86 Bible Verses about Character Of Wicked
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For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
“They have acted corruptly toward Him,
They are not His children, because of their defect;
But are a perverse and crooked generation.
being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips,
For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.”
They are corrupt, they have committed abominable deeds;
There is no one who does good.
“You men who are stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears are always resisting the Holy Spirit; you are doing just as your fathers did.
Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith.
They have counseled only to thrust him down from his high position;
They delight in falsehood;
They bless with their mouth,
But inwardly they curse. Selah.
“But they became disobedient and rebelled against You,
And cast Your law behind their backs
And killed Your prophets who had admonished them
So that they might return to You,
And they committed great blasphemies.
In pride the wicked hotly pursue the afflicted;
Let them be caught in the plots which they have devised.
For the wicked boasts of his heart’s desire,
And the greedy man curses and spurns the Lord.
The wicked, in the haughtiness of his countenance, does not seek Him.
All his thoughts are, “There is no 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.
For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.
“Their throat is an open grave,
With their tongues they keep deceiving,”
“The poison of asps is under their lips”;
Then the Lord said,
“Because this people draw near with their words
And honor Me with their lip service,
But they remove their hearts far from Me,
And their reverence for Me consists of tradition learned by rote,
For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
that, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit,
No one sues righteously and no one pleads honestly.
They trust in confusion and speak lies;
They conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity.
For You are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness;
No evil dwells with You.
The wicked, in the haughtiness of his countenance, does not seek Him.
All his thoughts are, “There is no God.”
and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.
But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”
being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;
And although you were formerly alienated and hostile in mind, engaged in evil deeds,
Men were scorched with fierce heat; and they blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues, and they did not repent so as to give Him glory.
in whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
For the wicked boasts of his heart’s desire,
And the greedy man curses and spurns the Lord.
Even those who trust in their wealth
And boast in the abundance of their riches?
All of them conspired together to come and fight against Jerusalem and to cause a disturbance in it.
then Sanballat and Geshem sent a message to me, saying, “Come, let us meet together at Chephirim in the plain of Ono.” But they were planning to harm me.
Those who seek my life lay snares for me;
And those who seek to injure me have threatened destruction,
And they devise treachery all day long.
They covet fields and then seize them,
And houses, and take them away.
They rob a man and his house,
A man and his inheritance.
You destroy those who speak falsehood;
The Lord abhors the man of bloodshed and deceit.
and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.
But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard it, they mocked us and despised us and said, “What is this thing you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”
He spoke in the presence of his brothers and the wealthy men of Samaria and said, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Are they going to restore it for themselves? Can they offer sacrifices? Can they finish in a day? Can they revive the stones from the dusty rubble even the burned ones?”
This precious value, then, is for you who believe; but for those who disbelieve,
“The stone which the builders rejected,
This became the very corner stone,”
For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses,
When Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official heard about it, it was very displeasing to them that someone had come to seek the welfare of the sons of Israel.
The wicked flee when no one is pursuing,
But the righteous are bold as a lion.
A man of violence entices his neighbor
And leads him in a way that is not good.
unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,
“Do you thus repay the Lord,
O foolish and unwise people?
Is not He your Father who has bought you?
He has made you and established you.
The boastful shall not stand before Your eyes;
You hate all who do iniquity.
“So are the paths of all who forget God;
And the hope of the godless will perish,
The wicked borrows and does not pay back,
But the righteous is gracious and gives.
whose end is destruction, whose god is their appetite, and whose glory is in their shame, who set their minds on earthly things.
yet the house of Israel will not be willing to listen to you, since they are not willing to listen to Me. Surely the whole house of Israel is stubborn and obstinate.
“Others have been with those who rebel against the light;
They do not want to know its ways
Nor abide in its paths.
For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.
treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so,
holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.
Listen to the word of the Lord, O sons of Israel,
For the Lord has a case against the inhabitants of the land,
Because there is no faithfulness or kindness
Or knowledge of God in the land.
dealing out retribution to those who do not know God and to those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
I am sending you to them who are stubborn and obstinate children, and you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God.’
A righteous man hates falsehood,
But a wicked man acts disgustingly and shamefully.
The wicked are estranged from the womb;
These who speak lies go astray from birth.
Concerning evil, both hands do it well.
The prince asks, also the judge, for a bribe,
And a great man speaks the desire of his soul;
So they weave it together.
He sits in the lurking places of the villages;
In the hiding places he kills the innocent;
His eyes stealthily watch for the unfortunate.
The way of a guilty man is crooked,
But as for the pure, his conduct is upright.
“Because of the iniquity of his unjust gain I was angry and struck him;
I hid My face and was angry,
And he went on turning away, in the way of his heart.
‘Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him,
And what would we gain if we entreat Him?’
Have the workers of wickedness no knowledge,
Who eat up My people as though they ate bread
And have not called upon God?
For they have persecuted him whom You Yourself have smitten,
And they tell of the pain of those whom You have wounded.
Because he did not remember to show lovingkindness,
But persecuted the afflicted and needy man,
And the despondent in heart, to put them to death.
On account of the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips,
Let them even be caught in their pride,
And on account of curses and lies which they utter.
But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered themselves together;
The smiters whom I did not know gathered together against me,
They slandered me without ceasing.
Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you—unless indeed you fail the test?
They profess to know God, but by their deeds they deny Him, being detestable and disobedient and worthless for any good deed.
Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, O my enemy?” And he answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do evil in the sight of the Lord.
Then they made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire, and practiced divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking Him.
For the Lord had said to Moses, “Say to the sons of Israel, ‘You are an obstinate people; should I go up in your midst for one moment, I would destroy you. Now therefore, put off your ornaments from you, that I may know what I shall do with you.’”
Egypt and Judah, and Edom and the sons of Ammon, and Moab and all those inhabiting the desert who clip the hair on their temples; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised of heart.”
When a wicked man dies, his expectation will perish,
And the hope of strong men perishes.
Though the wicked is shown favor,
He does not learn righteousness;
He deals unjustly in the land of uprightness,
And does not perceive the majesty of the Lord.
All have turned aside, together they have become useless;
There is none who does good,
There is not even one.”
For there are many rebellious men, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He Himself is kind to ungrateful and evil men.
And with many other words he solemnly testified and kept on exhorting them, saying, “Be saved from this perverse generation!”
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