17 Bible Verses about The Wicked Will Perish

Wait for and expect the Lord and keep His way,
And He will exalt you to inherit the land;
[In the end] when the wicked are cut off, you will see it.

The wicked [those who live in disobedience to God’s law] are not so,
But they are like the chaff [worthless and without substance] which the wind blows away.

For the Lord knows and fully approves the way of the righteous,
But the way of the wicked shall perish.

So that light may take hold of the corners of the earth
And shake the wickedness out of it?

When I say to the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you will certainly die,’ and you do not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man will die because of his sin; but I will require his blood from your hand.

“This also will be my salvation,
For a godless man may not come before Him.

We know [according to your tradition] that God does not hear sinners; but if anyone fears God and does His will, He hears him.

Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit or have any share in the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate [by perversion], nor those who participate in homosexuality,

“There is no peace for the wicked,” says the Lord.

“There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.”

Woe (judgment is coming) to the wicked! It shall go badly with him,
For what his hand has done shall be done to him.

For those who do evil will be cut off,
But those who wait for the Lord, they will inherit the land.

For yet a little while and the wicked one will be gone [forever];
Though you look carefully where he used to be, he will not be [found].

But the wicked (ungodly) will perish,
And the enemies of the Lord will be like the glory of the pastures and like the fat of lambs [that is consumed in smoke],
They vanish—like smoke they vanish away.

“But the wicked and worthless are all to be thrown away like thorns,
Because they cannot be taken with the hand;

“Indeed, the light of the wicked will be put out,
And the flame of his fire will not shine.

“But the eyes of the wicked will fail,
And they will not escape [the justice of God];
And their hope is to breathe their last [and die].”

“For you say, ‘Where is the house of the noble man?
And where is the tent, the dwelling place of the wicked?’