the heart the mouth speaketh.
Mat 15:7 [Ye] hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,
Mat 15:14 Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall
into the ditch.
Mat 16:3 And in the morning, [It will be] foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O [ye]
hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not [discern] the signs of the times?
Mat 22:18 But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt ye me, [ye] hypocrites?
Mat 23:13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven
against men: for ye neither go in [yourselves], neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
Mat 23:14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a
pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
Mat 23:15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one
proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
Mat 23:16 Woe unto you, [ye] blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is
nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!
Mat 23:17 [Ye] fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?
Mat 23:19 [Ye] fools and blind: for whether [is] greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?
Mat 23:23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and
cummin, and have omitted the weightier [matters] of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought
ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
Mat 23:24 [Ye] blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
Mat 23:25 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and
of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
Mat 23:26 [Thou] blind Pharisee, cleanse first that [which is] within the cup and platter, that the outside
of them may be clean also.
Mat 23:27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which
indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead [men's] bones, and of all uncleanness.
Mat 23:29 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets,
and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,
Mat 23:33 [Ye] serpents, [ye] generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
Mar 7:6 He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written,
This people honoureth me with [their] lips, but their heart is far from me.
Luk 6:42 Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye,
when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the
beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother's eye.
Luk 11:40 [Ye] fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also?
Luk 11:44 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as graves which appear not, and
the men that walk over [them] are not aware [of them].
Luk 12:20 But God said unto him, [Thou] fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose
shall those things be, which thou hast provided?
Luk 12:56 [Ye] hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do
not discern this time?
Luk 13:15 The Lord then answered him, and said, [Thou] hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the
sabbath loose his ox or [his] ass from the stall, and lead [him] away to watering?
Luk 24:25 Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:
Joh 8:44 Ye are of [your] father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from
the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he
speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Joh 8:55 Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar
like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying.
Rev 3:17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and
knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
Was Jesus Christ mean, surly, or unduly harsh when he said these things? Did he violate the principles in
Matthew 5:22, Matthew 5:44, Romans 12:17-20, Colossians 4:6, Titus 3:2, 1 Timothy 3:3, 2 Timothy
2:24-25, and James 3:10?
Is it necessarily mean, surly, unduly harsh, in violation of the principles of Matthew 5:22, Matthew 5:44,
Romans 12:17-20, Colossians 4:6, Titus 3:2, 1 Timothy 3:3, 2 Timothy 2:24-25, and James 3:10, to call
people fools, dumb, whores, harlots, dogs, hypocrites, bastards, adulterers, brutes, God-haters, sons of
adulterers, sons of whores, liars, blind, ignorant, vipers, serpents, sons of Satan?
And how about believers mocking unbelievers?
Look at what Elijah said to the prophets of Baal:
1Ki 18:27 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.
Was Elijah mean, surly, or unduly harsh when he said these things? Did he violate the principles in
Matthew 5:22, Matthew 5:44, Romans 12:17-20, Colossians 4:6, Titus 3:2, 1 Timothy 3:3, 2 Timothy
2:24-25, and James 3:10?
How about believers laughing at unbelievers?
Psa 52:1-7 Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God [endureth]
continually. Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. Thou lovest evil more
than good; [and] lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah. Thou lovest all devouring words, O
[thou] deceitful tongue. God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee
out of [thy] dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah. The righteous also shall see,
and fear, and shall laugh at him: 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.
When the righteous laugh at the wicked, is this necessarily mean, surly, unduly harsh, in violation of the
principles of Matthew 5:22, Matthew 5:44, Romans 12:17-20, Colossians 4:6, Titus 3:2, 1 Timothy 3:3, 2
Timothy 2:24-25, and James 3:10?
May we, the people of God, conduct our lives, including our words, according to the Word of God. At
times this includes mocking unbelievers. At times this includes laughing at unbelievers. At times this
includes calling unbelievers fools, dumb, whores, harlots, dogs, hypocrites, bastards, adulterers, brutes,
God-haters, sons of adulterers, sons of whores, liars, blind, ignorant, vipers, serpents, and sons of Satan.