16 Bible Verses about Growth Of Evil

And he said to me, "Son of man, do you see what they are doing, the great abominations that the house of Israel are committing here, to drive me far from my sanctuary? But you will see still greater abominations."

He said also to me, "You will see still greater abominations that they commit."

Then he said to me, "Have you seen this, O son of man? You will see still greater abominations than these."

But she carried her whoring further. She saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed in vermilion

Yet she increased her whoring, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the whore in the land of Egyp

And she has rebelled against my rules by doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries all around her; for they have rejected my rules and have not walked in my statutes.

The more they increased, the more they sinned against me; I will change their glory into shame.

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

You have multiplied your slain in this city and have filled its streets with the slain.

For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces, and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; so I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour her strongholds.

Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, they have become to him altars for sinning.

The more they were called, the more they went away; they kept sacrificing to the Baals and burning offerings to idols.

It is enough for the disciple to be like his teacher, and the servant like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign those of his household.

And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold.

Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,

The Lord has become like an enemy; he has swallowed up Israel; he has swallowed up all its palaces; he has laid in ruins its strongholds, and he has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.