8 Bible Verses about Crookedness
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"I will go before you and level mountains. Bronze doors I will shatter and iron bars I will hack through.
The integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the unfaithful destroys them.
What is bent cannot be straightened, and what is missing cannot be supplied.
His people have been unfaithful to him; they have not acted like his children -- this is their sin. They are a perverse and deceitful generation.
As for those who are bent on traveling a sinful path, may the Lord remove them, along with those who behave wickedly! May Israel experience peace!
whose paths are morally crooked, and who are devious in their ways;
They are unfamiliar with peace; their deeds are unjust. They use deceitful methods, and whoever deals with them is unfamiliar with peace.
The one who walks blamelessly will be delivered, but whoever is perverse in his ways will fall at once.
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Crookedness » Crookedness, general references to
As for those who are bent on traveling a sinful path, may the Lord remove them, along with those who behave wickedly! May Israel experience peace!
His people have been unfaithful to him; they have not acted like his children -- this is their sin. They are a perverse and deceitful generation.
whose paths are morally crooked, and who are devious in their ways;
They are unfamiliar with peace; their deeds are unjust. They use deceitful methods, and whoever deals with them is unfamiliar with peace.
Crookedness » The crooked
"Comfort, comfort my people," says your God. "Speak kindly to Jerusalem, and tell her that her time of warfare is over, that her punishment is completed. For the Lord has made her pay double for all her sins." A voice cries out, "In the wilderness clear a way for the Lord; construct in the desert a road for our God. read more.
Every valley must be elevated, and every mountain and hill leveled. The rough terrain will become a level plain, the rugged landscape a wide valley.
As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, "The voice of one shouting in the wilderness: 'Prepare the way for the Lord, make his paths straight. Every valley will be filled, and every mountain and hill will be brought low, and the crooked will be made straight, and the rough ways will be made smooth, and all humanity will see the salvation of God.'"
Crookedness » Whose ways are crooked
Discretion will protect you, understanding will guard you, to deliver you from the way of the wicked, from those speaking perversity, who leave the upright paths to walk on the dark ways, read more.
who delight in doing evil, they rejoice in perverse evil; whose paths are morally crooked, and who are devious in their ways;
Crookedness » Those that make crooked paths
They are eager to do evil, quick to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful; they crush and destroy. They are unfamiliar with peace; their deeds are unjust. They use deceitful methods, and whoever deals with them is unfamiliar with peace.
