14 Bible Verses about Lawlessness

delivered up through God's settled purpose and foreknowledge--you by the hands of Gentiles have nailed to a cross and have put to death.

The Son of Man will commission His angels, and they will gather out of His Kingdom all causes of sin and all who violate His laws;

Do not come into close association with unbelievers, like oxen yoked with asses. For what is there in common between righteousness and lawlessness? Or what partnership has light with darkness?

Every one who is guilty of sin is also guilty of violating Law; for sin is the violation of Law.

and because of the prevalent disregard of God's law the love of the great majority will grow cold;

(For their lawless deeds were torture, day after day, to the pure soul of that righteous man--all that he saw and heard whilst living in their midst.)

"Listen, Israelites, to what I say. Jesus, the Nazarene, a man accredited to you from God by miracles and marvels and signs which God did among you through Him, as you yourselves know, Him--

For lawlessness is already at work in secret; but only until the man who is now exercising a restraining influence is removed,

"Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you are just like whitewashed sepulchres, the outside of which pleases the eye, though inside they are full of dead men's bones and of all that is unclean. The same is true of you: outwardly you seem to the human eye to be good and honest men, but, within, you are full of insincerity and disregard of God's Law.

and remembers that a law is not enacted to control a righteous man, but for the lawless and rebellious, the irreligious and sinful, the godless and profane--for those who strike their fathers or their mothers, for murderers,

"Blessed," he says, "are those whose iniquities have been forgiven, and whose sins have been covered over.

who gave Himself for us to purchase our freedom from all iniquity, and purify for Himself a people who should be specially His own, zealous for doing good works.

Because I will be merciful to their wrongdoings, and their sins I will remember no longer.'"

He adds, "And their sins and offences I will remember no longer."