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 trieth the hearts and reins.
Woe to the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given 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 it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight 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 to 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 judgment, 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 thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou shalt find none.
Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art: and thy 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, saith the LORD, to the wicked.
Though wickedness may be sweet in his mouth, though he may hide it under his tongue;
For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.
And he will bring upon them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own wickedness; yes, the LORD our God will cut them off.
And I will deliver thee from the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee from the hand of the terrible.
Yet if thou shalt warn the wicked, and he shall not turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in 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 sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
When the wicked cometh, then cometh also contempt, and with ignominy reproach.
The wicked are estranged from their birth: 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 thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a door-keeper 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 who practice wickedness from the city of the LORD.
Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And why did he slay 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 evil-doers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?
Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.
A heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that are swift in running to mischief,
From Thematic Bible
Fire » Illustrative of » Wickedness
For wickedness burneth 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 rising of smoke.
Wickedness » Characteristics of
For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some 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 seed of evil-doers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel to anger, they are gone 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 for ever.
Wickedness » Contrasted with the righteous
Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall encompass him.
The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD upholdeth the righteous.
Wickedness » What wickedness does
Thy own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
For wickedness burneth 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 rising of smoke.
Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art: and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.
Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
Wickedness » What is wicked
And if a man shall take 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 can know it? I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every 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? Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights? For the rich men thereof 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. I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Wickedness » The time when the wicked rise
When righteous men rejoice, there is great glory: but when the wicked rise, a man is hidden.
Wickedness » What wickedness cannot do
There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
Wickedness » How the land becomes full of wickedness
Do not prostitute thy daughter to cause her to be a harlot: lest the land should fall to lewdness, 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
The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
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 mount of the LORD'S house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it.
