16 Bible Verses about Growth Of Evil

And He saith unto me, 'Son of man, art thou seeing what they are doing? the great abominations that the house of Israel are doing here, to keep far off from My sanctuary; and again thou dost turn, thou dost see great abominations.'

And He saith unto me, 'Again thou dost turn, thou dost see great abominations that they are doing.'

And He saith unto me, 'Hast thou seen, son of man? again thou dost turn, thou dost see greater abominations than these.'

And she doth add unto her whoredoms, And she seeth graved men on the wall, Pictures of Chaldeans, graved with red lead,

And she multiplieth her whoredoms, To remember the days of her youth, When she went a-whoring in the land of Egypt.

And she changeth My judgments into wickedness more than the nations, And My statutes more than the lands that are round about her, For against My judgments they have kicked, And My statutes -- they have not walked in them.

According to their abundance so they sinned against Me, Their honour into shame I change.

I cast them not out from before thee in one year, lest the land be a desolation, and the beast of the field hath multiplied against thee;

Ye multiplied your wounded in this city, And filled its out-places with the wounded.

And forget doth Israel his Maker, and buildeth temples, And Judah hath multiplied cities of defence, And I have sent a fire into his cities, And it hath consumed their palaces!

Because Ephraim did multiply altars to sin, They have been to him altars to sin.

They have called to them rightly, They have gone from before them, To lords they do sacrifice, And to graven images they make perfume.

sufficient to the disciple that he may be as his teacher, and the servant as his lord; if the master of the house they did call Beelzeboul, how much more those of his household?

and because of the abounding of the lawlessness, the love of the many shall become cold;

And law came in, that the offence might abound, and where the sin did abound, the grace did overabound,

The Lord hath been as an enemy, He hath swallowed up Israel, He hath swallowed up all her palaces, He hath destroyed His fortresses, And He multiplieth in the daughter of Judah Mourning and moaning.