55 Bible Verses about Wicked Described As

“But you have been cast out of your tomb
Like a rejected branch,
Clothed with the slain who are pierced with a sword,
Who go down to the stones of the pit
Like a trampled corpse.

You will tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day which I am preparing,” says the Lord of hosts.

and when it was filled, they drew it up on the beach; and they sat down and gathered the good fish into containers, but the bad they threw away.

For there is no good tree which produces bad fruit, nor, on the other hand, a bad tree which produces good fruit.

But man in his pomp will not endure;
He is like the beasts that perish.

But these, like unreasoning animals, born as creatures of instinct to be captured and killed, reviling where they have no knowledge, will in the destruction of those creatures also be destroyed,

‘Therefore their inhabitants were short of strength,
They were dismayed and put to shame;
They were as the vegetation of the field and as the green herb,
As grass on the housetops is scorched before it is grown up.

I will bring distress on men
So that they will walk like the blind,
Because they have sinned against the Lord;
And their blood will be poured out like dust
And their flesh like dung.

Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind. And if a blind man guides a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”

All of them are stubbornly rebellious,
Going about as a talebearer.
They are bronze and iron;
They, all of them, are corrupt.

“Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me; all of them are bronze and tin and iron and lead in the furnace; they are the dross of silver.

“Instead of the thorn bush the cypress will come up,
And instead of the nettle the myrtle will come up,
And it will be a memorial to the Lord,
For an everlasting sign which will not be cut off.”

And you, son of man, neither fear them nor fear their words, though thistles and thorns are with you and you sit on scorpions; neither fear their words nor be dismayed at their presence, for they are a rebellious house.

Many bulls have surrounded me;
Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.

“Are they as straw before the wind,
And like chaff which the storm carries away?

The wicked are not so,
But they are like chaff which the wind drives away.

His winnowing fork is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clear His threshing floor; and He will gather His wheat into the barn, but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

They have venom like the venom of a serpent;
Like a deaf cobra that stops up its ear,

Like a dog that returns to its vomit
Is a fool who repeats his folly.

“Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before swine, or they will trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

It has happened to them according to the true proverb, “A dog returns to its own vomit,” and, “A sow, after washing, returns to wallowing in the mire.”

You have removed all the wicked of the earth like dross;
Therefore I love Your testimonies.

“Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me; all of them are bronze and tin and iron and lead in the furnace; they are the dross of silver. Therefore, thus says the Lord God, ‘Because all of you have become dross, therefore, behold, I am going to gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.

Therefore they will be like the morning cloud
And like dew which soon disappears,
Like chaff which is blown away from the threshing floor
And like smoke from a chimney.

For you will be like an oak whose leaf fades away
Or as a garden that has no water.

You will make them as a fiery oven in the time of your anger;
The Lord will swallow them up in His wrath,
And fire will devour them.

They are all adulterers,
Like an oven heated by the baker
Who ceases to stir up the fire
From the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.

They surrounded me like bees;
They were extinguished as a fire of thorns;
In the name of the Lord I will surely cut them off.

Everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.

By the fury of the Lord of hosts the land is burned up,
And the people are like fuel for the fire;
No man spares his brother.

All the nations will be gathered before Him; and He will separate them from one another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats;

For they will wither quickly like the grass
And fade like the green herb.

That when the wicked sprouted up like grass
And all who did iniquity flourished,
It was only that they might be destroyed forevermore.

‘Because of your raging against Me,
And because your arrogance has come up to My ears,
Therefore I will put My hook in your nose,
And My bridle in your lips,
And I will turn you back by the way which you came.

I have seen a wicked, violent man
Spreading himself like a luxuriant tree in its native soil.

“I have listened and heard,
They have spoken what is not right;
No man repented of his wickedness,
Saying, ‘What have I done?’
Everyone turned to his course,
Like a horse charging into the battle.

Those who make them will become like them,
Everyone who trusts in them.

He is like a lion that is eager to tear,
And as a young lion lurking in hiding places.

As smoke is driven away, so drive them away;
As wax melts before the fire,
So let the wicked perish before God.

Behold, the Lord God helps Me;
Who is he who condemns Me?
Behold, they will all wear out like a garment;
The moth will eat them.

“For the moth will eat them like a garment,
And the grub will eat them like wool.
But My righteousness will be forever,
And My salvation to all generations.”

When the whirlwind passes, the wicked is no more,
But the righteous has an everlasting foundation.

Like an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross
Are burning lips and a wicked heart.

They call them rejected silver,
Because the Lord has rejected them.

You serpents, you brood of vipers, how will you escape the sentence of hell?

“For he will be like a bush in the desert
And will not see when prosperity comes,
But will live in stony wastes in the wilderness,
A land of salt without inhabitant.

Others fell on the rocky places, where they did not have much soil; and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of soil.

“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace; and all the arrogant and every evildoer will be chaff; and the day that is coming will set them ablaze,” says the Lord of hosts, “so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.”

But the wicked are like the tossing sea,
For it cannot be quiet,
And its waters toss up refuse and mud.

“He flies away like a dream, and they cannot find him;
Even like a vision of the night he is chased away.

“But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the market places, who call out to the other children,

These are springs without water and mists driven by a storm, for whom the black darkness has been reserved.

O my God, make them like the whirling dust,
Like chaff before the wind.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but inside they are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness.

“An idiot will become intelligent
When the foal of a wild donkey is born a man.