40 Bible Verses about wickedness
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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!
Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him, for what his hands have dealt out shall be done to him.
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.
Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of the evil.
Hide me from the secret plots of the wicked, from the throng of evildoers,
And he said, "This is Wickedness." And he thrust her back into the basket, and thrust down the leaden weight on its opening.
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.
No one is established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous will never be moved.
Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked; do not further their evil plot, or they will be exalted! Selah
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.
but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.
Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; call his wickedness to account till you find none.
Affliction will slay the wicked, and those who hate the righteous will be condemned.
Your wickedness concerns a man like yourself, and your righteousness a son of man.
We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
take away the wicked from the presence of the king, and his throne will be established in righteousness.
And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!
For you are not a God who delights in wickedness; evil may not dwell with you.
He will bring back on them their iniquity and wipe them out for their wickedness; the LORD our God will wipe them out.
Doing wrong is like a joke to a fool, but wisdom is pleasure to a man of understanding.
I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and redeem you from the grasp of the ruthless."
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.
The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong; they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble.
When wickedness comes, contempt comes also, and with dishonor comes disgrace.
The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray from birth, speaking lies.
The righteousness of the blameless keeps his way straight, but the wicked falls by his own wickedness.
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.
Morning by morning I will destroy all the wicked in the land, cutting off all the evildoers from the city of the LORD.
We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous.
and that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men. For not all have faith.
Who rises up for me against the wicked? Who stands up for me against evildoers?
Be assured, an evil person will not go unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will be delivered.
a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil,
From Thematic Bible
Fire » Illustrative of » Wickedness
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
For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong; they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble.
heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good,
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.
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
Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but steadfast love surrounds the one who trusts in the LORD.
The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion.
The LORDtests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence.
There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek,
For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but the LORDupholds the righteous.
Wickedness » What wickedness does
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.
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.
Your wickedness concerns a man like yourself, and your righteousness a son of man.
Righteousness guards him whose way is blameless, but sin overthrows the wicked.
Wickedness » What is wicked
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.
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."
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
Better is the little that the righteous has than the abundance of many wicked.
Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death.
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
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.
Better is the little that the righteous has than the abundance of many wicked.
Wickedness » The time when the wicked rise
When the righteous triumph, there is great glory, but when the wicked rise, people hide themselves.
Wickedness » What wickedness cannot do
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
"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
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
The LORDtests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence.
Wickedness » What lies in wickedness
We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
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Millennial Kingdom, Christ Crushes Wickedness
Isaiah 2:2-4It 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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