40 Bible Verses about wickedness

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Psalm 7:9

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.

Micah 2:1

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.

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 sceptre of wickedness shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto 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 Jehovah, the desire of the wicked; further not his device: they would exalt themselves. Selah.

Ecclesiastes 3:16

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.

Proverbs 2:22

but the wicked shall be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful shall be plucked up out of it.

Psalm 10:15

Break thou the arm of the wicked, and as for the evil man, seek out his wickedness till thou find none.

Job 35:8

Thy wickedness may affect a man as thou art, and thy righteousness 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 and he hide it under his tongue,

Psalm 5:4

For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness; evil shall not sojourn with thee.

Psalm 94:23

And he will bring upon them their iniquity, and will cut them off in their own evil: Jehovah our God will cut them off.

Psalm 129:4

Jehovah is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.

Proverbs 10:23

It is as sport to a foolish man to do wickedness; but a man of understanding hath wisdom.

Jeremiah 15:21

yea, 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

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.

Proverbs 4:16

For they sleep not except they have done mischief, and their sleep is taken away unless they have caused some to fall.

Proverbs 18:3

When the wicked cometh, there cometh also contempt, and with ignominy reproach.

Proverbs 11:5

The righteousness of the perfect maketh plain his way; but the wicked falleth by his own wickedness.

Psalm 84:10

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.

Psalm 101:8

Every morning will I destroy all the wicked of the land: to cut off all workers of iniquity from the city of Jehovah.

Psalm 94:16

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

Proverbs 11:21

Hand for hand! an evil man shall not be held innocent; but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.

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Fire » Illustrative of » Wickedness

Isaiah 9:18

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

Proverbs 4:16

For they sleep not except they have done mischief, and their sleep is taken away unless they have caused some to fall.

Isaiah 1:4

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.

Psalm 64:3

Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword, and have aimed their arrow, a bitter word;

Jude 1:13

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

Psalm 37:17

for the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but Jehovah upholdeth the righteous.

Wickedness » What wickedness does

Jeremiah 2:19

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.

Isaiah 9:18

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.

Job 35:8

Thy wickedness may affect a man as thou art, and thy righteousness a son of man.

Proverbs 13:6

Righteousness preserveth him that is perfect in the way; but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.

Wickedness » What is wicked

Jeremiah 17:9-10

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.

Leviticus 18:17

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

Micah 6:10-12

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

Psalm 84:10

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

Proverbs 28:12

When the righteous triumph, there is great glory; but when the wicked rise, men conceal themselves.

Wickedness » What wickedness cannot do

Ecclesiastes 8:8

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

Leviticus 19:29

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

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 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.

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