8 Bible Verses about Crookedness

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Isaiah 45:2

I will go before you, and make hills level. I will break in pieces the bronze gates, and cut the iron bars in two.

Proverbs 11:3

The integrity of the upright shall guide them; but the crookedness of traitors shall destroy them.

Ecclesiastes 1:15

What is crooked cannot be made straight; and that lacking cannot be numbered.

Deuteronomy 32:5

They have corrupted themselves: they are not His sons; it is their blemish; they are a crooked and perverse generation.

Psalm 125:5

And those who turn aside to their crooked ways, Jehovah shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity; peace shall be on Israel.

Isaiah 59:8

They did not know the way of peace, and there is no judgment in their paths. They have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever goes in them shall not know peace.

Proverbs 28:18

Whoever walks uprightly shall be saved; but he who is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.

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Crookedness » Crookedness, general references to

Psalm 125:5

And those who turn aside to their crooked ways, Jehovah shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity; peace shall be on Israel.

Deuteronomy 32:5

They have corrupted themselves: they are not His sons; it is their blemish; they are a crooked and perverse generation.

Isaiah 59:8

They did not know the way of peace, and there is no judgment in their paths. They have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever goes in them shall not know peace.

Crookedness » The crooked

Isaiah 40:1-4

Comfort, O comfort my people, says your God. Speak lovingly to the heart of Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is done, that her iniquity is pardoned; for she has received of Jehovah's hand double for all her sins. The voice of him who cries in the wilderness, Prepare the way of Jehovah, make straight a highway in the desert for our God. read more.
Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low; and the crooked places shall be made level, and the rough places smooth;

Luke 3:4-6

as it is written in the book of the Words of Isaiah the prophet, saying, "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 brought low, and the crooked shall be straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth. And all flesh shall see the salvation of God."

Crookedness » Whose ways are crooked

Proverbs 2:11-15

judgment shall keep you, understanding shall keep you, to deliver you from the way of the evil man, from the man who speaks wicked things; those who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness, read more.
who rejoice to do evil and delight in the perversities of the wicked; whose ways are crooked, and are devious in their paths.

Crookedness » Those that make crooked paths

Isaiah 59:7-8

Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and ruin are in their paths. They did not know the way of peace, and there is no judgment in their paths. They have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever goes in them shall not know peace.

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