86 Bible Verses about Character Of Wicked
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For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good, traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;
They have dealt corruptly with him, [they are] not his children, [it is] their blemish. [They are] a perverse and crooked generation.
being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,
The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt. They have done abominable works. There is none who does good.
"You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.
Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so do these also oppose the truth; men corrupted in mind, who concerning the faith, are rejected.
They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.
"Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, and cast your law behind their back, and killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.
In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise. For the wicked boasts of his heart's cravings. He blesses the greedy, and condemns Yahweh. The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.
Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths.
For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
"Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit." "The poison of vipers is under their lips;"
The Lord said, "Because this people draws near with their mouth and with their lips to honor me, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;
For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;
None sues in righteousness, and none pleads in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
For you are not a God who has pleasure in wickedness. Evil can't live with you.
who having become callous gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."
being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts;
People were scorched with great heat, and people blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues. They didn't repent and give him glory.
in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.
For the wicked boasts of his heart's cravings. He blesses the greedy, and condemns Yahweh.
and they conspired all of them together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion therein.
that Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, "Come, let us meet together in [one of] the villages in the plain of Ono." But they intended to harm me.
They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.
They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.
But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they ridiculed us, and despised us, and said, "What is this thing that you are doing? Will you rebel against the king?"
He spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria, and said, "What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, since they are burned?"
For you who believe therefore is the honor, but for those who are disobedient, "The stone which the builders rejected, has become the chief cornerstone,"
For some of these are people who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,
When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly, because a man had come to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.
without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,
Do you thus requite Yahweh, foolish people and unwise? Isn't he your father who has bought you? He has made you, and established you.
So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man shall perish,
whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.
But the house of Israel will not listen to you; for they will not listen to me: for all the house of Israel are obstinate and hard-hearted.
"These are of those who rebel against the light. They don't know its ways, nor stay in its paths.
For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn't come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.
because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.
Hear the word of Yahweh, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: "Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.
giving vengeance to those who don't know God, and to those who don't obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,
The children are impudent and stiff-hearted: I am sending you to them; and you shall tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh.
The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.
He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.
They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.
The way of the guilty is devious, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.
For the iniquity of his covetousness was I angry, and struck him; I hid [my face] and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?'
Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don't call on God?
For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.
because he didn't remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, the broken in heart, to kill them.
For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.
But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn't know it. They tore at me, and didn't cease.
Test your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don't you know as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you? -- unless indeed you are disqualified.
They profess that they know God, but by their works they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.
Ahab said to Elijah, "Have you found me, my enemy?" He answered, "I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh.
They caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger.
Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell the children of Israel, 'You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go up into your midst for one moment, I would consume you. Therefore now take off your jewelry from you, that I may know what to do to you.'"
Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that have the corners [of their hair] cut off, who dwell in the wilderness; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.
Let favor be shown to the wicked, yet he will not learn righteousness. In the land of uprightness he will deal wrongfully, and will not see Yahweh's majesty.
without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;
They have all turned aside. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, no, not, so much as one."
For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.
With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, "Save yourselves from this crooked generation!"