26 Bible Verses about Pursuing Violence

Draw out the spear, and shut up to the meeting of them pursuing me: say to my soul, I am thy salvation.

A man of tongue shall not be prepared in the earth: a man of violence, evil shall hunt him to melt down the coverings.

Ephraim fed upon the wind, and he pursued the east wind: all the day he multiplied falsehood and destruction; and they will cut out a covenant with Assur, and oil will be brought to Egypt

For this, pride surrounded them as a neck-chain; the dress of violence will cover to them.

Blessings upon the head of the just one: and violence shall cover the mouth of the unjust

A fountain of life the mouth of the just one: and violence shall cover the mouth of the unjust

Violence rose up for a rod of injustice: not from them, not from their multitude, and not from their confusion: and nothing eminent in them.

For they ate the bread of injustice, and they will drink the wine of violences:

He drank violence, cutting off the feet, sending words by the hand of the foolish one.

From the fruit of a man's mouth he shall eat good: and the soul of the transgressing, violence.

And they knew not to do the straight, says Jehovah, storing up violence and oppression in their palaces.

Extending to the evil day, and ye will bring near the seat of violence;

For their heart will meditate destruction, and their lips will speak labor.

Also in heart ye will work evil; in the earth ye will roll the violence of your hands.

Wholly for violence shall he come: the host of their faces forwards, and he shall gather a captivity as the sand.

I saw the unjust one making afraid, and spreading abroad as a green native tree.

And he begat a rapacious son, pouring out blood and doing the likeness of one of these.

In the multitude of thy traffic they filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou wilt sin: and I shall profane thee from the mountain of God, and destroying thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.

And in these times many shall stand up against the king of the south: and the sons of the violent of thy people shall be lifted up to cause the vision to stand; and they were weak.

A woman of grace will obtain honor, and the powerful will obtain riches.

From the days of John the Immerser till now the kingdom of the heavens is achieved by force, and they committing violence seize it eagerly.

The law and the prophets until John: from then the kingdom of God announces good news, and every one is forced into it.

For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the destruction of beasts shall terrify them from the bloods of man, and the violence of the earth, of the city, and all dwelling in it.

Wo! to him building a city with bloods, and preparing a city by iniquity.

And I reviewed upon every one leaping upon the threshold in that day, filling their lords' houses with violence and deceit

For thou didst spoil many nations, all the rest of the peoples shall spoil thee; from the bloods of man, and the violence of the land, of the city, and all dwelling in it.