Thematic Bible: Evil people


Thematic Bible



Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?




What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?

Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?



They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

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


When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain;

Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.


They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

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


Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,


O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.


For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt.


For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it?


For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.


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?


He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.


O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.


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