86 Bible Verses about Character Of Wicked
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For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
They have dealt corruptly with him; they are no longer his children because they are blemished; they are a crooked and twisted generation.
They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,
The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds, there is none who does good.
"You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you.
Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind and disqualified regarding the faith.
They only plan to thrust him down from his high position. They take pleasure in falsehood. They bless with their mouths, but inwardly they curse. Selah
Shall I acquit the man with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful weights?
"Nevertheless, they were disobedient and rebelled against you and cast your law behind their back and killed your prophets, who had warned them in order to turn them back to you, and they committed great blasphemies.
In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the poor; let them be caught in the schemes that they have devised. For the wicked boasts of the desires of his soul, and the one greedy for gain curses and renounces the LORD. In the pride of his face the wicked does not seek him; all his thoughts are, "There is no God."
Their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their highways.
For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.
"Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to deceive." "The venom of asps is under their lips."
And the Lord said: "Because this people draw near with their mouth and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment taught by men,
For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires,
No one enters suit justly; no one goes to law honestly; they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies, they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
For you are not a God who delights in wickedness; evil may not dwell with you.
In the pride of his face the wicked does not seek him; all his thoughts are, "There is no God."
They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.
But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."
They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.
And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds,
They were scorched by the fierce heat, and they cursed the name of God who had power over these plagues. They did not repent and give him glory.
In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
For the wicked boasts of the desires of his soul, and the one greedy for gain curses and renounces the LORD.
those who trust in their wealth and boast of the abundance of their riches?
And they all plotted together to come and fight against Jerusalem and to cause confusion in it.
Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, "Come and let us meet together at Hakkephirim in the plain of Ono." But they intended to do me harm.
Those who seek my life lay their snares; those who seek my hurt speak of ruin and meditate treachery all day long.
They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them away; they oppress a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.
You destroy those who speak lies; the LORD abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.
Though they know God's decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.
But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite servant and Geshem the Arab heard of it, they jeered at us and despised us and said, "What is this thing that you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?"
And he said in the presence of his brothers and of the army of Samaria, "What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they restore it for themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish up in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, and burned ones at that?"
So the honor is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe, "The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,"
For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions,
But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite servant heard this, it displeased them greatly that someone had come to seek the welfare of the people of Israel.
The wicked flee when no one pursues, 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.
heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good,
Do you thus repay the LORD, you foolish and senseless people? Is not he your father, who created you, who made you and established you?
Such are the paths of all who forget God; the hope of the godless shall perish.
The wicked borrows but does not pay back, but the righteous is generous and gives;
Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things.
But the house of Israel will not be willing to listen to you, for they are not willing to listen to me: because all the house of Israel have a hard forehead and a stubborn heart.
"There are those who rebel against the light, who are not acquainted with its ways, and do not stay in its paths.
For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.
treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.
having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.
Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or steadfast love, and no knowledge of God in the land;
in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
The descendants also are impudent and stubborn: I send you to them, and you shall say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD.'
The righteous hates falsehood, but the wicked brings shame and disgrace.
The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray from birth, speaking lies.
Their hands are on what is evil, to do it well; the prince and the judge ask for a bribe, and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul; thus they weave it together.
He sits in ambush in the villages; in hiding places he murders the innocent. His eyes stealthily watch for the helpless;
The way of the guilty is crooked, but the conduct of the pure is upright.
Because of the iniquity of his unjust gain I was angry, I struck him; I hid my face and was angry, but he went on backsliding in the way of his own heart.
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit do we get if we pray to him?'
Have those who work evil no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon God?
For they persecute him whom you have struck down, and they recount the pain of those you have wounded.
For he did not remember to show kindness, but pursued the poor and needy and the brokenhearted, to put them to death.
For the sin of their mouths, the words of their lips, let them be trapped in their pride. For the cursing and lies that they utter,
But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered; they gathered together against me; wretches whom I did not know tore at me without ceasing;
Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?--unless indeed you fail to meet the test!
They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work.
Ahab said to Elijah, "Have you found me, O my enemy?" He answered, "I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do what is evil in the sight of the LORD.
And they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings and used divination and omens and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger.
For the LORD had said to Moses, "Say to the people of Israel, 'You are a stiff-necked people; if for a single moment I should go up among you, I would consume you. So now take off your ornaments, that I may know what to do with you.'"
Egypt, Judah, Edom, the sons of Ammon, Moab, and all who dwell in the desert who cut the corners of their hair, for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart."
When the wicked dies, his hope will perish, and the expectation of wealth perishes too.
If favor is shown to the wicked, he does not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness he deals corruptly and does not see the majesty of the LORD.
All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one."
For there are many who are insubordinate, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision party.
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 is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.
And with many other words he bore witness and continued to exhort them, saying, "Save yourselves from this crooked generation."
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