'Wicked' in the Bible

But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.

And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?

That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD slew him.

And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said unto them, I have sinned this time: the LORD is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.

Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.

And if a man shall take his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it is a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people: he hath uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.

And he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be consumed in all their sins.

Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee.

Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.

When the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep thee from every wicked thing.

If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.

And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.

He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.

As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.

Then answered all the wicked men and men of Belial, of those that went with David, and said, Because they went not with us, we will not give them ought of the spoil that we have recovered, save to every man his wife and his children, that they may lead them away, and depart.

Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters: as a man falleth before wicked men, so fellest thou. And all the people wept again over him.

How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?

Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.

And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger:

Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness.

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up the house of God; and also all the dedicated things of the house of the LORD did they bestow upon Baalim.

For they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.

And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.

But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.

They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.

This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?

If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?

Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.

If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.

The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.

God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.

Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.

That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?

In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.

This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.

Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?

Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.

For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?

That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.

Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?

Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.

Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.

This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.

And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.

Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?

Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.

Is it fit to say to a king, Thou art wicked? and to princes, Ye are ungodly?

He striketh them as wicked men in the open sight of others;

My desire is that Job may be tried unto the end because of his answers for wicked men.

He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.

But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.

That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?

And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken.

Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.

Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.

God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.

Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.

The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.

The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.

The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.

The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.

Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.

Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.

For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.

The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.

Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.

The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.

From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.

Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword:

For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.

When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.

Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.

Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall compass him about.

Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.

{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD.} The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.

Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.

Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.

For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.

The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.

The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.

A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.

For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD upholdeth the righteous.

But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.

The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.

For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.

The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.

Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.