8 Bible Verses about Crookedness

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Isaiah 45:2

I will go before thee, and make the crooked straight. I shall break the brazen doors, and burst the iron bars.

Proverbs 11:3

The innocent dealing of the just shall lead them; but the unfaithfulness of the despisers shall be their own destruction.

Ecclesiastes 1:15

The crooked cannot be made straight, and the faults cannot be numbered.

Deuteronomy 32:5

The froward and overthwart generation hath marred themselves to himward, and are not his sons for their deformities' sake.

Psalm 125:5

As for such as turn back unto their own wickedness, the LORD shall lead them forth with the evil doers; but peace shall be upon Israel.

Isaiah 59:8

But the way of peace they know not. In their goings is no equity, their ways are so crooked that whosoever goeth therein, knoweth nothing of peace.

Proverbs 28:18

Whoso leadeth a godly and an innocent life, shall be safe; but he that goeth froward ways, shall once have a fall.

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Crookedness » Crookedness, general references to

Psalm 125:5

As for such as turn back unto their own wickedness, the LORD shall lead them forth with the evil doers; but peace shall be upon Israel.

Deuteronomy 32:5

The froward and overthwart generation hath marred themselves to himward, and are not his sons for their deformities' sake.

Isaiah 59:8

But the way of peace they know not. In their goings is no equity, their ways are so crooked that whosoever goeth therein, knoweth nothing of peace.

Crookedness » The crooked

Isaiah 40:1-4

Comfort my people, O ye prophets; comfort my people, sayeth your God. Comfort Jerusalem, and tell her that her travail is at an end, that her offense is pardoned, that she hath received of the LORD's hand sufficient correction for all her sins. A voice crieth in the wilderness, "Prepare the way for the LORD, make straight the path for our God in the desert. read more.
Let all valleys be exalted, and every mountain and hill be laid low. Whatso is crooked, let it be made straight, and let the rough places be made plain fields.

Luke 3:4-6

as it is written in the book of the sayings of Isaiah the prophet, which sayeth, "The voice of a crier in 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 crooked things shall be made straight: and the rough ways shall be made smooth. And all flesh shall see the saviour sent of God."

Crookedness » Whose ways are crooked

Proverbs 2:11-15

then shall counsel preserve thee, and understanding shall keep thee. That thou mayest be delivered from the evil way, and from the man that speaketh froward things; From such as leave the high street, and walk in the ways of darkness; read more.
Which rejoice in doing evil, and delight in wicked things: Whose ways are crooked, and their paths slanderous;

Crookedness » Those that make crooked paths

Isaiah 59:7-8

Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood. Their counsels are wicked counsels; harm and destruction are in their ways. But the way of peace they know not. In their goings is no equity, their ways are so crooked that whosoever goeth therein, knoweth nothing of peace.

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