26 Bible Verses about Pursuing Violence

Draw the spear and javelin against my pursuers! Say to my soul, "I am your salvation!"

Let not the slanderer be established in the land; let evil hunt down the violent man speedily!

Ephraim feeds on the wind and pursues the east wind all day long; they multiply falsehood and violence; they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried to Egypt.

Therefore pride is their necklace; violence covers them as a garment.

Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.

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

Violence has grown up into a rod of wickedness. None of them shall remain, nor their abundance, nor their wealth; neither shall there be preeminence among them.

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

Whoever sends a message by the hand of a fool cuts off his own feet and drinks violence.

From the fruit of his mouth a man eats what is good, but the desire of the treacherous is for violence.

"They do not know how to do right," declares the LORD, "those who store up violence and robbery in their strongholds."

O you who put far away the day of disaster and bring near the seat of violence?

for their hearts devise violence, and their lips talk of trouble.

No, in your hearts you devise wrongs; your hands deal out violence on earth.

They all come for violence, all their faces forward. They gather captives like sand.

I have seen a wicked, ruthless man, spreading himself like a green laurel tree.

"If he fathers a son who is violent, a shedder of blood, who does any of these things

In the abundance of your trade you were filled with violence in your midst, and you sinned; so I cast you as a profane thing from the mountain of God, and I destroyed you,O guardian cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.

"In those times many shall rise against the king of the south, and the violent among your own people shall lift themselves up in order to fulfill the vision, but they shall fail.

A gracious woman gets honor, and violent men get riches.

From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven has suffered violence, and the violent take it by force.

"The Law and the Prophets were until John; since then the good news of the kingdom of God is preached, and everyone forces his way into it.

The violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, as will the destruction of the beasts that terrified them, for the blood of man and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell in them.

"Woe to him who builds a town with blood and founds a city on iniquity!

On that day I will punish everyone who leaps over the threshold, and those who fill their master's house with violence and fraud.

Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder you, for the blood of man and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell in them.