Thematic Bible: Wickedness


Thematic Bible



For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.


For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.


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.

Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:

Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.


The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.

But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.






For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD upholdeth the righteous.

Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit.

All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.

Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.


Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.

For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.

Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.

Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.


And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, neither shalt thou take her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; for they are her near kinswomen: it is wickedness.




Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable? Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights? For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.


For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.



When righteous men do rejoice, there is great glory: but when the wicked rise, a man is hidden.


There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.


Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.


A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.








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