16 Bible Verses about Growth Of Evil

And he said unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel do commit here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but thou shalt again see yet other great abominations.

He said also unto me, Thou shalt again see yet other great abominations which they do.

Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this , O son of man? thou shalt again see yet greater abominations than these.

And she increased her whoredoms; for she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,

Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, remembering the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

And she hath rebelled against mine ordinances in doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries that are round about her; for they have rejected mine ordinances, and as for my statutes, they have not walked in them.

As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me: I will change their glory into shame.

I will not drive them out from before thee in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the beasts of the field multiply against thee.

Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain.

For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and builded palaces; and Judah hath multiplied fortified cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the castles thereof.

Because Ephraim hath multiplied altars for sinning, altars have been unto him for sinning.

The more the prophets called them, the more they went from them: they sacrificed unto the Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.

It is enough for the disciple that he be as his teacher, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more them of his household!

And because iniquity shall be multiplied, the love of the many shall wax cold.

And the law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace did abound more exceedingly:

The Lord is become as an enemy, he hath swallowed up Israel; He hath swallowed up all her palaces, he hath destroyed his strongholds; And he hath multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.