86 Bible Verses about Character Of Wicked
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for people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, arrogant, slanderers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, hardhearted, irreconcilable, slanderous, without self-control, savage, with no interest for what is good, traitors, reckless, conceited, loving pleasure rather than loving God,
They [have] behaved corruptly toward him; [they are] not his children; [this is] their flaw, a generation crooked and perverse.
being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greediness, malice, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malevolence. [They are] gossipers,
[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] and uncircumcised in hearts and in [your] ears! You constantly resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers [did], [so] also [do] you!
And {just as} Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these oppose the truth, people corrupted in mind, disqualified concerning the faith.
They only plan to thrust [him] down from his high position; they are pleased [with] deception. With their mouths they bless, but {inwardly} they curse. Selah
Shall I regard as pure [the one] with scales of wickedness, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
"But they rebelled and were rebellious against you and cast your law behind their back and killed your prophets, who had warned them to turn back to you, and they did great blasphemies.
In arrogance [the] wicked persecutes [the] poor. Let them be caught in [the] schemes that they devised, for [the] wicked boasts about the desire of his {heart}, and [the] one greedy for gain curses [and] treats Yahweh with contempt. {With bald-faced pride} [the] wicked will not seek [God]. There is no God in any of his thoughts.
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 were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, enslaved to various desires and pleasures, spending our lives in wickedness and envy, despicable, hating one another.
Their throat [is] an opened grave; they deceive with their tongues; the venom of asps [is] under their lips,
And the Lord said, "Because this people draw near with its mouth, and with its lips it honors me, and its heart is far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men that has been taught,
for people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, arrogant, slanderers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
[that] you take off, according to your former way of life, the old man, who is being destroyed according to deceitful desires,
There is nobody {who pleads with} justice, and there is nobody who judges with honesty. They rely on nothing and speak vanity. They conceive trouble and beget iniquity;
For you [are] not a God [who] desires wickedness. Evil cannot dwell with you.
{With bald-faced pride} [the] wicked will not seek [God]. There is no God in any of his thoughts.
who, becoming callous, gave themselves over to licentiousness, for the pursuit of all uncleanness in greediness.
But [as] for the cowards and unbelievers and detestable persons and murderers and sexually immoral people and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their share [is] in the lake that burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.
being darkened in understanding, alienated 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 enemies in attitude, because of your evil deeds,
And people were burned up [by the] great heat, and they blasphemed the name of God who has the authority over these plagues, and they did not repent to give him glory.
among whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, so that they would not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
for [the] wicked boasts about the desire of his {heart}, and [the] one greedy for gain curses [and] treats Yahweh with contempt.
those who trust their wealth and boast about the abundance of their riches?
So all of them plotted together to come fight against Jerusalem and to make trouble for it.
Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, "Come and let us meet together in [one of] the villages in the plain of Ono." But they planned to do evil to me.
Those who seek my life lay snares as well, and those intent on my harm speak threats. They also plot deceit all day.
They covet fields and seize [them], and houses, and they take [them] away. They oppress a man and his house; a man and his inheritance.
You destroy speakers of lies. {A man of bloodshed} and deceit Yahweh abhors.
those who are happy to do evil, [for] they delight in [the] deviousness of evil,
who, [although they] know the requirements of God, that those who do such things are worthy of death, not only do they do the same [things], but also they approve of those who do [them].
But Sanballat the Horonite, the Ammonite servant Tobiah, and Geshem the Arab heard it, and they mocked and despised us, saying, "What is this thing that you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?"
Then he said before his brothers and the army of Samaria, "What are the feeble Jews doing? Will they restore [these things] for themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish it in a day? Will they revive the stones from the piles of rubble--even those burned up?"
Therefore the honor [is] for you who believe, but for those who refuse to believe, "The stone that the builders rejected, this one has become {the cornerstone},"
For from these are those who slip into houses and captivate foolish women loaded down with sins, led by various kinds of desires,
But when Sanballat the Horonite and the Ammonite servant Tobiah heard [this], {they were greatly displeased} that a person had come to seek the welfare of the {Israelites}.
The wicked flee, but no one pursues, but the righteous is bold like a lion.
A person of violence will entice his neighbor and cause him to walk on a way [that is] not good.
hardhearted, irreconcilable, slanderous, without self-control, savage, with no interest for what is good,
[Like] this do you treat Yahweh, foolish and {unwise} people? [Has] he not, your father, created you? He made you, and he established you.
So [are] the paths of all who forget God; and [the] hope of [the] godless will perish,
[The] wicked borrows and does not repay, but [the] righteous [is] gracious and gives.
whose end [is] destruction, whose God [is] the stomach, and [whose] glory [is] in their shame, the ones who think on earthly things.
And the house of Israel, they are not willing to listen to you, for they [are] not willing to listen to me, for all of the house of Israel is hard of forehead, and they [are] hard of heart.
"Those are among [the ones] rebelling [against the] light; they do not recognize his ways, and they do not stay in his paths.
For everyone who practices evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds be exposed.
because the mindset of the flesh [is] enmity toward God, for [it is] not subjected to the law of God, for [it is] not able [to do so],
maintaining a form of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid these [people].
Hear the word of Yahweh, children of Israel, for Yahweh has an indictment against the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or loyalty, there is no knowledge of God in the land.
with burning flame giving punishment to those who do not know God and who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus,
And the children [are] {impudent} and {stubborn}, [and so] I am sending you to them, and you must say to them, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh!'
The righteous hates a word of falsehood; the wicked will bring shame and {disgrace}.
The wicked are estranged from [the] womb. They go astray from [the] belly, speaking lies.
He who plans to do evil for himself, they will call [him] "master of mischief."
Their hands [are] upon evil, to do [it] well; the official and the judge ask for the bribe, and the great [man] utters the evil desire of his soul; and they weave [it] together.
He sits in ambush in villages; in the hiding places he kills [the] innocent. His eyes {lurk} for [the] helpless.
Crooked is the way of a man and a foreigner, but the pure [is] upright [in] his conduct.
I was angry because of his sin of gain, and I struck him; I hid and I was angry, but he walked apostate, in the ways of his heart.
Who [is] Shaddai that we should serve him, or what would we benefit when we plead with him?'
Do not evildoers know, [they] who eat my people [as though] they were eating bread? They do not call on God.
because they persecute [those] whom you, yourself, have struck, and they tell of the pain of [those] you have wounded.
because he did not remember to show loyal love, but he pursued anyone, poor or needy or brokenhearted, to slay [them].
[By] the sin of their mouth [and] the words of their lips, even in their pride, let them be trapped, and for [the] curses and lies they proclaim.
But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered together; smiters whom I did not know gathered against me. They tore and did not cease.
Test yourselves [to see] if you are in the faith. Examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize regarding yourselves that Jesus Christ [is] in you, unless you are unqualified?
They profess to know God, but by their deeds they deny [him], [because they] are detestable and disobedient, and unfit for every good deed.
Then Ahab said to Elijah, "Have you found me, my enemy?" He said, "I have found you because you have sold yourself to do evil in the eyes of Yahweh.
They made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire, they practiced divination and read omens, and they sold themselves to do evil in the eyes of Yahweh to provoke him.
And Yahweh said to Moses, "Say to the {Israelites}, 'You [are] a stiff-necked people; [if] one moment I were to go up among you, I would destroy you. And now take down your ornaments from on you, and I will {decide} what I will do to you."
Egypt, Judah, and Edom, and the {Ammonites}, and Moab, and all those who are trimmed to [the] side, those who live in the desert, for all the nations [are] uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel [are] uncircumcised of heart."
With the death of a wicked person, hope will die, and the expectation of the godless perishes.
[Though the] wicked person is shown compassion, he does not learn righteousness; he acts unjustly in [the] land [of] uprightness, and he does not see the majesty of Yahweh.
A man of wickedness concocts evil, and his lips [are] like a scorching fire.
All have turned aside together; they have become worthless; [There] is no one who practices kindness; [there] is not even one.
For there are many rebellious [people], idle talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend expecting back nothing, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.
And with many other words he solemnly urged and exhorted them, saying, "Be saved from this crooked generation!"
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