Isaiah 59:6
Their webs cannot be used for clothes. They cannot cover themselves with their works for their works are evil. Their hands have committed acts of violence.
Isaiah 57:12
I will declare your righteousness and your works, yet they will not profit you.
Jeremiah 6:7
As a well pours out its water, so Jerusalem pours out her wickedness. Violence and destruction are heard in her. Sickness and wounds are ever before me.
Ezekiel 7:11
Violence has grown into a weapon for punishing wickedness. None of the people will be left. None of that crowd, none of their wealth, and nothing of value will be left.
Genesis 6:11
The earth was corrupt in God's sight. It was full of violence.
Job 8:14-15
What he trusts in is fragile and what he relies on is like a spider's web.
Psalm 58:2
No, in your heart you plot unrighteousness. You measure out the violence of your hands on the earth.
Isaiah 5:7
I am Jehovah of Hosts (All Powerful)! Israel is the vineyard, and Judah is the garden I tended with care. I had hoped for honesty and for justice, but dishonesty and cries for mercy were all I found.
Isaiah 28:18-20
Your covenant with death will be annulled. Your agreement with the grave will not stand when the overflowing scourge passes through. Then you will be trampled down by it.
Isaiah 30:1
Suffer you unwilling children, says Jehovah. You pursue a purpose that is not mine. You make a covenant sacrifice without my Spirit. You add sin to sin.
Isaiah 30:12-14
This is what the Holy One of Israel says: You have rejected this warning, trusted oppression and deceit, and you leaned upon them for support.
Isaiah 58:4
You fast for contention and strife and to strike with a wicked fist. You do not fast today to make your voice heard on high.
Isaiah 64:6
All of us have become unclean, and all our righteous acts are like permanently stained rags. All of us wither like leaves, and our sins carry us away like the wind.
Ezekiel 7:23
Prepare chains for the land is full of bloodshed and the city full of violence.
Amos 3:10
Those who store up violence and robbery in their dwellings do not know how to do what is right, declared Jehovah.
Amos 6:3
You put far away the evil day and cause the place of violence to come near.
Micah 2:1-3
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).
Micah 2:8
Lately my people have become an enemy! You strip the robe off the garment from passersby, from men returning from war.
Micah 3:1-11
I said: Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: is it not your responsibility to know justice?
Micah 6:12
The rich men are full of violence! Her inhabitants speak lies. Their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Habakkuk 1:2-4
How long, O Jehovah (YHWH), will I call for help and you do not hear? I cry out to you, save me from violence! And yet you do not save.
Zephaniah 1:9
I will punish all who worship false gods and who steal and kill in order to fill their master's house with violence.
Zephaniah 3:3-4
Her princes (rulers) within her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing till the morning.
Romans 3:20-22
No flesh will be justified before God by works of the law. Knowledge of sin comes from the law.
Romans 4:6-8
David also pronounces blessing on the man, to whom God counts righteousness apart from works,
Revelation 3:17-18
You say, I am rich and have become wealthy and have need of nothing." You do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked.