Dictionary of Bible Themes  »  6000 Sin and salvation  »  6100 Aspects of sin  »  6169 godlessness

An outlook and lifestyle which does not acknowledge God. God frustrates the evil purposes of the godless and judges them. Believers are to guard against godlessness.

Godlessness is an outlook and lifestyle which does not acknowledge God

Psalm 14:1-3 pp Psalm 53:1-3 See also Job 35:9-10; Psalm 10:4-11; Psalm 36:1-4; Proverbs 11:9; Proverbs 30:8-9

Examples of godlessness

Judah's religious leaders:

Jeremiah 23:11-12,15-17 Hebrews 12:16 Esau

God frustrates the evil purposes of the godless

Job 8:11-19; Job 34:29-30; Psalm 9:17-20

God judges godless people and nations

Romans 1:18

The book of Job was written against a background which made no allowance for the prosperity of the godless or the misery of the godly, so no attempt is made to reconcile these things with the justice of God (as it is, for instance, in Ps 73):

Job 13:15-16; Job 15:34; Job 20:4-5; Job 27:8-10; Job 36:8-13 Psalm 50:16-22; Isaiah 10:6; Isaiah 33:13-14

Believers are to guard against godlessness

Jude 3-23 See also 1 Timothy 4:7; Timothy 6:20-21

Jesus Christ will turn godlessness away from Israel

Romans 11:26-27

See also

1095  God, patience of
6020  sin
6154  fall, the
6231  rejection of God
8265  godliness
8702  agnosticism
8704  apostasy
8710  atheism
8712  denial of Christ
8764  forgetting God
8768  idolatry
8846  ungodliness