16 Bible Verses about Growth Of Evil

And he said to me, "Son of man, "{Do you see} what they [are] doing--great detestable things that the house of Israel [is] committing here [so as] to drive [me] from my sanctuary, and yet {you will see again} greater detestable things."

And he said to me, "Still {you will see again} greater detestable things that they [are] doing."

And he said to me, "Have you seen, son of man? Still {you will see again} greater detestable things than these."

And she increased her whorings, and she saw men carved on the wall, images of Chaldeans carved in red

Yet she increased her whorings, {recalling} the days of her childhood when she was prostituted in the land of Egypt

But she has rebelled against my regulations to the point of wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that [are] around her; for they rejected my regulations, and [as for] my statutes, they did not walk in them.

When they became many, their sin increased against me; they changed their glory into shame.

I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become a desolation and {the wild animals} multiply against you.

You made your slain ones numerous in this city, and you have filled its streets [with] slain ones." '

Israel has forgotten his maker and built palaces, and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; but I will send fire on his cities and it will devour her strongholds.

When Ephraim multiplied altars to expiate sins, they became to him altars to sin [on].

When I called them, they went from my face. They sacrificed to the Baals, and they sacrificed to idols.

[It is] enough for the disciple that he become like his teacher, and the slave like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more the members of his household?

and because lawlessness will increase, the love of many will grow cold.

Now the law came in as a side issue, in order that the trespass could increase, but where sin increased, grace was present in greater abundance,

The Lord has become like an enemy; he has destroyed Israel; he has destroyed all its citadel fortresses; he has ruined all its fortifications and multiplied lamentation and mourning in the daughter of Judah.