'Wicked' in the Bible

A wise king separates out the wickedand drives the threshing wheel over them.

The lamp that guides the wicked—haughty eyes and an arrogant heart—is sin.

The violence of the wicked sweeps them awaybecause they refuse to act justly.

A wicked person desires evil;he has no consideration for his neighbor.

The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked;He brings the wicked to ruin.

The wicked are a ransom for the righteous,and the treacherous, for the upright.

The sacrifice of a wicked person is detestable—how much more sowhen he brings it with ulterior motives!

A wicked man puts on a bold face,but the upright man considers his way.

Wicked man, don’t set an ambush,at the camp of the righteous man;don’t destroy his dwelling.

Though a righteous man falls seven times,he will get up,but the wicked will stumble into ruin.

Don’t be agitated by evildoers,and don’t envy the wicked.

For the evil have no future;the lamp of the wicked will be put out.

Remove the wicked from the king’s presence,and his throne will be established in righteousness.

A righteous person who yields to the wickedis like a muddied spring or a polluted well.

The wicked flee when no one is pursuing them,but the righteous are as bold as a lion.

Those who reject the law praise the wicked,but those who keep the law battle against them.

When the righteous triumph,there is great rejoicing,but when the wicked come to power,people hide themselves.

A wicked ruler over a helpless peopleis like a roaring lion or a charging bear.

When the wicked come to power,people hide,but when they are destroyed,the righteous flourish. >

When the righteous flourish, the people rejoice,but when the wicked rule, people groan.

The righteous person knows the rights of the poor,but the wicked one does not understand these concerns.

If a ruler listens to lies,all his officials will be wicked.

When the wicked increase, rebellion increases,but the righteous will see their downfall.

An unjust man is detestable to the righteous,and one whose way is uprightis detestable to the wicked.

I said to myself, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked, since there is a time for every activity and every work.”

In my futile life I have seen everything: there is a righteous man who perishes in spite of his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in spite of his evil.

Don’t be excessively wicked, and don’t be foolish. Why should you die before your time?

In such circumstances, I saw the wicked buried. They came and went from the holy place, and they were praised in the city where they did so. This too is futile.

However, it will not go well with the wicked, and they will not lengthen their days like a shadow, for they are not reverent before God.

There is a futility that is done on the earth: there are righteous people who get what the actions of the wicked deserve, and there are wicked people who get what the actions of the righteous deserve. I say that this too is futile.

Everything is the same for everyone: there is one fate for the righteous and the wicked, for the good and the bad, for the clean and the unclean, for the one who sacrifices and the one who does not sacrifice. As it is for the good, so it is for the sinner; as for the one who takes an oath, so for the one who fears an oath.

Woe to the wicked—it will go badly for them,for what they have done will be done to them.

but He will judge the poor righteouslyand execute justice for the oppressed of the land.He will strike the landwith discipline from His mouth,and He will kill the wickedwith a command from His lips.

I will bring disaster on the world,and their own iniquity, on the wicked.I will put an end to the pride of the arrogantand humiliate the insolence of tyrants.

The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked,the scepter of the rulers.

But if the wicked man is shown favor,he does not learn righteousness.In a righteous land he acts unjustlyand does not see the majesty of the Lord.

But He also is wise and brings disaster.He does not go back on what He says;He will rise up against the house of wicked menand against the allies of evildoers.

“There is no peace for the wicked,” says the Lord.

They made His grave with the wickedand with a rich man at His death,although He had done no violenceand had not spoken deceitfully.

Let the wicked one abandon his wayand the sinful one his thoughts;let him return to the Lord,so He may have compassion on him,and to our God, for He will freely forgive.

But the wicked are like the storm-tossed sea,for it cannot be still,and its waters churn up mire and muck.

There is no peace for the wicked,”says my God.

for wicked men live among My people.They watch like fowlers lying in wait.They set a trap;they catch men.

You will be righteous, Lord,even if I bring a case against You.Yet, I wish to contend with You:Why does the way of the wicked prosper?Why do all the treacherous live at ease?

As for You, Lord, You know me; You see me.You test whether my heart is with You.Drag the wicked away like sheep to slaughterand set them apart for the day of killing.

Look, a storm from the Lord!Wrath has gone out,a whirling storm.It will whirl about the heads of the wicked.

The tumult reaches to the ends of the earthbecause the Lord brings a case against the nations.He enters into judgment with all flesh.As for the wicked, He hands them over to the sword—this is the Lord’s declaration.

Look, a storm from the Lord!Wrath has gone out,a churning storm.It will whirl about the heads of the wicked.

If I say to the wicked person, ‘You will surely die,’ but you do not warn him—you don’t speak out to warn him about his wicked way in order to save his life—that wicked person will die for his iniquity. Yet I will hold you responsible for his blood.

But if you warn a wicked person and he does not turn from his wickedness or his wicked way, he will die for his iniquity, but you will have saved your life.

I will hand these things overto foreigners as plunderand to the wicked of the earth as spoil,and they will profane them.

I will turn My face from the wickedas they profane My treasured place.Violent men will enter it and profane it.

The Lord said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who plan evil and give wicked advice in this city.

Because you have disheartened the righteous person with lies, even though I have not caused him grief, and because you have encouraged the wicked person not to turn from his evil way to save his life,

The person who sins is the one who will die. A son won’t suffer punishment for the father’s iniquity, and a father won’t suffer punishment for the son’s iniquity. The righteousness of the righteous person will be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked person will be on him.

“Now if the wicked person turns from all the sins he has committed, keeps all My statutes, and does what is just and right, he will certainly live; he will not die.

Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked?” This is the declaration of the Lord God. “Instead, don’t I take pleasure when he turns from his ways and lives?

But when a righteous person turns from his righteousness and practices iniquity, committing the same detestable acts that the wicked do, will he live? None of the righteous acts he did will be remembered. He will die because of the treachery he has engaged in and the sin he has committed.

But if a wicked person turns from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will preserve his life.

and say to it: This is what the Lord says: I am against you. I will draw My sword from its sheath and cut off both the righteous and the wicked from you.

Since I will cut off both the righteous and the wicked, My sword will therefore come out of its sheath against everyone from the south to the north.

And you, profane and wicked prince of Israel,the day has comefor your punishment.”

While they offer false visionsand lying divinations about you,the time has come to put youto the necks of the profane wicked ones;the day has comefor your punishment.

If I say to the wicked, ‘Wicked one, you will surely die,’ but you do not speak out to warn him about his way, that wicked person will die for his iniquity, yet I will hold you responsible for his blood.

But if you warn a wicked person to turn from his way and he doesn’t turn from it, he will die for his iniquity, but you will have saved your life.

Tell them: As I live”—the declaration of the Lord God—“I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked person should turn from his way and live. Repent, repent of your evil ways! Why will you die, house of Israel?

“Now, son of man, say to your people: The righteousness of the righteous person will not save him on the day of his transgression; neither will the wickedness of the wicked person cause him to stumble on the day he turns from his wickedness. The righteous person won’t be able to survive by his righteousness on the day he sins.

“So when I tell the wicked person, ‘You will surely die,’ but he repents of his sin and does what is just and right—

But if a wicked person turns from his wickedness and does what is just and right, he will live because of this.

Many will be purified, cleansed, and refined, but the wicked will act wickedly; none of the wicked will understand, but the wise will understand.

All their evil appears at Gilgal,for there I came to hate them.I will drive them from My housebecause of their evil, wicked actions.I will no longer love them;all their leaders are rebellious.

Are there still the treasures of wickednessand the accursed short measurein the house of the wicked?

Can I excuse wicked scalesor bags of deceptive weights?

One has gone out from you,who plots evil against Yahweh,and is a wicked counselor.

Look to the mountains—the feet of one bringing good newsand proclaiming peace!Celebrate your festivals, Judah;fulfill your vows.For the wicked one will never againmarch through you;he will be entirely wiped out.

This is why the law is ineffectiveand justice never emerges.For the wicked restrict the righteous;therefore, justice comes out perverted.

Your eyes are too pure to look on evil,and You cannot tolerate wrongdoing.So why do You tolerate those who are treacherous?Why are You silentwhile one who is wicked swallows upone who is more righteous than himself?

You come out to save Your people,to save Your anointed.You crush the leader of the house of the wickedand strip him from foot to neck.Selah

I will sweep away man and animal;I will sweep away the birds of the skyand the fish of the sea,and the ruins along with the wicked.I will cut off mankindfrom the face of the earth.This is the Lord’s declaration.

Though Edom says: “We have been devastated, but we will rebuild the ruins,” the Lord of Hosts says this: “They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called a wicked country and the people the Lord has cursed forever.

So you will again see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve Him.

You will trample the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day I am preparing,” says the Lord of Hosts.

“Then, after he had summoned him, his master said to him, ‘You wicked slave! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me.

But if that wicked slave says in his heart, ‘My master is delayed,’

For everyone who practices wicked things hates the light and avoids it, so that his deeds may not be exposed.

and come out—those who have done good things, to the resurrection of life, but those who have done wicked things, to the resurrection of judgment.

and that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men, for not all have faith.