'Iniquity' in the Bible

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.

I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.

For thy name's sake, O LORD, pardon mine iniquity; for it is great.

Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.

For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.

I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful.

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.

He devises iniquity on his bed and is determined to follow a path that is not good. He does not resist evil.

There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise.

{A Psalm of David.} Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.

For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.

When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.

And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.

Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?

Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

{To the chief Musician upon Mahalath, Maschil, A Psalm of David.} The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.

Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.

Day and night they prowl around its walls; evil and iniquity are within it.

Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down the people, O God.

Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.

And Thou, Jehovah, God of Hosts, God of Israel, Awake to inspect all the nations. Favour not any treacherous dealers of iniquity. Selah.

Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:

My acts of iniquity they overwhelm me! Our transgressions you blot them out!

If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:

Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.

But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.

Don't charge us for previous iniquity, but let your compassion come quickly to us, for we have been brought very low.

Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin. Selah.

Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.

When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:

For, lo, thine enemies, O LORD, for, lo, thine enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.

How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?

Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?

Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?

And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the LORD our God shall cut them off.

Every morning I will destroy all the wicked of the land, eliminating everyone who practices iniquity from the LORD's city. A prayer by the afflicted man who is overwhelmed and talks about his troubles with the LORD.

who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases,

He neither deals with us according to our sins, nor repays us equivalent to our iniquity.

We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.

Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.

The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.

Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.

Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.

For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity.

As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.

Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.

Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.

A man of worthlessness, a man of iniquity, Walking with perverseness of mouth,

The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.

The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them; But the treacherous shall be taken in their own iniquity.

When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish; And the hope of iniquity perisheth.

No iniquity is desired by the righteous, And the wicked have been full of evil.

By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil.

An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity.

It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.

He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.

So -- the way of an adulterous woman, She hath eaten and hath wiped her mouth, And hath said, 'I have not done iniquity.'

And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.

Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.

Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.

When you spread out your hands in prayer, I'll hide my eyes from you. Even though you pray repeatedly, I won't listen. Your hands are full of blood, your fingers drenched with iniquity."

Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:

And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.

Woe to those decreeing decrees of iniquity, And writers who have prescribed perverseness.

And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.

And it was revealed in mine ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.

For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.

For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:

Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.

Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.

For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.

Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD'S hand double for all her sins.

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Forsake doth the wicked his way, And the man of iniquity his thoughts, And he returneth to Jehovah, and He pitieth him, And unto our God for He multiplieth to pardon.

For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.

None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.

Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.

"For I, the LORD, love justice, and I hate robbery and iniquity; I will faithfully present your reward and make an everlasting covenant with you.

No one calls on Your name,striving to take hold of You.For You have hidden Your face from usand made us melt because of our iniquity.

Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.

Whoso slaughtereth the ox smiteth a man, Whoso sacrificeth the lamb beheadeth a dog, Whoso is bringing up a present -- The blood of a sow, Whoso is making mention of frankincense, Is blessing iniquity. Yea, they have fixed on their own ways, And in their abominations their soul hath delighted.

Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?

For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.

Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD.

And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.

And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, and thy heels made bare.

Thus saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the LORD doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.

We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.

And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?

For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.