Thematic Bible: Wickedness


Thematic Bible



For wickedness burns like a fire;
It consumes briars and thorns;
It even sets the thickets of the forest aflame
And they roll upward in a column of smoke.


For they cannot sleep unless they do evil;
And they are robbed of sleep unless they make someone stumble.


Alas, sinful nation,
People weighed down with iniquity,
Offspring of evildoers,
Sons who act corruptly!
They have abandoned the Lord,
They have despised the Holy One of Israel,
They have turned away from Him.

Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword.
They aimed bitter speech as their arrow,

wild waves of the sea, casting up their own shame like foam; wandering stars, for whom the black darkness has been reserved forever.

You love evil more than good,
Falsehood more than speaking what is right. Selah.


The wicked plots against the righteous
And gnashes at him with his teeth.

But the wicked are like the tossing sea,
For it cannot be quiet,
And its waters toss up refuse and mud.






For the arms of the wicked will be broken,
But the Lord sustains the righteous.

“Behold, My servants will shout joyfully with a glad heart,
But you will cry out with a heavy heart,
And you will wail with a broken spirit.

And all the horns of the wicked He will cut off,
But the horns of the righteous will be lifted up.

So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve Him.


Your own wickedness will correct you,
And your apostasies will reprove you;
Know therefore and see that it is evil and bitter
For you to forsake the Lord your God,
And the dread of Me is not in you,” declares the Lord God of hosts.

For wickedness burns like a fire;
It consumes briars and thorns;
It even sets the thickets of the forest aflame
And they roll upward in a column of smoke.

“Your wickedness is for a man like yourself,
And your righteousness is for a son of man.

Righteousness guards the one whose way is blameless,
But wickedness subverts the sinner.


If there is a man who marries a woman and her mother, it is immorality; both he and they shall be burned with fire, so that there will be no immorality in your midst.

"The heart is more deceitful than all else And is desperately sick; Who can understand it? "I, the LORD, search the heart, I test the mind, Even to give to each man according to his ways, According to the results of his deeds.

You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and of her daughter, nor shall you take her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter, to uncover her nakedness; they are blood relatives. It is lewdness.




"Is there yet a man in the wicked house, Along with treasures of wickedness And a short measure that is cursed? "Can I justify wicked scales And a bag of deceptive weights? "For the rich men of the city are full of violence, Her residents speak lies, And their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.


For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand outside.
I would rather stand at the threshold of the house of my God
Than dwell in the tents of wickedness.



When the righteous triumph, there is great glory,
But when the wicked rise, men hide themselves.


No man has authority to restrain the wind with the wind, or authority over the day of death; and there is no discharge in the time of war, and evil will not deliver those who practice it.


Do not profane your daughter by making her a harlot, so that the land will not fall to harlotry and the land become full of lewdness.


A man will not be established by wickedness,
But the root of the righteous will not be moved.