40 Bible Verses about wickedness
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O let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the just. For the righteous God tries the minds and hearts.
Woe to those who plot wickedness and prepare evil on their beds! When the morning is light they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
Hide me from the council of those who injure, from the rebelling of the workers of iniquity,
For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
And he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah. And he cast the lead stone over its opening.
For the rod of the wicked shall not rest on the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands to iniquity.
A man shall not be established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
O Jehovah, do not grant the desires of the wicked; do not help his wicked plans, lest they praise themselves. Selah.
And again I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.
But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
Break the arm of the wicked and the evil one; seek out his wickedness, until You find none.
Your wickedness may hurt a man like yourself; and your righteousness may profit the son of man.
Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be founded in righteousness.
There is no peace, says Jehovah, to the wicked.
Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hides it under his tongue;
For You are not a God that enjoys wickedness; nor shall evil dwell with You.
And He will bring on them their own iniquity, and He will cut them off in their evil. Jehovah our God shall cut them off.
To work out evil devices is as laughter to a fool; so wisdom is to a man of understanding.
And I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem you out of the hand of the evil ones.
Yet if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.
And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
For they do not sleep, except when they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away unless they cause some to fall.
When the wicked comes, scorn also comes, and with shame comes reproach.
The righteousness of the perfect shall make his way right, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than dwell in the tents of wickedness.
I will early destroy all the wicked of the land, so that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of Jehovah.
not as Cain who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. And for what did he kill him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's things were righteous.
And pray that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men; for all do not have the faith.
Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? Who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?
Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be innocent; but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.
From Thematic Bible
Fire » Illustrative of » Wickedness
For wickedness burns like the fire; it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall roll upwards like the lifting up of smoke.
Wickedness » Characteristics of
For they do not sleep, except when they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away unless they cause some to fall.
without natural affection, unyielding, false accusers, without self-control, savage, despisers of good,
Woe, sinful nation, a people heavy with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, sons who corrupt! They have forsaken Jehovah; they have provoked the Holy One of Israel to anger; they have gone away backward.
who sharpen their tongue like a sword, they tread their arrows, even a bitter word,
wild waves of the sea foaming up their shames; wandering stars for whom blackness of darkness has been kept forever.
Wickedness » Contrasted with the righteous
Jehovah tries the righteous; but His soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence,
tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man who has worked out evil; of the Jew first, and also of the Greek.
For the arms of the wicked shall be broken; but Jehovah upholds the righteous.
Wickedness » What wickedness does
Your own evil shall correct you, and your backslidings shall reprove you, therefore know and see that it is an evil and bitter thing that you have forsaken Jehovah your God, and that My fear is not in you, says the Lord Jehovah of Hosts.
For wickedness burns like the fire; it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall roll upwards like the lifting up of smoke.
Your wickedness may hurt a man like yourself; and your righteousness may profit the son of man.
Wickedness » What is wicked
And if a man takes a wife and her mother, it is wickedness. They shall be burned with fire, both he and they, so that there may be no wickedness among you.
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it? I Jehovah search the heart, I try the reins, even to give to each man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, neither shall you undertake to uncover her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter. They are her near kinswomen; it is wickedness.
Wickedness » Treasures of wickedness
Are the treasures of wickedness still in the house of the wicked, and the short measure that is hateful? Shall I count those with the wicked scales pure, and those with the bag of deceitful weights? For its rich men are full of violence, and its people have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Wickedness » A large amount
For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Wickedness » The time when the wicked rise
When the righteous rejoice, there is great glory; but when the wicked rise, a man is hidden.
Wickedness » What wickedness cannot do
There is no man who has power over the spirit to keep the spirit; nor power in the day of death; and there is no discharge in that war; nor shall wickedness deliver its owners.
Wickedness » How the land becomes full of wickedness
You shall not prostitute your daughter, to cause her to be a whore, lest the land go whoring, and the land become full of wickedness.
Wickedness » Nobody being established by wickedness
A man shall not be established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
Wickedness » The plowing of the wicked
Wickedness » The lord hating wickedness
Jehovah tries the righteous; but His soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence,
Wickedness » What lies in wickedness
Topics on Wickedness
Millennial Kingdom, Christ Crushes Wickedness
Isaiah 2:2-4And it shall be, in the last days the mountain of Jehovah's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow into it.
