9 Bible Verses about God's Intolerance Of Evil
Most Relevant Verses
Your eyes are too pure to approve evil,
And You cannot look favorably on wickedness.
Why then do You look favorably
On those who act treacherously?
Why are you silent when the wicked (Chaldean oppressors) destroy
Those more righteous than they?
So Israel joined themselves to Baal of Peor [in worship]. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel.
But the sons of Israel acted unfaithfully and violated their obligation in regard to the things [off limits] under the ban [those things belonging to the Lord], for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, from the tribe of Judah, took some of the things under the ban [for personal gain]. Therefore the anger of the Lord burned against the Israelites.
And the anger of the Lord burned against Uzzah, and God struck him there for his irreverence; and he died there by the ark of God.
The anger of the Lord burned against Uzza, and He struck him down because he touched the ark; and there he died before God.
There they burned incense on all the high places, just as the [pagan] nations whom the Lord had deported before them; and they did evil and contemptible things, provoking the Lord [to anger].
You destroy those who tell lies;
The Lord detests and rejects the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.
For [God does not overlook sin and] the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who in their wickedness suppress and stifle the truth,
and nothing that defiles or profanes or is unwashed will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices abominations [detestable, morally repugnant things] and lying, but only those [will be admitted] whose names have been written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.