16 Bible Verses about Growth Of Evil

He said furthermore to me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should withdraw from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations.

He said also to me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations that they do.

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

And that she increased her prostitutions: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion.

Yet she multiplied her prostitutions, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, in which she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are around her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.

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

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

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

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

Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be to him to sin.

As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed to Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.

It is enough for the disciple that he should be as his teacher, and the servant as his lord: if they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more will they call them of his household?

And because iniquity will abound, the love of many will become cold.

Moreover the law entered, that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:

The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.