40 Bible Verses about wickedness
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Let the wrong of the lawless, I pray thee, come to an end, and establish thou him that is righteous, - for, a trier of hearts and reins, is God the righteous one.
Alas! for the lawless, it is ill, For what his own hand hath matured, shall he done to him.
Alas for them who devise iniquity and work wickedness upon their beds, - in the light of the morning, they will execute it, for it is in the power of their hand.
Upon the path of the lawless, do not thou enter, and do not advance in the way of the wicked:
Wilt thou hide me, From the conclave of evil-doers, From the crowd of workers of iniquity.
For they consume bread gotten by lawlessness, and, wine obtained by violence, they drink.
Then said he, This, is Lawlessness. So he thrust her back inside the ephah, - and then thrust the leaden weight into the mouth thereof.
For the sceptre of lawlessness shall not remain over the allotment of the righteous, - lest the righteous put forth - unto perversity - their hands.
A son of earth, shall not be established, by lawlessness, but, the root of the righteous, shall not be disturbed.
Do not grant, O Yahweh, the desires of the lawless one, his device, do not promote, They would exalt themselves. Selah.
Then, again, I saw under the sun, the place of justice, that there was lawlessness, and, the place of righteousness, that there was lawlessness.
But, the lawless, out of the earth, shall he cut off, and, traitors, shall they tear away therefrom.
Shatter thou the arm of the lawless one, And, as for the wrongful, wilt thou not enquire for his lawlessness - wilt thou not find it ?
Misfortune shall be the death of the lawless one, And, the haters of the righteous man, shall be held guilty.
Unto a man like thyself, might thy lawlessness reach , and, unto a son of the earth-born, thy righteousness.
Remove a lawless man from before the king, that his throne, may be established in righteousness.
No well-being, saith Yahweh to the lawless,
Though, a sweet taste in his mouth, be given by vice, though he hide it under his tongue;
For, not a GOD finding pleasure in lawlessness, art thou, and wrong can be no guest of thine:
Thus hath he brought back on them their iniquity, And, by their own wickedness, will he destroy them, Destroy them, will Yahweh our God.
It is, mere sport to a stupid man, to commit lewdness, but, wisdom, pertaineth to a man of understanding.
Thus will I deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, - And redeem thee out of the grasp of the tyrants.
Whereas when thou hast warned a lawless man, and he hath not turned from his lawlessness and from his lawless way he in his iniquity shall die, but Thou hast delivered thine own soul.
Then Yahweh saw that great, was the wickedness of man in the earth, and that, every purpose of the devices of his heart, was only wicked all the day;
For they sleep not, unless they can do mischief, - They rob themselves of their sleep, if they cannot cause someone to stumble,
When the lawless man cometh in, then cometh also contempt, and, with shame, reproach.
Lawless men have been estranged from birth, They have gone astray from their nativity, speaking falsehood;
The righteousness of the blameless, shall smooth his way, but, by his own lawlessness, shall the lawless one, fall.
For better is a day in thy courts, than a thousand, I choose rather to stand at the threshold in the house of my God, Than to dwell in the tents of lawlessness.
Morning by morning, will I uproot, All the lawless ones of the land, That I may cut off, out of the city of Yahweh - All the workers of iniquity.
Not just as, Cain, was, of the wicked one, and slew his brother! And, for what cause, slew he him? Because, his works, were, wicked, whereas, those of his brother, were, righteous.
And that we may be rescued from the presuming and wicked men; for, not all, hold the faith.
Who will rise up for me, against the evil-doers? Who will make a stand for me, against the workers of iniquity?
Hand to hand, the wicked man shall not be held innocent, but, the seed of the righteous, hath been delivered.
From Thematic Bible
Fire » Illustrative of » Wickedness
For lawlessness, hath consumed like fire, Briars and thorns, doth it devour, - Yea it hath kindled upon the thickets of the forest, And they have rolled up as a column of smoke.
Wickedness » Characteristics of
For they sleep not, unless they can do mischief, - They rob themselves of their sleep, if they cannot cause someone to stumble,
without natural affection, accepting no truce, given to intrigue, without self-control, uncivilized, unfriendly to good men,
Alas! a nation - committing sin, a people - burdened with iniquity, a seed - practising wickedness, sons - acting corruptly. They have forsaken Yahweh despised the Holy One of Israel, - Are estranged and gone back.
Who have sharpened, like a sword, their tongue, Have made ready their arrow - a bitter word;
Wild waves of sea, foaming out their own infamies, wandering stars, for whom the gloom of darkness age-abiding hath been reserved.
Wickedness » Contrasted with the righteous
Many pains, hath the lawless one, - But, he that trusteth in Yahweh, Lovingkindness, shall compass him about.
The lawless, fleeth when no man pursueth, but, the righteous, like a lion, are confident.
Yahweh, putteth, the righteous, to the test, - But the lawless one and the lover of violence, his soul doth hate.
tribulation and anguish - against every soul of man who worketh out what is base, both of Jew first and of Greek, -
For, the arms of the lawless, shall be broken, But Yahweh is upholding the righteous.
Wickedness » What wickedness does
Let thy wickedness correct thee And thine apostasies, rebuke thee, Know therefore and see That it is a wicked thing and a bitter, that thou shouldest have forsaken Yahweh thy God, And that the dread of me should not have pertained to thee, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh of hosts.
For lawlessness, hath consumed like fire, Briars and thorns, doth it devour, - Yea it hath kindled upon the thickets of the forest, And they have rolled up as a column of smoke.
Unto a man like thyself, might thy lawlessness reach , and, unto a son of the earth-born, thy righteousness.
Righteousness, guardeth the man of blameless way, but, lawlessness, overthroweth the sinner.
Wickedness » What is wicked
And, any man, who taketh a woman and her mother, wickedness, it is, - in fire, shall both he and they be consumed, that wickedness be not in your midst.
Deceitful is the heart above all things And, dangerously wayward, - Who can know it? I - Yahweh, Searching the heart, Testing the affections; And giving to every man According to his way, According to the fruit of his doings.
The shame of a woman, and of her daughter, shalt thou not uncover, - neither the daughter of her son nor the laughter of her daughter, shalt thou take, to uncover her shame, near of kin, they are, wickedness, it is.
Wickedness » Treasures of wickedness
Better the little of the righteous man, than the abundance of the lawless who are mighty;
The treasures of lawlessness, do not profit, but, righteousness, delivereth from death.
Even yet, are there, in the house of the lawless one, the treasures of lawlessness, - and the scant measure - accurst? Shall I be pure with lawless balances? or with bag of deceitful weights? For, her rich men, are full of violence, and, her inhabitants, have spoken falsehood, - and, their tongue, is deceitful in their mouth.
Wickedness » A large amount
For better is a day in thy courts, than a thousand, I choose rather to stand at the threshold in the house of my God, Than to dwell in the tents of lawlessness.
Better the little of the righteous man, than the abundance of the lawless who are mighty;
Wickedness » The time when the wicked rise
In the exulting of the righteous, there is great glorying, but, when the lawless arise, a man must be sought for.
Wickedness » What wickedness cannot do
No man, hath power over the spirit, to retain the spirit, and, none, hath power over the day of death, and there is no furlough in war, - neither shall lawlessness deliver them who are given thereto.
Wickedness » How the land becomes full of wickedness
Do not profane thy daughter by causing her to be unchaste, - lest the land fall to unchastity, and so the land be filled with wickedness.
Wickedness » Nobody being established by wickedness
A son of earth, shall not be established, by lawlessness, but, the root of the righteous, shall not be disturbed.
Wickedness » The plowing of the wicked
Wickedness » The lord hating wickedness
Yahweh, putteth, the righteous, to the test, - But the lawless one and the lover of violence, his soul doth hate.
Wickedness » What lies in wickedness
Topics on Wickedness
Millennial Kingdom, Christ Crushes Wickedness
Isaiah 2:2-4But it shall come to pass, in the afterpart of the days, That the mountain of the house of Yahweh Shall be, set up, as the head of the mountains, And be exalted above the hills, - And all the nations, shall stream thereunto;
