40 Bible Verses about wickedness
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Let the evil of the wicked come to an end. Establish the righteous, you who test the minds and hearts, O righteous God.
How horrible it will be for the wicked! Disaster will strike them. What they have done to others will be done to them.
Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning comes they do it because they are able to (it is in the power of their hands).
They eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
He said: This is Wickedness. He tossed her down into the middle of the ephah measure. He threw the weight of lead on the opening.
For the rod of the wicked shall not rest on the lot of the righteous in case the righteous put forth their hands to iniquity.
A man will not stand firm on sin. The root of the righteous will not be moved.
O Jehovah, do not give wicked people what they want. Do not let their evil plans succeed, or they will become arrogant.
I saw under the sun the place of judgment and wickedness was there. And wickedness was in the place of righteousness.
Break the arm of the wicked and evil person. Pursue his wickedness until you find no more evil.
Your wickedness affects others like you, and your righteousness, other human beings.
We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the (power of the) (under control of the) evil one.
Take away the wicked before the king, and his throne will be established in righteousness.
There is no peace for the wicked, says Jehovah.
For you are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness. No evil dwells with you!
He has turned their wickedness against them. He will destroy them because of their sins. Jehovah our God will destroy them.
I will deliver you from the hand of the wicked. I will redeem you from the grasp of the cruel.
When you warn the wicked man, and he does not turn from his wicked way; he will die because of his sin, but you will save yourself.
Jehovah saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become. Every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time.
They do not sleep unless they have done evil. Their sleep is taken away unless they make someone fall.
The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born. They speak lies.
Righteousness of the undefiled [man of integrity] directs his way! Wickedness causes the evil to fall.
One day in your courtyards is better than a thousand anywhere else. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Every morning I will destroy all the wicked people in the land to rid Jehovah's city of all troublemakers.
We should not be like Cain who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he murder him? It was because his works were evil, and his brother's were righteous.
Pray that we may be delivered (rescued) from perverse and evil men, for not all have faith.
Who will stand up for me against evildoers? Who will take his stand for me against those who do wickedness?
Hand in hand united, the wicked shall not be unpunished; but the descendants of the righteous will be delivered.
From Thematic Bible
Fire » Illustrative of » Wickedness
This wickedness is like a brushfire. It burns not only briers and thorns but the forests, too. It sends up vast clouds of smoke.
Wickedness » Characteristics of
They do not sleep unless they have done evil. Their sleep is taken away unless they make someone fall.
unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, despisers of those who are good,
Woe to the sinful nation, people heavy with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, sons who are corrupt! They have forsaken Jehovah! They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They have turned away from him.
Their words cut like swords, and their cruel remarks sting like sharp arrows.
They are wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame. They are wandering stars, for which the black darkness has been reserved forever.
Wickedness » Contrasted with the righteous
Very much pain awaits wicked people, but loving-kindness and mercy surrounds those who trust Jehovah.
Jehovah tests (examines) righteous and wicked people alike. He hates wicked people and the ones who love violence.
[There will be] tribulation and distress on every person who works evil, for the Jew first and for the Greek.
The arms of the wicked will be broken, but Jehovah sustains the righteous.
Wickedness » What wickedness does
Your own wickedness will correct you. Your apostasies (unfaithful ways) will punish you! You should know and see how evil and bitter it is for you when you abandon Jehovah your God! You do not respect (reverence) me, says the Sovereign Lord Jehovah of Hosts.
This wickedness is like a brushfire. It burns not only briers and thorns but the forests, too. It sends up vast clouds of smoke.
Your wickedness affects others like you, and your righteousness, other human beings.
Wickedness » What is wicked
When a man marries a woman and her mother, they have done a perverted thing. The man and the two women must be burned. Never do this perverted thing.
The heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately corrupt. Who can understand it? I, Jehovah, search the heart and examine the mind (inner man). I give to each man according to his ways, according to the results of his deeds.
Do not have sexual intercourse with a woman and her daughter or a woman and her granddaughter. They are related. Doing this is perverted.
Wickedness » Treasures of wickedness
Treasures of wickedness (the morally wrong) profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.
Is there a depository of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short measure that is cursed? Can I be pure with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful stone weights? The rich men are full of violence! Her inhabitants speak lies. Their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Wickedness » A large amount
One day in your courtyards is better than a thousand anywhere else. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Wickedness » The time when the wicked rise
When righteous people rejoice, there is great glory, but when wicked people rise, people hide themselves.
Wickedness » What wickedness cannot do
No man has the power to restrain the wind, to retain the breath of life. Neither does he have power in the day of death. There is no discharge from that war. Neither will wickedness deliver those who are given to it.
Wickedness » How the land becomes full of wickedness
Do not dishonor your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the country will turn to prostitution and be filled with people who are perverted.
Wickedness » Nobody being established by wickedness
A man will not stand firm on sin. The root of the righteous will not be moved.
Wickedness » The plowing of the wicked
Haughty eyes and a proud heart, and the arrogance and pride produced by the wicked are sin.
Wickedness » The lord hating wickedness
Jehovah tests (examines) righteous and wicked people alike. He hates wicked people and the ones who love violence.
Wickedness » What lies in wickedness
We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the (power of the) (under control of the) evil one.
Topics on Wickedness
Millennial Kingdom, Christ Crushes Wickedness
Isaiah 2:2-4In the last days the mountain of the house of Jehovah will be established as the highest of the mountains and exalted above the hills. All the nations will stream to it.
