40 Bible Verses about wickedness

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Psalm 7:9

Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end, and may you establish the righteous-- you who test the minds and hearts, O righteous God!

Micah 2:1

Woe to those who devise wickedness and work evil on their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform 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 thrust her back into the basket, and thrust down the leaden weight on its opening.

Psalm 125:3

For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest on the land allotted to the righteous, lest the righteous stretch out their hands to do wrong.

Proverbs 12:3

No one is established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous will never be moved.

Psalm 140:8

Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked; do not further their evil plot, or they will be exalted! Selah

Ecclesiastes 3:16

Moreover, I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, even there was wickedness, and in the place of righteousness, even there was wickedness.

Psalm 10:15

Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; call his wickedness to account till you find none.

Job 35:8

Your wickedness concerns a man like yourself, and your righteousness a son of man.

Proverbs 25:5

take away the wicked from the presence of the king, and his throne will be established in righteousness.

Job 20:12

"Though evil is sweet in his mouth, though he hides it under his tongue,

Psalm 5:4

For you are not a God who delights in wickedness; evil may not dwell with you.

Psalm 94:23

He will bring back on them their iniquity and wipe them out for their wickedness; the LORD our God will wipe them out.

Psalm 129:4

The LORD is righteous; he has cut the cords of the wicked.

Proverbs 10:23

Doing wrong is like a joke to a fool, but wisdom is pleasure to a man of understanding.

Ezekiel 3:19

But if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness, or from his wicked way, he shall die for his iniquity, but you will have delivered your soul.

Proverbs 4:16

For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong; they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble.

Proverbs 18:3

When wickedness comes, contempt comes also, and with dishonor comes disgrace.

Proverbs 11:5

The righteousness of the blameless keeps his way straight, but the wicked falls by his own wickedness.

Psalm 84:10

For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness.

Psalm 101:8

Morning by morning I will destroy all the wicked in the land, cutting off all the evildoers from the city of the LORD.

Psalm 94:16

Who rises up for me against the wicked? Who stands up for me against evildoers?

Proverbs 11:21

Be assured, an evil person will not go unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will be delivered.

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Isaiah 9:18

For wickedness burns like a fire; it consumes briers and thorns; it kindles the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.

Wickedness » Characteristics of

Proverbs 4:16

For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong; they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble.

Isaiah 1:4

Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged.

Psalm 64:3

who whet their tongues like swords, who aim bitter words like arrows,

Jude 1:13

wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever.

Wickedness » Contrasted with the righteous

Psalm 37:17

For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but the LORDupholds the righteous.

Wickedness » What wickedness does

Jeremiah 2:19

Your evil will chastise you, and your apostasy will reprove you. Know and see that it is evil and bitter for you to forsake the LORD your God; the fear of me is not in you, declares the Lord GOD of hosts.

Isaiah 9:18

For wickedness burns like a fire; it consumes briers and thorns; it kindles the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.

Job 35:8

Your wickedness concerns a man like yourself, and your righteousness a son of man.

Proverbs 13:6

Righteousness guards him whose way is blameless, but sin overthrows the wicked.

Wickedness » What is wicked

Leviticus 20:14

If a man takes a woman and her mother also, it is depravity; he and they shall be burned with fire, that there may be no depravity among you.

Jeremiah 17:9-10

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? "I the LORD search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds."

Leviticus 18:17

You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and of her daughter, and you shall not take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter to uncover her nakedness; they are relatives; it is depravity.

Wickedness » Treasures of wickedness

Micah 6:10-12

Can I forget any longer the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is accursed? Shall I acquit the man with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful weights? Your rich men are full of violence; your inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

Wickedness » A large amount

Psalm 84:10

For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in 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, people hide themselves.

Wickedness » What wickedness cannot do

Ecclesiastes 8:8

No man has power to retain the spirit, or power over the day of death. There is no discharge from war, nor will wickedness deliver those who are given to it.

Wickedness » How the land becomes full of wickedness

Leviticus 19:29

"Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, lest the land fall into prostitution and the land become full of depravity.

Wickedness » Nobody being established by wickedness

Proverbs 12:3

No one is established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous will never 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

It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it,

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