8 Bible Verses about Crookedness

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Isaiah 45:2

I will go before thee and make the crooked places straight; I will break in pieces the gates of bronze and cut in sunder the bars of iron:

Proverbs 11:3

The perfection of the upright shall guide them in the way, but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.

Ecclesiastes 1:15

That which is crooked cannot be made straight, and that which is lacking cannot be numbered.

Deuteronomy 32:5

They have corrupted themselves, their spot is that they are not his sons; they are a perverse and crooked generation.

Psalm 125:5

As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall take them away with the workers of iniquity; and peace shall be upon Israel.

Isaiah 59:8

The way of peace they did not know; nor is there anything straight about their ways; they have wilfully made themselves crooked paths; whosoever goes therein shall not know peace.

Proverbs 28:18

Whosoever walks in integrity shall be saved, but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall into one of them.

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Crookedness » Crookedness, general references to

Psalm 125:5

As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall take them away with the workers of iniquity; and peace shall be upon Israel.

Deuteronomy 32:5

They have corrupted themselves, their spot is that they are not his sons; they are a perverse and crooked generation.

Isaiah 59:8

The way of peace they did not know; nor is there anything straight about their ways; they have wilfully made themselves crooked paths; whosoever goes therein shall not know peace.

Crookedness » The crooked

Isaiah 40:1-4

Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye according to the heart of Jerusalem and cry unto her that her time is now fulfilled that her iniquity is pardoned; for she has received of the LORD's hand double for all her sins. The voice of him that cries in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD; make straight 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 crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places made plain:

Luke 3:4-6

as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye 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 ways shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth; and all flesh shall see the saving health of God.

Crookedness » Whose ways are crooked

Proverbs 2:11-15

discretion shall preserve thee, intelligence shall keep thee to deliver thee from the evil way, from the man that speaks perversion, who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness, read more.
who rejoice to do evil and delight in wicked perversion, whose ways are crooked, and they are crooked 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; wasting and destruction are their paths. The way of peace they did not know; nor is there anything straight about their ways; they have wilfully made themselves crooked paths; whosoever goes therein shall not know peace.

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