26 Bible Verses about Pursuing Violence

Draw out the spear also, and stop the way against those who pursue me. Say to my soul, I am thy salvation.

An evil speaker shall not be established in the earth. Evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

Ephraim feeds on wind, and follows after the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and desolation. And they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.

Therefore pride is as a chain around their neck. Violence covers them as a garment.

Blessings are upon the head of a righteous man, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

The mouth of a righteous man is a fountain of life, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

Violence has risen up into a rod of wickedness. None of them [shall remain], nor of their multitude, nor of their wealth. Neither shall there be eminency among them.

For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

He who sends a message by the hand of a fool cuts off the feet, [and] drinks injury.

A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth, but the soul of the treacherous, violence.

For they do not know to do right, says LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.

Ye who put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near,

For their heart meditates oppression, and their lips talk of mischief.

No! In heart ye work wickedness. Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.

They come all of them for violence. The set of their faces is forwards, and they gather captives as the sand.

I have seen a wicked man in great power, and spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.

If he begets a son who is a robber, a shedder of blood, and who does any one of these things,

By the abundance of thy commerce they filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou have sinned. Therefore I have cast thee out of the mountain of God as profane, and I have destroyed thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of t

And in those times many shall stand up against the king of the south. Also the sons of the violent among thy people shall lift themselves up to establish the vision, but they shall fall.

A gracious woman obtains honor, and aggressive men obtain riches.

And from the days of John the immerser until now the kingdom of the heavens is treated aggressively, and aggressors seize it.

The law and the prophets were until John. From that time the kingdom of God is proclaimed good-news, and every man in it is treated aggressively.

For the violence done to Lebanon shall cover thee and the plunder of the beasts ([which] made them afraid), because of men's blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell therein.

Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!

And in that day I will punish all those who leap over the threshold, who fill their master's house with violence and deceit.

Because thou have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder thee, because of men's blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell therein.