53 Bible Verses about Wicked Described As

but you are cast out, away from your grave, like a loathed branch, clothed with the slain, those pierced by the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit, like a dead body trampled underfoot.

And you shall tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet, on the day when I act, says the LORD of hosts.

When it was full, men drew it ashore and sat down and sorted the good into containers but threw away the bad.

"For no good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit,

Man in his pomp will not remain; he is like the beasts that perish.

But these, like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed, blaspheming about matters of which they are ignorant, will also be destroyed in their destruction,

while their inhabitants, shorn of strength, are dismayed and confounded, and have become like plants of the field and like tender grass, like grass on the housetops, blighted before it is grown.

I will bring distress on mankind, so that they shall walk like the blind, because they have sinned against the LORD; their blood shall be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung.

Let them alone; they are blind guides. And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit."

They are all stubbornly rebellious, going about with slanders; they are bronze and iron; all of them act corruptly.

"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 dross of silver.

Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress; instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle; and it shall make a name for the LORD, an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off."

And you, son of man, be not afraid of them, nor be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you and you sit on scorpions. Be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house.

Many bulls encompass me; strong bulls of Bashan surround me;

That they are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away?

The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away.

His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire."

They have venom like the venom of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops its ear,

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

"Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you.

What the true proverb says has happened to them: "The dog returns to its own vomit, and the sow, after washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire."

All the wicked of the earth you discard 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 dross of silver. Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.

Therefore they shall be like the morning mist or like the dew that goes early away, like the chaff that swirls from the threshing floor or like smoke from a window.

For you shall be like an oak whose leaf withers, and like a garden without water.

You will make them as a blazing oven when you appear. The LORD will swallow them up in his wrath, and fire will consume them.

They are all adulterers; they are like a heated oven whose baker ceases to stir the fire, from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.

They surrounded me like bees; they went out like a fire among thorns; in the name of the LORD I cut them off!

And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.

Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts the land is scorched, and the people are like fuel for the fire; no one spares another.

Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

For they will soon fade like the grass and wither like the green herb.

that though the wicked sprout like grass and all evildoers flourish, they are doomed to destruction forever;

Because you have raged against me and your complacency has come into my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will turn you back on the way by which you came.

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

I have paid attention and listened, but they have not spoken rightly; no man relents of his evil, saying, 'What have I done?' Everyone turns to his own course, like a horse plunging headlong into battle.

Those who make them become like them; so do all who trust in them.

He is like a lion eager to tear, as a young lion lurking in ambush.

As smoke is driven away, so you shall drive them away; as wax melts before fire, so the wicked shall perish before God!

Behold, the Lord GOD helps me; who will declare me guilty? Behold, all of them will wear out like a garment; the moth will eat them up.

For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation to all generations."

When the tempest passes, the wicked is no more, but the righteous is established forever.

Like the glaze covering an earthen vessel are fervent lips with an evil heart.

Rejected silver they are called, for the LORD has rejected them."

He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land.

Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, since they had no depth of soil,

"For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming shall 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 mire and dirt.

He will fly away like a dream and not be found; he will be chased away like a vision of the night.

"But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to their playmates,

These are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm. For them the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved.

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

But a stupid man will get understanding when a wild donkey's colt is born a man!