86 Bible Verses about Character Of Wicked
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For there shall be men who are lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, evil speakers, disobedient to their parents, unthankful, impure, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, without temperance, without meekness, without goodness, traitors, rash, puffed up, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God,
They have corrupted themselves, their spot is that they are not his sons; they are a perverse and crooked generation.
being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is no one that does good.
Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do ye.
And in the manner that Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth, men of corrupt understanding, reprobate concerning the faith.
They only consult to cast him down from his greatness; they delight in lies; they bless with their mouth, but they curse in their inward parts. Selah.
Nevertheless, they were contentious and rebelled against thee and cast thy law behind their backs and slew thy prophets who testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great abominations.
The wicked in his pride persecutes the poor; let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. For the wicked boasts of his heart's desire and blesses the covetous, whom the LORD abhors. The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, does not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are their paths.
For we ourselves also were foolish in another time, rebellious, deceived, serving diverse lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips,
Therefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people sacrifice unto me and honour me with their lips, but have removed their heart far from me, and their worship with which they honour me was taught by the commandment of men:
For there shall be men who are lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, evil speakers, disobedient to their parents, unthankful, impure,
that ye put off everything concerning the old way of life, that is, the old man who corrupts himself according to deceitful desires,
No one calls for righteousness, nor do any judge by the truth; they trust in vanity, and speak vanities; they conceive trouble and bring forth iniquity.
For thou art not a God that loves wickedness; neither shall one who is evil dwell with thee.
The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, does not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
who, after losing all sense of feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness to work all uncleanness with greediness.
But the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and murderers and fornicators and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.
having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them because of the blindness of their heart,
And you, that were in another time alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now he has reconciled you
And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, who has authority over these plagues; and they did not repent to give him glory.
In whom the god of this age has blinded the understanding of those who do not believe, that the light of the gospel of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine in them.
For the wicked boasts of his heart's desire and blesses the covetous, whom the LORD abhors.
and conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem and to hinder it.
that Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together in one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they had thought to do me evil.
Those that seek after my life lay snares for me, and those that seek my hurt speak calamities and imagine deceits all the day long.
And they coveted fields and stole them, and houses and took them away; so they oppressed the man and his house, even the man and his heritage.
Thou shalt destroy those that speak lies: the LORD will abominate the bloody and deceitful man.
Who having understood the righteousness of God, they did not understand that those who do such things are worthy of death, not only those that do the same, but even those who encourage those that do them.
But when Sanballat, the Horonite, and Tobiah, the slave, the Ammonite, and Geshem, the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn and despised us and said, What is this thing that ye do? Will ye rebel against the king?
And he spoke before his brethren and the army of Samaria and said, What are these feeble Jews doing? Is this to be permitted them? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish on time? Will they resurrect the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which were burned?
Unto you, therefore, who believe he is precious; but unto those who are disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,
For of this sort are those who creep into houses and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with various lusts,
When Sanballat, the Horonite, and Tobiah, the slave, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the sons of Israel.
without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, without temperance, without meekness, without goodness,
Do ye thus repay the LORD, O foolish and unwise people? Is he not thy father that has possessed thee? He made thee and established thee.
The foolish (those who are governed by carnal thoughts or desires) shall not stand in thy sight; thou dost hate all workers of iniquity.
So are the paths of all that forget God, and the hypocrite's hope shall perish.
whose end shall be perdition, whose God is their belly and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things).
But the house of Israel will not desire to hear; for they do not desire to hear me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted.
They are among those that rebel against the light; they have never known its ways nor abided in its paths.
For every one that does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
because the prudence of the flesh is enmity against God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, neither indeed can it.
having the appearance of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
Hear the word of the LORD, ye sons of Israel; for the LORD contends with the inhabitants of the land because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the earth.
with flaming fire, to take vengeance on those that do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ,
And to sons that have hard faces and strong hearts do I send thee; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus hath the Lord GOD said.
The righteous man hates lying: but the wicked man makes himself loathsome, and abominable.
The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
To complete the evil with their hands, the prince demands, and the judge judges for a reward; and the great man speaks the desires of his heart: and they confirm it.
He sits in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places he murders the innocent: his eyes are secretly set against the poor.
They slay the widow and the stranger and murder the fatherless.
The way of the perverse man is crooked and strange, but as for the pure, his work is right.
For the iniquity of his covetousness I was wroth and smote him: I hid my face and was wroth, and he went on rebelliously in the way of his heart.
Who is the Almighty that we should serve him? And what profit should we have if we pray unto him?
Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread; they have not called upon God.
For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten, and they boast that thou hast slain their enemies.
Because he did not remember to show mercy but persecuted the man who is poor in spirit and destitute and broken in heart, that he might slay him.
For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride; they shall be subject to weakness and to a curse.
But in my adversity they rejoiced and gathered themselves together; yea, the smiters gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they tore me apart and did not cease:
Examine yourselves whether ye are in the faith; prove your own selves. Do ye not know your own selves if Jesus Christ is in you? Unless ye are reprobates.
They profess that they know God, but in works they deny him, being abominable and rebellious and reprobate unto every good work.
And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O my enemy? And he answered, I have found thee because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the LORD.
and they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire and used divination and enchantments and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
For the LORD had said unto Moses, Say unto the sons of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people; I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment and consume thee; therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee that I may know what to do unto thee.
Egypt and Judah and Edom and the sons of Ammon and Moab and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all the Gentiles are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.
Let favour be showed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness he will deal unjustly and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, without mercy.
The man of Belial digs in search of evil, and in his lips there is as a burning fire.
They are all gone out of the way; they are together become unprofitable; there is no one that does good, no, not one.
For there are many insubordinate and vain talkers and deceivers of souls, especially those of the circumcision,
But rather love ye your enemies and do good and lend, hoping for nothing again, and your reward shall be great; and ye shall be the sons of the Most High, for he is kind even unto the unthankful and to the evil.
And with many other words he testified and exhorted, saying, Be saved from this perverse generation.