'Wickedness' in the Bible

"And then I will tell them plainly, "'I never knew you: begone from me, you doers of wickedness.'

But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites?

Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:

and who swallow up the property of widows and then mask their wickedness by making long prayers: these men will receive far heavier punishment."

And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.

who swallow up the property of widows and mask their wickedness by making long prayers. They will be punished far more severely than others."

Everyone who practices wickedness hates the light and does not come to the light, so that his actions may not be exposed.

(Now this man acquired a field with the price of his wickedness, and falling headlong, he burst open in the middle and all his intestines gushed out.

To you first God, having raised up his servant, has sent him, blessing you in turning each one of you from your wickedness.

Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.

For I see that you're being poisoned by bitterness and you're a prisoner of wickedness!"

“In humiliation His judgment was taken away [justice was denied Him].Who will describe His generation?For His life is taken from the earth.”

and said, “You [Elymas] who are full of every [kind of] deceit, and every [kind of] fraud, you son of the devil, enemy of everything that is right and good, will you never stop perverting the straight paths of the Lord?

Let them therefore, said he, which among you are able, go down with me, and accuse this man, if there be any wickedness in him.

For God's wrath is being revealed from heaven against all the ungodliness and wickedness of those who in their wickedness suppress the truth.

Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

but wrath and fury for those who in their selfish pride refuse to believe the truth and practice wickedness instead.

Do not go on offering members of your body to sin as instruments of wickedness. But offer yourselves to God [in a decisive act] as those alive [raised] from the dead [to a new life], and your members [all of your abilities—sanctified, set apart] as instruments of righteousness [yielded] to God.

I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.

Love is to be sincere and active [the real thing—without guile and hypocrisy]. Hate what is evil [detest all ungodliness, do not tolerate wickedness]; hold on tightly to what is good.

Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Brothers, do not become children in [your] understanding, but with respect to wickedness be as a child, and in [your] understanding be mature.

All bitterness, anger and wrath, shouting and slander must be removed from you, along with all malice.

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

But now you also lay aside all [these] things: anger, rage, wickedness, slander, abusive language from your mouth.

hold aloof from every form of wickedness.

and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved.

in order that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but took pleasure in wickedness.

Nevertheless, the firm foundation of God stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are His,” and, “Everyone who names the name of the Lord is to abstain from wickedness.”

For we also were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, enslaved to various desires and pleasures, spending our lives in wickedness and envy, despicable, hating one another.

You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness. That is why God, your God, anointed you rather than your companions with the oil of gladness."

Therefore, rid yourselves of everything impure and every expression of wickedness, and with a gentle spirit welcome the word planted in you that can save your souls.

And the tongue is [in a sense] a fire, the very world of injustice and unrighteousness; the tongue is set among our members as that which contaminates the entire body, and sets on fire the course of our life [the cycle of man’s existence], and is itself set on fire by hell (Gehenna).

So rid yourselves of all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all slander.

as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

“He must turn away from wickedness and do what is right.He must search for peace [with God, with self, with others] and pursue it eagerly [actively—not merely desiring it].

So they are astonished when you do not rush with them into the same flood of wickedness, and they vilify you.

Abandoning the straight road [that is, the right way to live], they have gone astray; they have followed the way of [the false teacher] Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the reward of wickedness;

but had reproof of his own wickedness the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the folly of the prophet.

And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.

for her sins (crimes, transgressions) have piled up as high as heaven, and God has remembered her wickedness and crimes [for judgment].