40 Bible Verses about wickedness

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Psalm 7:9

Let wickedness consume the wicked; but establish the just: for the righteous God is he who tries the hearts and kidneys.

Isaiah 3:11

Woe unto the wicked! It shall be ill with him, for according to the work of his hands it shall be done unto him.

Micah 2:1

Woe unto those that devise iniquity and fabricate evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they put it into effect because they have power in their hands.

Proverbs 4:17

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

Zechariah 5:8

And he said, This is wickedness. And he cast her into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.

Psalm 125:3

For the rod of wickedness shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous because the righteous shall not put forth their hands unto iniquity.

Proverbs 12:3

Man shall not be established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.

Psalm 140:8

Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked; do not further his wicked thought lest they exalt themselves. Selah.

Ecclesiastes 3:16

And moreover I saw under the sun that instead of judgment, there was wickedness; and instead of righteousness, that iniquity was there.

Proverbs 2:22

But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.

Psalm 10:15

Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man; seek out his wickedness until thou find none.

Job 35:8

Thy wickedness shall hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness shall profit the son of man.

Proverbs 25:5

Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.

Job 20:12

If wickedness was sweet in his mouth, if he hid it under his tongue,

Psalm 5:4

For thou art not a God that loves wickedness; neither shall one who is evil dwell with thee.

Psalm 94:23

And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the LORD our God shall cut them off.

Psalm 129:4

The LORD is righteous; he has cut asunder the cords of the wicked.

Proverbs 10:23

To make an abomination is as sport to the fool, but wisdom is recreation to the man of intelligence.

Jeremiah 15:21

And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will ransom thee out of the hand of the strong.

Ezekiel 3:19

Yet if thou warn the wicked and he does not turn from his wickedness nor from his wicked way, he shall die for his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.

Proverbs 4:16

For they do not sleep, unless they have done evil; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause someone to fall.

Proverbs 18:3

When the wicked comes, then comes also contempt, and with him who dishonours, reproach.

Proverbs 11:5

The righteousness of the perfect shall straighten his way, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

Psalm 84:10

for a day in thy courts is better than a thousand outside of them. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

Psalm 101:8

I will early destroy all the wicked of the land, that I may cut off all the workers of iniquity from the city of the LORD.

Psalm 94:16

Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?

Proverbs 11:21

No matter how many covenants he has made with death, the wicked shall not be absolved, but the seed of the righteous shall escape.

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Fire » Illustrative of » Wickedness

Isaiah 9:18

For wickedness burns as the fire, it shall devour the briers and thorns and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.

Wickedness » Characteristics of

Proverbs 4:16

For they do not sleep, unless they have done evil; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause someone to fall.

Isaiah 1:4

O sinful nation, people laden with iniquity, generation of evildoers, corrupt sons! They have forsaken the LORD; they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger; they have turned back.

Psalm 64:3

Who whet their tongue like a sword and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words

Jude 1:13

raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own abominations; erratic stars, to whom is reserved gross darkness eternally.

Wickedness » Contrasted with the righteous

Psalm 37:17

For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but the LORD upholds the righteous.

Wickedness » What wickedness does

Jeremiah 2:19

Thine own wickedness shall chastise thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee; know therefore and see how evil and bitter it is, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God and that my fear is lacking in thee, saith the Lord GOD of the hosts.

Isaiah 9:18

For wickedness burns as the fire, it shall devour the briers and thorns and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.

Job 35:8

Thy wickedness shall hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness shall profit the son of man.

Proverbs 13:6

Righteousness keeps the one of the perfect way: but wickedness overthrows the sinner.

Wickedness » What is wicked

Leviticus 20:14

And if a man takes a wife and her mother, it is wickedness; they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you.

Jeremiah 17:9-10

The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked; who shall know it? I the LORD search the heart; I try the kidneys, even to give each man according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doings.

Leviticus 18:17

Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter; neither shalt thou take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter to uncover her nakedness; for they are her near kinswomen; it is wickedness.

Wickedness » Treasures of wickedness

Micah 6:10-12

Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked and the scant measure that is abominable? Can I be pure with false balances and with a bag of deceitful weights? With which their rich men are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

Wickedness » A large amount

Psalm 84:10

for a day in thy courts is better than a thousand outside of them. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

Wickedness » The time when the wicked rise

Proverbs 28:12

When the righteous rejoice, there is great glory, but when the wicked rise, the sane man hides himself.

Wickedness » What wickedness cannot do

Ecclesiastes 8:8

There is no man that has power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death, and weapons are of no use in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.

Wickedness » How the land becomes full of wickedness

Leviticus 19:29

Do not contaminate thy daughter, causing her to commit fornication, lest the land be prostituted, and the land become full of wickedness.

Wickedness » Nobody being established by wickedness

Proverbs 12:3

Man shall not be established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.

Wickedness » The plowing of the wicked

Wickedness » The lord hating wickedness

Wickedness » What lies in wickedness

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Isaiah 2:2-4

And it shall come to pass in the last of the days or times, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be confirmed as the head of the mountains and shall be exalted above the hills; and all the Gentiles shall flow unto it.

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