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Want to know what the Bible says about Sarcasm? Here are 46 Bible verses about Sarcasm from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Luke 23:11 NIV
Then Herod and his soldiers ridiculed and mocked him. Dressing him in an elegant robe, they sent him back to Pilate.
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2 Corinthians 11:19 NIV
You gladly put up with fools since you are so wise!
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Job 38:5 NIV
Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know!
    Who stretched a measuring line across it?
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Nehemiah 4:1-2 NIV
4  When Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, he became angry and was greatly incensed. He ridiculed the Jews, 2 and in the presence of his associates and the army of Samaria, he said, “What are those feeble Jews doing? Will they restore their wall? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they finish in a day? Can they bring the stones back to life from those heaps of rubble —burned as they are?”
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Nehemiah 4:2-3 NIV
2 and in the presence of his associates and the army of Samaria, he said, “What are those feeble Jews doing? Will they restore their wall? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they finish in a day? Can they bring the stones back to life from those heaps of rubble —burned as they are?”
3 Tobiah the Ammonite, who was at his side, said, “What they are building—even a fox climbing up on it would break down their wall of stones!”
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1 Kings 20:11 NIV
The king of Israel answered, “Tell him: ‘One who puts on his armor should not boast like one who takes it off.’”
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Matthew 27:28-29 NIV
28 They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, 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.
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2 Kings 14:9-10 NIV
9 But Jehoash king of Israel replied to Amaziah king of Judah: “A thistle in Lebanon sent a message to a cedar in Lebanon, ‘Give your daughter to my son in marriage.’ Then a wild beast in Lebanon came along and trampled the thistle underfoot. 10 You have indeed defeated Edom and now you are arrogant. Glory in your victory, but stay at home! Why ask for trouble and cause your own downfall and that of Judah also?”
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2 Kings 18:23-24 NIV
23 “‘Come now, make a bargain with my master, the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses—if you can put riders on them! 24 How can you repulse one officer of the least of my master’s officials, even though you are depending on Egypt for chariots and horsemen ?
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Numbers 11:20 NIV
but for a whole month—until it comes out of your nostrils and you loathe it —because you have rejected the Lord, who is among you, and have wailed before him, saying, “Why did we ever leave Egypt?”’”
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Numbers 24:11 NIV
Now leave at once and go home! I said I would reward you handsomely, but the Lord has kept you from being rewarded.”
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1 Samuel 11:10 NIV
They said to the Ammonites, “Tomorrow we will surrender to you, and you can do to us whatever you like.”
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Judges 14:18 NIV
Before sunset on the seventh day the men of the town said to him,
“What is sweeter than honey?
    What is stronger than a lion?”
Samson said to them,
“If you had not plowed with my heifer,
    you would not have solved my riddle.”
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Joshua 17:15 NIV
“If you are so numerous,” Joshua answered, “and if the hill country of Ephraim is too small for you, go up into the forest and clear land for yourselves there in the land of the Perizzites and Rephaites.
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1 Samuel 17:28 NIV
When Eliab, David’s oldest brother, heard him speaking with the men, he burned with anger at him and asked, “Why have you come down here? And with whom did you leave those few sheep in the wilderness? I know how conceited you are and how wicked your heart is; you came down only to watch the battle.”
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2 Chronicles 25:18-19 NIV
18 But Jehoash king of Israel replied to Amaziah king of Judah: “A thistle in Lebanon sent a message to a cedar in Lebanon, ‘Give your daughter to my son in marriage.’ Then a wild beast in Lebanon came along and trampled the thistle underfoot. 19 You say to yourself that you have defeated Edom, and now you are arrogant and proud. But stay at home! Why ask for trouble and cause your own downfall and that of Judah also?”
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2 Corinthians 12:16 NIV
Be that as it may, I have not been a burden to you. Yet, crafty fellow that I am, I caught you by trickery!
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Jeremiah 17:9 NIV
The heart is deceitful above all things
    and beyond cure.
    Who can understand it?
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Job 12:2 NIV
“Doubtless you are the only people who matter,
    and wisdom will die with you!
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John 19:19 NIV
Pilate had a notice prepared and fastened to the cross. It read: jesus of nazareth, the king of the jews.
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