37 Bible Verses about Evildoers

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1 Peter 4:15

Let no one among you undergo punishment as a taker of life, or as a thief, or as an evil-doer, or as one who is over-interested in other men's business;

Romans 13:1-4

Let everyone put himself under the authority of the higher powers, because there is no power which is not of God, and all powers are ordered by God. For which reason everyone who puts himself against the authority puts himself against the order of God: and those who are against it will get punishment for themselves. For rulers are not a cause of fear to the good work but to the evil. If you would have no fear of the authority, do good and you will have praise;read more.
For he is the servant of God to you for good. But if you do evil, have fear; for the sword is not in his hand for nothing: he is God's servant, making God's punishment come on the evil-doer.

Psalm 37:1

Do not be angry because of the wrongdoers, or have envy of the workers of evil.

Proverbs 17:4

A wrongdoer gives attention to evil lips, and a man of deceit gives ear to a damaging tongue.

1 Samuel 24:13

There is an old saying, From the evil-doer comes evil: but my hand will never be lifted up against you.

2 Samuel 3:39

While I, though I am crowned king, have little strength, and these men, the sons of Zeruiah, are out of my control: may the Lord give to the evil-doer the reward of his evil-doing!

Job 8:20

Truly, God will not give up him who is without sin, and will not take evil-doers by the hand.

Job 34:8

And goes in the company of evil-doers, walking in the way of sinners?

Psalm 14:4

Have all the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food as they would take bread; they make no prayer to the Lord.

Psalm 26:5

I have been a hater of the band of wrongdoers, and I will not be seated among sinners.

Psalm 36:12

There the workers of evil have come down: they have been made low, and will not be lifted up.

Psalm 53:4

Have the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food, as they would take bread; they make no prayer to God.

Psalm 59:2

Take me out of the power of the workers of evil, and keep me safe from the men of blood.

Psalm 94:4

Words of pride come from their lips; all the workers of evil say great things of themselves.

Isaiah 1:4

O nation full of sin, a people weighted down with crime, a generation of evil-doers, false-hearted children: they have gone away from the Lord, they have no respect for the Holy One of Israel, their hearts are turned back from him.

Isaiah 31:2

Though he is wise, and able to send evil, and his purpose will not be changed; but he will go against the house of the evil-doers, and against those to whom they are looking for help.

Jeremiah 23:14

And in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a shocking thing; they are untrue to their wives, walking in deceit, and they make strong the hands of evil-doers, so that a man may not be turned back from his evil-doing: they have all become like Sodom to me, and its people like Gomorrah

Hosea 10:9

O Israel, you have done evil from the days of Gibeah; there they took up their position, so that the fighting against the children of evil might not overtake them in Gibeah.

Malachi 4:1

For see, the day is coming, it is burning like an oven; all the men of pride and all who do evil will be dry stems of grass: and in the day which is coming they will be burned up, says the Lord of armies, till they have not a root or a branch.

Luke 13:27

But he will say, Truly, I have no knowledge of you or where you come from; go away from me, you workers of evil.

Luke 18:11

The Pharisee, taking up his position, said to himself these words: God, I give you praise because I am not like other men, who take more than their right, who are evil-doers, who are untrue to their wives, or even like this tax-farmer.

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