26 Bible Verses about Pursuing Violence

Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am your salvation.

Let not an evil speaker 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 daily increases lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.

Therefore pride surrounds them as a chain; violence covers them as a garment.

Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

The mouth of a righteous man is a well 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 any of theirs: neither shall there be wailing for them.

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

He that sends a message by the hand of a fool cuts off the feet, and drinks violence.

A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: but the soul of the transgressors feeds on violence.

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

You that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;

For their heart studies destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.

Yea, in heart you work wickedness; you weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.

They shall all come for violence: their faces are set like the east wind, and they shall gather captives as the sand.

I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.

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

By the multitude of your trade they have filled the midst of you with violence, and you have sinned: therefore I will cast you as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy you, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.

And in those times there shall many stand up against the king of the south: also the violent men of your people shall exalt themselves to fulfill the vision; but they shall fall.

A gracious woman retains honor: and strong men retain riches.

And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.

The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presses into it.

For the violence done to Lebanon shall cover you, and the plunder of beasts, which made them afraid, because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, and of the city, and of all that dwell in it.

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

In the same day also will I punish all those that leap over the threshold, who fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit.

Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the people shall plunder you; because of bloodshed, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell in it.