40 Bible Verses about wickedness
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Let wickedness consume the wicked; but establish the just: for the righteous God is he who tries the hearts and kidneys.
Woe unto the wicked! It shall be ill with him, for according to the work of his hands it shall be done unto him.
Woe unto those that devise iniquity and fabricate evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they put it into effect because they have power in their hands.
Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked, from the insurrection 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 rod of wickedness shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous because the righteous shall not put forth their hands unto iniquity.
Man shall not be established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked; do not further his wicked thought lest they exalt themselves. Selah.
And moreover I saw under the sun that instead of judgment, there was wickedness; and instead of righteousness, that iniquity was there.
But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man; seek out his wickedness until thou find none.
Schin Evil shall slay the wicked; and those that hate the righteous shall be declared guilty.
Thy wickedness shall hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness shall profit the son of man.
Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.
There is no peace for the wicked, said the LORD.
For thou art not a God that loves wickedness; neither shall one who is evil dwell with thee.
And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the LORD our God shall cut them off.
To make an abomination is as sport to the fool, but wisdom is recreation to the man of intelligence.
And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will ransom thee out of the hand of the strong.
Yet if thou warn the wicked and he does not turn from his wickedness nor from his wicked way, he shall die for his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
For they do not sleep, unless they have done evil; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause someone to fall.
When the wicked comes, then comes also contempt, and with him who dishonours, reproach.
The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
The righteousness of the perfect shall straighten his way, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
for a day in thy courts is better than a thousand outside of them. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
I will early destroy all the wicked of the land, that I may cut off all the workers of iniquity from the city of the LORD.
Not as Cain, who was of the wicked one and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.
And that we may be delivered from perverse and wicked men, for the faith is not of everyone.
Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?
No matter how many covenants he has made with death, the wicked shall not be absolved, but the seed of the righteous shall escape.
From Thematic Bible
Fire » Illustrative of » Wickedness
For wickedness burns as the fire, it shall devour the briers and thorns and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
Wickedness » Characteristics of
For they do not sleep, unless they have done evil; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause someone to fall.
without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, without temperance, without meekness, without goodness,
O sinful nation, people laden with iniquity, generation of evildoers, corrupt sons! They have forsaken the LORD; they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger; they have turned back.
Who whet their tongue like a sword and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words
raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own abominations; erratic stars, to whom is reserved gross darkness eternally.
Wickedness » Contrasted with the righteous
There are many sorrows for the wicked; but he that waits in the LORD, mercy shall compass him round about.
Tribulation and anguish shall be upon every human soul that does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek;
For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but the LORD upholds the righteous.
Wickedness » What wickedness does
Thine own wickedness shall chastise thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee; know therefore and see how evil and bitter it is, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God and that my fear is lacking in thee, saith the Lord GOD of the hosts.
For wickedness burns as the fire, it shall devour the briers and thorns and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
Thy wickedness shall hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness shall profit the son of man.
Wickedness » What is wicked
And if a man takes a wife and her mother, it is wickedness; they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you.
The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked; who shall know it? I the LORD search the heart; I try the kidneys, even to give each man according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doings.
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter; neither shalt thou take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter to uncover her nakedness; for they are her near kinswomen; it is wickedness.
Wickedness » Treasures of wickedness
Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked and the scant measure that is abominable? Can I be pure with false balances and with a bag of deceitful weights? With which their rich men are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Wickedness » A large amount
for a day in thy courts is better than a thousand outside of them. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Wickedness » The time when the wicked rise
When the righteous rejoice, there is great glory, but when the wicked rise, the sane man hides himself.
Wickedness » What wickedness cannot do
There is no man that has power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death, and weapons are of no use in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
Wickedness » How the land becomes full of wickedness
Do not contaminate thy daughter, causing her to commit fornication, lest the land be prostituted, and the land become full of wickedness.
Wickedness » Nobody being established by wickedness
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
Topics on Wickedness
Millennial Kingdom, Christ Crushes Wickedness
Isaiah 2:2-4And it shall come to pass in the last of the days or times, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be confirmed as the head of the mountains and shall be exalted above the hills; and all the Gentiles shall flow unto it.
