40 Bible Verses about wickedness
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Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God tests the minds and hearts.
Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be done to him.
Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
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 basket; and he cast the cover of lead upon its mouth.
For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity.
A 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: further not his wicked device; lest they exalt themselves. Selah.
And moreover I saw under the sun the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and the place 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 the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till you find none.
Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are; and your righteousness may 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, says the LORD, unto the wicked.
Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;
For you are not a God that has pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with you.
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.
And I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem you out of the hand of the terrible.
Yet if you warn the wicked, and he turns not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your 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 sleep not, unless they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause someone to fall.
When the wicked comes, then comes also contempt, and with dishonor comes 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 direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I had 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 wicked doers from the city of the LORD.
Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And why slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.
And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not faith.
Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?
Though they join hand to hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the descendants of the righteous shall be delivered.
From Thematic Bible
Fire » Illustrative of » Wickedness
For wickedness burns as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the rising of smoke.
Wickedness » Characteristics of
For they sleep not, unless they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause someone to fall.
Without natural affection, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a descendant of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they have turned away backward.
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 shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.
Wickedness » Contrasted with the righteous
Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusts in the LORD, mercy shall surround him.
Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that does evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Greek;
For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD upholds the righteous.
Wickedness » What wickedness does
Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backslidings shall reprove you: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that you have forsaken the LORD your God, and that my fear is not in you, says the Lord GOD of hosts.
For wickedness burns as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the rising of smoke.
Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are; and your righteousness may profit the son of man.
Righteousness keeps him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthrows the sinner.
Wickedness » What is wicked
And if a man takes a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burned with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you.
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? I the LORD search the heart, I test the mind, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, neither shall you 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 short measure that is abominable? Shall I count those pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights? For her rich men are full of violence, and her inhabitants have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Wickedness » A large amount
For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I had 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 righteous men do rejoice, there is great glory: but when the wicked rise, men hide themselves.
Wickedness » What wickedness cannot do
There is no man that has power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither has he power in the day of death: and there is no release from that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
Wickedness » How the land becomes full of wickedness
Do not prostitute your daughter, to cause her to be a harlot; lest the land fall into harlotry, and the land become full of wickedness.
Wickedness » Nobody being established by wickedness
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
Topics on Wickedness
Millennial Kingdom, Christ Crushes Wickedness
Isaiah 2:2-4And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
