Thematic Bible: Character of the wicked


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Examine yourselves, whether you are in the faith; prove your own selves. Know you not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, unless you are counterfeits?

Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.



But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed at us, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that you do? will you rebel against the king?

And he spoke before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they finish in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?

Without natural affection, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;


And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.

That Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me harm.

They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and plan deceit all the day long.



The pride of your heart has deceived you, you that dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that says in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?

For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for the cursing and lying which they speak.



Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, and cast your law behind their backs, and slew your prophets who testified against them to turn them to you, and they worked great provocations.

Unto you therefore who believe he is precious: but unto them who are disobedient, the stone which the builders rejected, the same is made the head of the corner,


He sits in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places does he murder the innocent: his eyes are secretly set against the poor.






None calls for justice, nor does any plead for truth: they trust in empty words, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.








For of this sort are they who creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with various lusts,

My son, if sinners entice you, consent not. If they say, Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause: Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: read more.
We shall find all kinds of precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: Cast in your lot among us; let us all have one purse:






Hear the word of the LORD, you children of Israel: for the LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land: Because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.





And Ahab said to Elijah, Have you found me, O my enemy? And he answered, I have found you: because you have sold yourself to work evil in the sight of the LORD.

And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.





And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, who has power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.

And many other things blasphemously spoke they against him.



These are they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.





Do you thus repay the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he your father that has bought you? has he not made you, and established you?



For the iniquity of his covetousness was I angry, and struck him: I hid myself, and was angry, and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.

The way of man is perverse and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.



Let favor be showed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.






They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that does good, no, not one.


For they persecute him whom you have smitten; and they talk of the grief of those whom you have wounded.

Because he remembered not to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.






When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that there had come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.



Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the farthest corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.


That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asks, and the judge asks for a bribe; and the great man, he utters his evil desire: so they weave it together.

He that plans to do evil shall be called a mischievous person.






For the LORD had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, you are a stiff-necked people: I will come up into the midst of you in a moment, and consume you: therefore now put off your ornaments from you, that I may know what to do unto you.



They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;











What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.


They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not its ways, nor abide in its paths.



Do you thus repay the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he your father that has bought you? has he not made you, and established you?




They have corrupted themselves, their blemish is not the blemish of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.


















For they are impudent children and stubborn. I do send you unto them; and you shall say unto them, Thus says the Lord GOD.


But the house of Israel will not hearken unto you; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hard-hearted.


Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.




For they are impudent children and stubborn. I do send you unto them; and you shall say unto them, Thus says the Lord GOD.


But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:






So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish: