8 Bible Verses about Crookedness

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Isaiah 45:2

"I will go before you and level the exalted places, I will break in pieces the doors of bronze and cut through the bars of iron,

Proverbs 11:3

The integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them.

Ecclesiastes 1:15

What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be counted.

Deuteronomy 32:5

They have dealt corruptly with him; they are no longer his children because they are blemished; they are a crooked and twisted generation.

Psalm 125:5

But those who turn aside to their crooked ways the LORD will lead away with evildoers! Peace be upon Israel!

Isaiah 59:8

The way of peace they do not know, and there is no justice in their paths; they have made their roads crooked; no one who treads on them knows peace.

Proverbs 28:18

Whoever walks in integrity will be delivered, but he who is crooked in his ways will suddenly fall.

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Crookedness » Crookedness, general references to

Psalm 125:5

But those who turn aside to their crooked ways the LORD will lead away with evildoers! Peace be upon Israel!

Deuteronomy 32:5

They have dealt corruptly with him; they are no longer his children because they are blemished; they are a crooked and twisted generation.

Isaiah 59:8

The way of peace they do not know, and there is no justice in their paths; they have made their roads crooked; no one who treads on them knows peace.

Crookedness » The crooked

Isaiah 40:1-4

Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the LORD's hand double for all her sins. A voice cries: "In the wilderness prepare the way of the LORD; make straight in the desert a highway for our God. read more.
Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a plain.

Luke 3:4-6

As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness: 'Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall become straight, and the rough places shall become level ways, and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.'"

Crookedness » Whose ways are crooked

Proverbs 2:11-15

discretion will watch over you, understanding will guard you, delivering you from the way of evil, from men of perverted speech, who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness, read more.
who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perverseness of evil, men whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways.

Crookedness » Those that make crooked paths

Isaiah 59:7-8

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. The way of peace they do not know, and there is no justice in their paths; they have made their roads crooked; no one who treads on them knows peace.

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