8 Bible Verses about Crookedness

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Isaiah 45:2

I will go before thee, and make the rough places smooth; I will break in pieces the doors of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron;

Proverbs 11:3

The integrity of the upright shall guide them; But the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.

Ecclesiastes 1:15

That which is crooked cannot be made straight; and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

Deuteronomy 32:5

They have dealt corruptly with him, they are not his children, it is their blemish; They are a perverse and crooked generation.

Psalm 125:5

But as for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, Jehovah will lead them forth with the workers of iniquity. Peace be upon Israel.

Isaiah 59:8

The way of peace they know not; and there is no justice in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whosoever goeth therein doth not know peace.

Proverbs 28:18

Whoso walketh uprightly shall be delivered; But he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.

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Crookedness » Crookedness, general references to

Psalm 125:5

But as for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, Jehovah will lead them forth with the workers of iniquity. Peace be upon Israel.

Deuteronomy 32:5

They have dealt corruptly with him, they are not his children, it is their blemish; They are a perverse and crooked generation.

Isaiah 59:8

The way of peace they know not; and there is no justice in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whosoever goeth therein doth not know peace.

Crookedness » The crooked

Isaiah 40:1-4

Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem; and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she hath received of Jehovah's hand double for all her sins. The voice of one that crieth, Prepare ye in the wilderness the way of Jehovah; make level in the desert a highway for our God. read more.
Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low; and the uneven shall be made level, and the rough places a plain:

Luke 3:4-6

as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make ye ready the way of the Lord, Make his paths straight. Every valley shall be filled, And every mountain and hill shall be brought low; And the crooked shall become straight, And the rough ways smooth; And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.

Crookedness » Whose ways are crooked

Proverbs 2:11-15

Discretion shall watch over thee; Understanding shall keep thee: To deliver thee from the way of evil, From the men that speak perverse things; Who forsake the paths of uprightness, To walk in the ways of darkness; read more.
Who rejoice to do evil, And delight in the perverseness of evil; Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths:

Crookedness » Those that make crooked paths

Isaiah 59:7-8

Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths. The way of peace they know not; and there is no justice in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whosoever goeth therein doth not know peace.

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