86 Bible Verses about Character Of Wicked
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For men will be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, truce-breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Ye stiff-necked, and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so do ye.
Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
They only consult to cast him down from his excellence: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.
Nevertheless, they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets who testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.
The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth. The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
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 we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
Their throat is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear towards me is taught by the precept of men:
For men will be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
That ye put off concerning the former manner of life the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts:
None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.
The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
Who being past feeling have given themselves over to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and lewd men, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
And you, that were formerly alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled,
And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, who hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.
In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them who believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine to them.
For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.
And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.
That Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, Come, let us meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief.
They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
Thou shalt destroy them that speak falsehood: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.
Who, knowing the judgment of God, that they who commit such things are worthy of death; not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye 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 make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?
To you therefore who believe he is precious: but to them who are disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,
For of this sort are they who creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts;
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.
Without natural affection, truce-breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?
So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:
The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous showeth mercy, and giveth.
Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
But the house of Israel will not hearken to thee; for they will not hearken to me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hard-hearted.
They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not its ways, nor abide in its paths.
For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
For they are impudent children and obstinate in heart. I send thee to them; and thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord GOD.
The wicked are estranged from their birth: they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.
They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.
For the iniquity of his covetousness I was wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray to him?
Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread! they have not called upon God.
For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
Because that he remembered not to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.
For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.
But in my adversity they rejoiced, and assembled themselves: yes, the abjects assembled themselves against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:
Examine yourselves, whether ye are in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye are reprobates?
They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and to every good work reprobate.
And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O my enemy? And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself 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.
For the LORD had said to Moses, Say to the children of Israel, Ye are a stiff-necked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do to thee.
Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.
When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perisheth.
Let favor be shown to the wicked, yet he will not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness he will deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
Without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
For there are many disorderly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:
But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind to the unthankful and to the evil.
And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this perverse generation.
