40 Bible Verses about wickedness
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O let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish thou the righteous: For the righteous God trieth the minds and hearts.
Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him ; for what his hands have done shall be done unto him.
Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
Hide me from the secret counsel of evil-doers, From the tumult of the workers of iniquity;
For they eat the bread of wickedness, And drink the wine of violence.
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 thereof.
For the sceptre of wickedness shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; That the righteous put not forth their hands unto iniquity.
A man shall not be established by wickedness; But the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
Grant not, O Jehovah, the desires of the wicked; Further not his evil device, lest they exalt themselves. Selah
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.
But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, And the treacherous shall be rooted out of it.
Break thou the arm of the wicked; And as for the evil man, seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; And thy righteousness may profit a son of man.
Take away the wicked from before the king, And his throne shall be established in righteousness.
There is no peace, saith Jehovah, to the wicked.
Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, Though he hide it under his tongue,
For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: Evil shall not sojourn with thee.
And he hath brought upon them their own iniquity, And will cut them off in their own wickedness; Jehovah our God will cut them off.
It is as sport to a fool to do wickedness; And'so is wisdom to a man of understanding.
And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.
Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
For they sleep not, except they do evil; And their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
When the wicked cometh, there cometh also contempt, And with ignominy cometh reproach.
The wicked are estranged from the womb: They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way; But the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
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.
Morning by morning will I destroy all the wicked of the land; To cut off all the workers of iniquity from the city of Jehovah.
not as Cain was of the evil one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his works were evil, and his brother's righteous.
and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and evil men; for all have not faith.
Who will rise up for me against the evil-doers? Who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?
Though hand join in hand, the evil man shall not be unpunished; But the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.
From Thematic Bible
Fire » Illustrative of » Wickedness
For wickedness burneth as the fire; it devoureth the briers and thorns; yea, it kindleth in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.
Wickedness » Characteristics of
For they sleep not, except they do evil; And their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,
Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evil-doers, children that deal corruptly! they have forsaken Jehovah, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are estranged and gone backward.
Who have whet their tongue like a sword, And have aimed their arrows, even bitter words,
Wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness hath been reserved forever.
Wickedness » Contrasted with the righteous
Many sorrows shall be to the wicked; But he that trusteth in Jehovah, lovingkindness shall compass him about.
Jehovah trieth the righteous; But the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that worketh evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Greek;
For the arms of the wicked shall be broken; But Jehovah upholdeth the righteous.
Wickedness » What wickedness does
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 hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.
For wickedness burneth as the fire; it devoureth the briers and thorns; yea, it kindleth in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.
Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; And thy righteousness may profit a son of man.
Righteousness guardeth him that is upright in the way; But wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
Wickedness » What is wicked
And if a man take 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.
The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it? I, Jehovah, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter; thou shalt not take her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; they are near kinswomen: it is wickedness.
Wickedness » Treasures of wickedness
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 thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Wickedness » A large amount
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
When the righteous triumph, there is great glory; But when the wicked rise, men hide themselves.
Wickedness » What wickedness cannot do
There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power over the day of death; and there is no discharge in war: neither shall wickedness deliver him that is given to it.
Wickedness » How the land becomes full of wickedness
Profane not 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
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
Jehovah trieth the righteous; But the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
Wickedness » What lies in wickedness
Topics on Wickedness
Millennial Kingdom, Christ Crushes Wickedness
Isaiah 2:2-4And it shall come to pass in the latter days, that the mountain of Jehovah's house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
