37 Bible Verses about wickedness
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O let the evil of the evil-doer come to an end, but give strength to the upright: for men's minds and hearts are tested by the God of righteousness.
A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power.
Keep me safe from the secret purpose of wrongdoers; from the band of the workers of evil;
The bread of evil-doing is their food, the wine of violent acts their drink.
And he said, This is Sin; and pushing her down into the ephah, he put the weight of lead on the mouth of it.
No man will make himself safe through evil-doing; but the root of upright men will never be moved.
O Lord, give not the wrongdoer his desire; give him no help in his evil designs, or he may be uplifted in pride. (Selah.)
And again, I saw under the sun, in the place of the judges, that evil was there; and in the place of righteousness, that evil was there.
But sinners will be cut off from the land, and those whose acts are false will be uprooted.
Let the arm of the sinner and the evil-doer be broken; go on searching for his sin till there is no more.
Evil will put an end to the sinner, and those who are haters of righteousness will come to destruction.
Your evil-doing may have an effect on a man like yourself, or your righteousness on a son of man.
Take away evil-doers from before the king, and the seat of his power will be made strong in righteousness.
There is no peace, says the Lord, for the evil-doers.
Though evil-doing is sweet in his mouth, and he keeps it secretly under his tongue;
For you are not a God who takes pleasure in wrongdoing; there is no evil with you.
And he has made their evil designs come back on themselves, cutting them off in their sin; the Lord our God will put an end to them.
It is sport to the foolish man to do evil, but the man of good sense takes delight in wisdom.
I will keep you safe from the hands of the evil-doers, and I will give you salvation from the hands of the cruel ones.
But if you give the evil-doer word of his danger, and he is not turned from his sin or from his evil way, death will overtake him in his evil-doing; but your life will be safe.
And the Lord saw that the sin of man was great on the earth, and that all the thoughts of his heart were evil.
For they take no rest till they have done evil; their sleep is taken away if they have not been the cause of someone's fall.
When the evil-doer comes, a low opinion comes with him, and with the loss of honour comes shame.
The evil-doers are strange from the first; from the hour of their birth they go out of the true way, saying false words.
The righteousness of the good man will make his way straight, but the sin of the evil-doer will be the cause of his fall.
For a day in your house is better than a thousand. It is better to be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to be living in the tents of sin.
Not being of the Evil One like Cain, who put his brother to death. And why did he put him to death? Because his works were evil and his brother's works were good.
Who will give me help against the sinners? and who will be my support against the workers of evil?
Certainly the evil-doer will not go free from punishment, but the seed of the upright man will be safe.
From Thematic Bible
Fire » Illustrative of » Wickedness
For evil was burning like a fire; the blackberries and thorns were burned up; the thick woods took fire, rolling up in dark clouds of smoke.
Wickedness » Characteristics of
For they take no rest till they have done evil; their sleep is taken away if they have not been the cause of someone's fall.
Without natural love, bitter haters, saying evil of others, violent and uncontrolled, hating all good,
O nation full of sin, a people weighted down with crime, a generation of evil-doers, false-hearted children: they have gone away from the Lord, they have no respect for the Holy One of Israel, their hearts are turned back from him.
Who make their tongues sharp like a sword, and whose arrows are pointed, even bitter words;
Violent waves of the sea, streaming with their shame, wandering stars for whom the darkest night is kept in store for ever.
Wickedness » Contrasted with the righteous
The sinner will be full of trouble; but mercy will be round the man who has faith in the Lord.
The evil man goes running away when no man is after him, but the upright are without fear, like the lion.
The Lord puts the upright and the sinner to the test, but he has hate in his soul for the lover of violent acts.
For the arms of the evil-doers will be broken: but the Lord is the support of the good.
Wickedness » What wickedness does
The evil you yourselves have done will be your punishment, your errors will be your judge: be certain then, and see that it is an evil and a bitter thing to give up the Lord your God, and no longer to be moved by fear of me, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.
For evil was burning like a fire; the blackberries and thorns were burned up; the thick woods took fire, rolling up in dark clouds of smoke.
Your evil-doing may have an effect on a man like yourself, or your righteousness on a son of man.
Righteousness keeps safe him whose way is without error, but evil-doers are overturned by sin.
Wickedness » What is wicked
And if a man takes as wife a woman and her mother, it is an act of shame; let them be burned with fire, all three of them, so that there may be no shame among you.
The heart is a twisted thing, not to be searched out by man: who is able to have knowledge of it? I the Lord am the searcher of the heart, the tester of the thoughts, so that I may give to every man the reward of his ways, in keeping with the fruit of his doings.
You may not take as wife a woman and her daughter, or her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter, for they are of one family: it is an act of shame.
Wickedness » Treasures of wickedness
Wealth which comes from sin is of no profit, but righteousness gives salvation from death.
Am I to let the stores of the evil-doer go out of my memory, and the short measure, which is cursed? Is it possible for me to let wrong scales and the bag of false weights go without punishment? For its men of wealth are cruel, and its people have said what is not true, and their tongue is false in their mouth.
Wickedness » A large amount
For a day in your house is better than a thousand. It is better to be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to be living in the tents of sin.
Wickedness » The time when the wicked rise
When the upright do well, there is great glory; but when evil-doers are lifted up, men do not let themselves be seen.
Wickedness » What wickedness cannot do
No man has authority over the wind, to keep the wind; or is ruler over the day of his death. In war no man's time is free, and evil will not keep the sinner safe.
Wickedness » How the land becomes full of wickedness
Do not make your daughter common by letting her become a loose woman, for fear that the land may become full of shame.
Wickedness » Nobody being established by wickedness
No man will make himself safe through evil-doing; but the root of upright men will never be moved.
Wickedness » The plowing of the wicked
Wickedness » The lord hating wickedness
The Lord puts the upright and the sinner to the test, but he has hate in his soul for the lover of violent acts.
Wickedness » What lies in wickedness
Topics on Wickedness
Millennial Kingdom, Christ Crushes Wickedness
Isaiah 2:2-4And it will come about in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord will be placed on the top of the mountains, and be lifted up over the hills; and all nations will come to it.
