40 Bible Verses about wickedness
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Let, I pray Thee be ended the evil of the wicked, And establish Thou the righteous, And a trier of hearts and reins is the righteous God.
Woe to those devising iniquity, And working evil on their beds, In the light of the morning they do it, For their hand is -- to God.
For they have eaten bread of wickedness, And wine of violence they drink.
And he saith, 'This is the wicked woman.' And he casteth her unto the midst of the ephah, and casteth the weight of lead on its mouth.
For the rod of wickedness resteth not On the lot of the righteous, That the righteous put not forth on iniquity their hands.
A man is not established by wickedness, And the root of the righteous is not moved.
Grant not, O Jehovah, the desires of the wicked, His wicked device bring not forth, They are high. Selah.
And again, I have seen under the sun the place of judgment -- there is the wicked; and the place of righteousness -- there is the wicked.
Break the arm of the wicked and the evil, Seek out his wickedness, find none;
For a man like thyself is thy wickedness, And for a son of man thy righteousness.
Take away the wicked before a king, And established in righteousness is his throne.
There is no peace, said Jehovah, to the wicked!
For not a God desiring wickedness art Thou, Evil inhabiteth Thee not.
And turneth back on them their iniquity, And in their wickedness cutteth them off; Jehovah our God doth cut them off!
And I have delivered thee from the hand of evil doers, And I have ransomed thee From the hand of the terrible!
And thou, because thou hast warned the wicked, and he hath not turned back from his wickedness, and from his wicked way, he in his iniquity dieth, and thou thy soul hast delivered.
And Jehovah seeth that abundant is the wickedness of man in the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart only evil all the day;
For they sleep not if they do not evil, And their sleep hath been taken violently away, If they cause not some to stumble.
With the coming of the wicked come also hath contempt, And with shame -- reproach.
The wicked have been estranged from the womb, They have erred from the belly, speaking lies.
The righteousness of the perfect maketh right his way, And by his wickedness doth the wicked fall.
For good is a day in Thy courts, O Teacher! I have chosen rather to be at the threshold, In the house of my God, Than to dwell in tents of wickedness.
At morning I cut off all the wicked of the land, To cut off from the city of Jehovah All the workers of iniquity!
not as Cain -- of the evil one he was, and he did slay his brother, and wherefore did he slay him? because his works were evil, and those of his brother righteous.
and that we may be delivered from the unreasonable and evil men, for the faith is not of all;
Who riseth up for me with evil doers? Who stationeth himself for me with workers of iniquity?
Hand to hand, the wicked is not acquitted, And the seed of the righteous hath escaped.
From Thematic Bible
Fire » Illustrative of » Wickedness
For burned as a fire hath wickedness, Brier and thorn it devoureth, And it kindleth in thickets of the forest, And they lift themselves up, an exaltation of smoke!
Wickedness » Characteristics of
For they sleep not if they do not evil, And their sleep hath been taken violently away, If they cause not some to stumble.
without natural affection, implacable, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, not lovers of those who are good,
Ah, sinning nation, a people heavy with iniquity, A seed of evil doers, sons -- corrupters! They have forsaken Jehovah, They have despised the Holy One of Israel, They have gone away backward.
Who sharpened as a sword their tongue, They directed their arrow -- a bitter word.
wild waves of a sea, foaming out their own shames; stars going astray, to whom the gloom of the darkness to the age hath been kept.
Wickedness » Contrasted with the righteous
Many are the pains of the wicked; As to him who is trusting in Jehovah, Kindness doth compass him.
The wicked have fled and there is no pursuer. And the righteous as a young lion is confident.
Jehovah the righteous doth try. And the wicked and the lover of violence, Hath His soul hated,
tribulation and distress, upon every soul of man that is working the evil, both of Jew first, and of Greek;
For the arms of the wicked are shivered, And Jehovah is sustaining the righteous.
Wickedness » What wickedness does
Instruct thee doth thy wickedness, And thy backslidings reprove thee, Know and see that an evil and a bitter thing Is thy forsaking Jehovah thy God, And My fear not being on thee, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah of Hosts.
For burned as a fire hath wickedness, Brier and thorn it devoureth, And it kindleth in thickets of the forest, And they lift themselves up, an exaltation of smoke!
For a man like thyself is thy wickedness, And for a son of man thy righteousness.
Righteousness keepeth him who is perfect in the way, And wickedness overthroweth a sin offering.
Wickedness » What is wicked
And a man who taketh the woman and her mother -- it is wickedness; with fire they burn him and them, and there is no wickedness in your midst.
Crooked is the heart above all things, And it is incurable -- who doth know it? I Jehovah do search the heart, try the reins, Even to give to each according to his way, According to the fruit of his doings.
The nakedness of a woman and her daughter thou dost not uncover; her son's daughter, and her daughter's daughter thou dost not take to uncover her nakedness; they are her relations; it is wickedness.
Wickedness » Treasures of wickedness
Are there yet in the house of the wicked Treasures of wickedness, And the abhorred scanty ephah? Do I reckon it pure with balances of wickedness? And with a bag of deceitful stones? Whose rich ones have been full of violence, And its inhabitants have spoken falsehood, And their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Wickedness » A large amount
For good is a day in Thy courts, O Teacher! I have chosen rather to be at the threshold, In the house of my God, Than to dwell in tents of wickedness.
Wickedness » The time when the wicked rise
In the exulting of the righteous the glory is abundant, And in the rising of the wicked man is apprehensive.
Wickedness » What wickedness cannot do
There is no man ruling over the spirit to restrain the spirit, and there is no authority over the day of death, and there is no discharge in battle, and wickedness delivereth not its possessors.
Wickedness » How the land becomes full of wickedness
'Thou dost not pollute thy daughter to cause her to go a-whoring, that the land go not a-whoring, and the land hath been full of wickedness.
Wickedness » Nobody being established by wickedness
A man is not established by wickedness, And the root of the righteous is not moved.
Wickedness » The plowing of the wicked
Wickedness » The lord hating wickedness
Jehovah the righteous doth try. And the wicked and the lover of violence, Hath His soul hated,
Wickedness » What lies in wickedness
Topics on Wickedness
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Isaiah 2:2-4And it hath come to pass, In the latter end of the days, Established is the mount of Jehovah's house, Above the top of the mounts, And it hath been lifted up above the heights, And flowed unto it have all the nations.
