Thematic Bible: Character of the wicked


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Test your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or do you not know as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you??unless indeed you are disqualified.

Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so do these also oppose the truth; men corrupted in mind, reprobate concerning the faith.



But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they ridiculed us, and despised us, and said, "What is this thing that you are doing? Will you rebel against the king?"

He spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria, and said, "What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, since they are burned?"

unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, hateful of good, traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;


and they conspired all of them together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion therein.

that Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, "Come, let us meet together at Ha-Kephirim in the plain of Ono." But they intended to harm me.

They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.



The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, 'Who will bring me down to the ground?'

For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.



"Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, and cast your law behind their back, and killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.

For you who believe therefore is the honor, but for those who do not believe, "The stone which the builders rejected, has become the chief cornerstone,"


He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.






None sues in righteousness, and none pleads in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.








For of these are those who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,

My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent. If they say, "Come with us, Let's lie in wait for blood; let's lurk secretly for the innocent without cause; let's swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit. read more.
We'll find all valuable wealth. We'll fill our houses with spoil. You shall cast your lot among us. We'll all have one purse."






Hear the word of the LORD, you children of Israel; for the LORD has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: "Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.





Ahab said to Elijah, "Have you found me, my enemy?" He answered, "I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in the sight of the LORD.

They caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, practiced divination and sorcery, and sold themselves to do that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.





People were scorched with great heat, and they blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues. They did not repent and give him glory.

They spoke many other things against him, insulting him.



These are they who cause divisions, and are sensual, not having the Spirit.





Do you thus requite the LORD, foolish people and unwise? Isn't he your father who has bought you? He has made you, and established you.



For the iniquity of his covetousness was I angry, and struck him; I hid myself and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.

The way of the guilty is devious, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.



Let favor be shown to the wicked, yet he will not learn righteousness. In the land of uprightness he will deal wrongfully, and will not see the LORD's majesty.






They have all turned aside. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, there is not even one."


For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.

because he did not remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, the broken in heart, to kill them.






When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly, because a man had come to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.



Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that have the corners of their hair cut off, who dwell in the wilderness; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart."


Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.

One who plots to do evil will be called a schemer.






The LORD said to Moses, "Tell the children of Israel, 'You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go up into your midst for one moment, I would consume you. Therefore now take off your jewelry from you, that I may know what to do to you.'"














What is Shaddai, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?'

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call on God?


"These are of those who rebel against the light. They do not know its ways, nor abide in its paths.



Do you thus requite the LORD, foolish people and unwise? Isn't he your father who has bought you? He has made you, and established you.




They have dealt corruptly with him. They are not his children, because of their defect. They are a perverse and crooked generation.


















The children are obstinate and hardhearted. I am sending you to them, and you shall tell them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD.'


But the house of Israel will not listen to you; for they will not listen to me: for all the house of Israel are obstinate and hard-hearted.


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




The children are obstinate and hardhearted. I am sending you to them, and you shall tell them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD.'


But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I did not know it. They tore at me, and did not cease.






So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man shall perish,