40 Bible Verses about wickedness
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Oh let the wrong of the wicked come to an end, and establish thou the righteous man; even thou that triest the hearts and reins, the righteous God.
Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him, because the desert of his hands shall be rendered 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 tumultuous crowd 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 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; lest the righteous put 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 desire of the wicked; further not his device: they would exalt themselves. Selah.
And moreover I saw under the sun, that in the place of judgment, wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, wickedness was there.
but the wicked shall be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful shall be plucked up 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 affect a man as thou art, and thy righteousness 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, unto the wicked.
For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness; evil shall not sojourn with thee.
And he will bring upon them their iniquity, and will cut them off in their own evil: Jehovah our God will cut them off.
It is as sport to a foolish man to do wickedness; but a man of understanding hath wisdom.
yea, I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.
But 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 on the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart only evil continually.
For they sleep not except they have done mischief, and their sleep is taken away unless they have caused some to fall.
When the wicked cometh, there cometh also contempt, and with ignominy reproach.
The righteousness of the perfect maketh plain his way; but the wicked falleth by his own wickedness.
For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather stand at the threshold of the house of my God, than dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Every morning will I destroy all the wicked of the land: to cut off all workers of iniquity from the city of Jehovah.
not as Cain was of the wicked one, and slew his brother; and on account of what slew he him? because his works were wicked, and those of his brother righteous.
and that we may be delivered from bad and evil men, for faith is not the portion of all.
Who will rise up for me against the evil-doers? who will stand for me against the workers of iniquity?
Hand for hand! an evil man shall not be held innocent; but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.
a heart that deviseth wicked imaginations; feet that are swift in running to mischief;
From Thematic Bible
Fire » Illustrative of » Wickedness
For wickedness burneth as a fire: it devoureth briars and thorns, and kindleth in the thickets of the forest, and they go rolling up like a pillar of smoke.
Wickedness » Characteristics of
For they sleep not except they have done mischief, and their sleep is taken away unless they have caused some to fall.
without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, of unsubdued passions, savage, having no love for what is good,
Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that corrupt themselves! They have forsaken Jehovah; they have despised the Holy One of Israel; they are turned away backward.
Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword, and have aimed their arrow, a bitter word;
raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shames; wandering stars, to whom has been reserved the gloom of darkness for eternity.
Wickedness » Contrasted with the righteous
Many sorrows hath the wicked; but he that confideth in Jehovah, loving-kindness shall encompass him.
Jehovah trieth the righteous one; but the wicked, and him that loveth violence, his soul hateth.
tribulation and distress, on every soul of man that works evil, both of Jew first, and of Greek;
for the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but Jehovah upholdeth the righteous.
Wickedness » What wickedness does
Thine own wickedness chastiseth thee, and thy backslidings reprove thee: know then and see that it is an evil thing and 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 a fire: it devoureth briars and thorns, and kindleth in the thickets of the forest, and they go rolling up like a pillar of smoke.
Thy wickedness may affect a man as thou art, and thy righteousness a son of man.
Righteousness preserveth him that is perfect in the way; but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
Wickedness » What is wicked
And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is infamy: they shall burn him and them with fire, that there be no infamy among you.
The heart is deceitful above all things, and incurable; who can know it? I Jehovah search the heart, I try the reins, even to give each one according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
The nakedness of a woman and her daughter shalt thou not uncover; thou shalt not take her son's daughter, nor her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness: they are her near relations: it is wickedness.
Wickedness » Treasures of wickedness
Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure which is abominable? Shall I be pure with the unjust balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights? For her rich men are full of violence, and her inhabitants speak 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 stand at the threshold of the house of my God, than 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 conceal themselves.
Wickedness » What wickedness cannot do
There is no man who hath control over the spirit to retain the spirit; and no one hath control over the day of death; and there is no discharge in that war, neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
Wickedness » How the land becomes full of wickedness
Do not profane thy daughter, to give her up to whoredom; lest the land practise whoredom, and the land become full of infamy.
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 one; 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 end of days, that the mountain of Jehovah's house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow unto it.