40 Bible Verses about wickedness

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Psalm 7:9

O let the wickedness of the wicked man come to an end, but establish thou the righteous man. For the righteous God tries the minds and hearts.

Micah 2:1

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

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 down into the midst of the ephah, and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth of it.

Psalm 125:3

For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous, that the righteous not put forth their hands to iniquity.

Proverbs 12:3

A 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 man. Do not further his evil device. They exalt themselves. Selah.

Ecclesiastes 3:16

And moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there, and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.

Proverbs 2:22

But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, and the treacherous shall be rooted out of it.

Psalm 10:15

Break thou the arm of the sinner and the evil man. His wickedness shall be sought, and shall not be found.

Job 35:8

Thy wickedness [is] a man as thou are, and thy righteousness [is] a 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

Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,

Psalm 5:4

For thou are not a God who has pleasure in wickedness. Evil shall not sojourn with thee.

Psalm 94:23

And he has brought upon them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own wickedness. LORD our God will cut them off.

Psalm 129:4

LORD is righteous. He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.

Proverbs 10:23

It is as sport to a fool to do mischief, and [so is] wisdom to a man of understanding.

Jeremiah 15:21

And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.

Ezekiel 3:19

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

Proverbs 18:3

When a wicked man comes, contempt also comes, and with disgrace, reproach.

Proverbs 11:5

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

Psalm 84:10

For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

Psalm 101:8

Morning by morning I will destroy all the wicked of the land, to cut off all the workers of iniquity from the city of LORD.

Psalm 94:16

Who will rise up for me against the evil-doers? Who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?

Proverbs 11:21

Hand in hand, the evil man shall not be unpunished, but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.

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Fire » Illustrative of » Wickedness

Isaiah 9:18

For wickedness burns as the fire. It devours the briers and thorns. Yea, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.

Wickedness » Characteristics of

Isaiah 1:4

Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evil-doers, sons who deal corruptly! They have forsaken LORD. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They have gone away backward.

Psalm 64:3

who have whet their tongue like a sword, and have aimed their arrows, even bitter words,

Jude 1:13

wild waves of the sea foaming out their own shame, wandering stars for whom the gloom of darkness has been reserved into an age.

Wickedness » Contrasted with the righteous

Psalm 37:17

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

Wickedness » What wickedness does

Jeremiah 2:19

Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee. Know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that thou have forsaken LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, says the Lord, L

Isaiah 9:18

For wickedness burns as the fire. It devours the briers and thorns. Yea, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.

Job 35:8

Thy wickedness [is] a man as thou are, and thy righteousness [is] a son of man.

Proverbs 13:6

Righteousness guards him who is upright in the 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 it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it? I, LORD, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

Leviticus 18:17

Thou shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter. Thou shall not take her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness. They are near kinswomen. It is iniquity.

Wickedness » Treasures of wickedness

Micah 6:10-12

Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a scant measure that is abominable? Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights? For the rich men of it are full of violence, and the inhabitants of it 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. I had 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 triumph, there is great glory, but when the wicked rise, men hide themselves.

Wickedness » What wickedness cannot do

Ecclesiastes 8:8

There is no man who has power over the spirit to retain the spirit, nor has he power over the day of death. And there is no discharge in war. Neither shall wickedness deliver him who is given to it.

Wickedness » How the land becomes full of wickedness

Leviticus 19:29

Do not profane thy daughter, to make her a harlot, lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.

Wickedness » Nobody being established by wickedness

Proverbs 12:3

A 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 latter days, that the mountain of LORD's house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow to it.

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