Thematic Bible: Character of the wicked


Thematic Bible



Test yourselves [to see] if you are in the faith. Examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize regarding yourselves that Jesus Christ [is] in you, unless you are unqualified? Verse ConceptsAcademicsFellowship With ChristComplacencyProving, Through TestingTestingUnion With Christ, Significance OfCharacter Of WickedSelf ExaminationExamining YourselfJudging OurselvesThe FaithBelieving In YourselfTestsexams

And {just as} Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these oppose the truth, people corrupted in mind, disqualified concerning the faith. Verse ConceptsFalse Teachers, Characteristics OfMind, The HumanCharacter Of WickedReprobatesThoughts Of The WickedThe FaithThose Against TruthAgainst The Truth


But Sanballat the Horonite, the Ammonite servant Tobiah, and Geshem the Arab heard it, and they mocked and despised us, saying, "What is this thing that you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?" Verse ConceptsContempt, Examples OfLaughterMockeryRebellion, Against Human AuthorityRidicule, Nature OfSpeech, Negative Aspects OfCharacter Of Wicked

Then he said before his brothers and the army of Samaria, "What are the feeble Jews doing? Will they restore [these things] for themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish it in a day? Will they revive the stones from the piles of rubble--even those burned up?" Verse ConceptsJudaismCharacter Of WickedFeeblenessAnti semitismShort Time For Action

hardhearted, irreconcilable, slanderous, without self-control, savage, with no interest for what is good, traitors, reckless, conceited, loving pleasure rather than loving God,

So all of them plotted together to come fight against Jerusalem and to make trouble for it. Verse ConceptsAliancesConspiraciesCharacter Of WickedDisturbanceConspiracy

Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, "Come and let us meet together in [one of] the villages in the plain of Ono." But they planned to do evil to me. Verse ConceptsTreacheryCharacter Of WickedMischiefMeeting People

Those who seek my life lay snares as well, and those intent on my harm speak threats. They also plot deceit all day. Verse ConceptsDeception In Fallen Human NaturePersecution, Forms OfEvil PlansTrapCharacter Of WickedMan TrappingAll DayAttempting To Kill Me


The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of a rock, the heights of its dwelling, [you who] say in your heart: 'Who can bring me down [to the] ground?'

[By] the sin of their mouth [and] the words of their lips, even in their pride, let them be trapped, and for [the] curses and lies they proclaim. Verse ConceptsEvil SpeakingLipsCharacter Of WickedThe Proud Will Be AbasedUngodly CursingPrideSwearingcurses


"But they rebelled and were rebellious against you and cast your law behind their back and killed your prophets, who had warned them to turn back to you, and they did great blasphemies. Verse Conceptsencouragement, examples ofdisrespectChallengesIngratitudeMartyrdom, Examples OfMartyrdom, Reasons ForUnfaithfulness, To GodCharacter Of WickedRebellion Against God, Nature OfRebellion Against God, Shown InKilling ProphetsBreaking God's Law

Therefore the honor [is] for you who believe, but for those who refuse to believe, "The stone that the builders rejected, this one has become {the cornerstone}," Verse ConceptsCornerstonesArchitectureMasonsOccupationsUnbelief, As Response To GodChurch, Christ Authority OverCharacter Of WickedCapstoneLove For GodBuildersChrist The RockNot Believing In JesusPrecious

He sits in ambush in villages; in the hiding places he kills [the] innocent. His eyes {lurk} for [the] helpless. Verse ConceptsSecrecyWaitingWatchfulness, Of BelieversCharacter Of WickedHelplessnessLooking At People For EvilJudged As Murderersrehabilitation




They only plan to thrust [him] down from his high position; they are pleased [with] deception. With their mouths they bless, but {inwardly} they curse. Selah Verse ConceptsFlatteryDeceitful HeartsDelighting, Wrong Kinds OfHeart, Fallen And RedeemedSpeech, Negative Aspects OfCharacter Of WickedDeceitful TonguesPsalm InterjectionsThose Who Are LiarsUngodly CursingExcellenceSmiling

There is nobody {who pleads with} justice, and there is nobody who judges with honesty. They rely on nothing and speak vanity. They conceive trouble and beget iniquity; Verse ConceptsemptinessUnreliabilityCharacter Of Wicked





For from these are those who slip into houses and captivate foolish women loaded down with sins, led by various kinds of desires, Verse ConceptsLicentiousnessCharacter Of WickedCaptivesHeavy BurdensWeak WomenProblem Peoplevulnerabilityimpulsivenessworms

My child, if sinners entice you, do not consent. If they say, "Come with us! We shall lie in wait for blood; we shall ambush the innocent without cause. Like Sheol, we will swallow them alive and whole, {like those who descend to the pit}. read more.
We shall find all precious wealth, we shall fill our houses [with] booty, you shall throw your lot in our midst, there will be one purse for all of us."




Hear the word of Yahweh, children of Israel, for Yahweh has an indictment against the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or loyalty, there is no knowledge of God in the land. Verse ConceptsLitigationForgetting GodFaithfulness, To GodProphecy, Methods Of OtWord Of GodCharacter Of WickedNot Knowing GodPeople Without Mercy



Then Ahab said to Elijah, "Have you found me, my enemy?" He said, "I have found you because you have sold yourself to do evil in the eyes of Yahweh. Verse ConceptsBuying and sellingGrudgesCharacter Of WickedCourage, Examples OfFinding People

They made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire, they practiced divination and read omens, and they sold themselves to do evil in the eyes of Yahweh to provoke him. Verse ConceptsFalse ReligionChild sacrificeProvoking GodConsultationsPagan PracticesCharacter Of WickedDivinationmagicwitches



And people were burned up [by the] great heat, and they blasphemed the name of God who has the authority over these plagues, and they did not repent to give him glory. Verse ConceptsCurses, HumanHardened HeartsHeart, Fallen And RedeemedHeatCharacter Of WickedScorchingProfaning God's NameBlasphemyGod Showed His PowerWeather In The Last DaysweatherNot Glorifying God

And they were saying many other [things] against him, reviling [him]. Verse ConceptsBlasphemy, Examples OfCharacter Of Wicked


These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly, not having the Spirit. Verse ConceptsInstinctLiving For The MaterialWithout Godnatural LifeEmotionsGoing To Churchdivision



[Like] this do you treat Yahweh, foolish and {unwise} people? [Has] he not, your father, created you? He made you, and he established you. Verse ConceptsGod, Fatherhood OfGiving, Of OneselfFolly, Examples OfClaimsIngratitudeMetaphorsPeople Of God, In OtCharacter Of WickedIngratitude To GodFoolish PeopleCreation Of All Mankind


I was angry because of his sin of gain, and I struck him; I hid and I was angry, but he walked apostate, in the ways of his heart. Verse ConceptsCoveting, prohibition ofSin, Nature OfCharacter Of WickedHow Sin Comes With AfflictionsGod HidingCovetousnessGreed

Crooked is the way of a man and a foreigner, but the pure [is] upright [in] his conduct. Verse ConceptsInnocence, Teaching OnCharacter Of WickedDeviousnessTwisted WaysPure People


[Though the] wicked person is shown compassion, he does not learn righteousness; he acts unjustly in [the] land [of] uprightness, and he does not see the majesty of Yahweh. Verse ConceptsGod, Majesty OfGrace, In OtCharacter Of WickedNot Seeing Spiritual ThingsContinuing In Sin




All have turned aside together; they have become worthless; [There] is no one who practices kindness; [there] is not even one. Verse ConceptsCharacter Of WickedPeople Going AstrayUseless PeopleNot Going GoodNo One Available

because they persecute [those] whom you, yourself, have struck, and they tell of the pain of [those] you have wounded. Verse ConceptsCharacter Of WickedPersecution, Nature OfGod Beating PeopleHurtharassment

because he did not remember to show loyal love, but he pursued anyone, poor or needy or brokenhearted, to slay [them]. Verse ConceptsBrokennessdiscouragementKindnessUnkindnessCharacter Of WickedPersecutionA Broken HeartBroken Heartsheartbrokenharassment




But when Sanballat the Horonite and the Ammonite servant Tobiah heard [this], {they were greatly displeased} that a person had come to seek the welfare of the {Israelites}. Verse Conceptsenemies, of Israel and JudahCharacter Of WickedEnvy, Example OfMalice, Examples OfThe Ungodly Suffering


Egypt, Judah, and Edom, and the {Ammonites}, and Moab, and all those who are trimmed to [the] side, those who live in the desert, for all the nations [are] uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel [are] uncircumcised of heart." Verse ConceptsCharacter Of WickedLiving In The WildernessCutting HairUncircumcised In Heart

Their hands [are] upon evil, to do [it] well; the official and the judge ask for the bribe, and the great [man] utters the evil desire of his soul; and they weave [it] together. Verse ConceptsGiftsAliancesAmbition, negative aspects ofWicked RulersJudgesPower, HumanReward, HumanSkillRulers, WickedCharacter Of WickedGuileAmbidextrousTwo Of Body PartsContinuing In SinLording It

He who plans to do evil for himself, they will call [him] "master of mischief." Verse ConceptsIntentionsEvil PlansCharacter Of WickedEvil Devices




And Yahweh said to Moses, "Say to the {Israelites}, 'You [are] a stiff-necked people; [if] one moment I were to go up among you, I would destroy you. And now take down your ornaments from on you, and I will {decide} what I will do to you." Verse ConceptsNecksCharacter Of WickedCosmeticsPeople Stripping OffGod Might Kill His Peoplejewelry









Who [is] Shaddai that we should serve him, or what would we benefit when we plead with him?' Verse ConceptsPrayerlessnessProfitsSkepticismCharacter Of WickedWho Is God?Serving God

Do not evildoers know, [they] who eat my people [as though] they were eating bread? They do not call on God. Verse ConceptsEating, Metaphorical UseCalling upon GodPrayer, Practicalities OfCharacter Of WickedEvildoersNot PrayingThose Who Were Ignorant

"Those are among [the ones] rebelling [against the] light; they do not recognize his ways, and they do not stay in his paths. Verse ConceptsBeing A LightCharacter Of WickedRebellion Against God, Shown InPaths Of The WickedPurgatory


[Like] this do you treat Yahweh, foolish and {unwise} people? [Has] he not, your father, created you? He made you, and he established you. Verse ConceptsGod, Fatherhood OfGiving, Of OneselfFolly, Examples OfClaimsIngratitudeMetaphorsPeople Of God, In OtCharacter Of WickedIngratitude To GodFoolish PeopleCreation Of All Mankind


They [have] behaved corruptly toward him; [they are] not his children; [this is] their flaw, a generation crooked and perverse. Verse ConceptsGenerationsSin, Nature OfCharacter Of WickedEvil GenerationsCrookednessIsrael As Sons Of GodTwisted Ways









And the children [are] {impudent} and {stubborn}, [and so] I am sending you to them, and you must say to them, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh!' Verse ConceptsLordship, Human And DivineWord Of GodApathyHeart, Of Unregenerate PeopleCharacter Of WickedSpeaking As From GodDisunity

And the house of Israel, they are not willing to listen to you, for they [are] not willing to listen to me, for all of the house of Israel is hard of forehead, and they [are] hard of heart. Verse ConceptsFools, In Teaching Of Jesus ChristFools, Characteristics OfIndifferenceListeningCharacter Of WickedNature Of The HeartValidly Like God

Their feet run to evil, and they hasten to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts [are] thoughts of iniquity; devastation and destruction [are] in their highways. Verse ConceptsFeetevil, origins ofInnocence, Teaching OnCharacter Of WickedInnocent BloodSheddingPaths Of The WickedDestructionThoughts Of The WickedReady To Kill


And the children [are] {impudent} and {stubborn}, [and so] I am sending you to them, and you must say to them, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh!' Verse ConceptsLordship, Human And DivineWord Of GodApathyHeart, Of Unregenerate PeopleCharacter Of WickedSpeaking As From GodDisunity

But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered together; smiters whom I did not know gathered against me. They tore and did not cease. Verse ConceptsUnkindnessCharacter Of WickedPitilessnessPitilessness CondemnedPeople StumblingNot Knowing PeopleRejoicing In Evil



So [are] the paths of all who forget God; and [the] hope of [the] godless will perish, Verse ConceptsHope, Of The WickedFalse HopesCharacter Of Wicked