'Wickedness' in the Bible
If you warn the wicked person, and he doesn't repent of his wickedness or of his wicked behavior, he'll die in his sin, but you will have saved your own life.
"How terrible! How terrible it will be for all of your wickedness!" declares the Lord GOD.
before your wickedness was revealed. Now you've become an object of derision to the inhabitants of Aram and its neighbors, including the Philistines all those around you who despise you.
You are to bear the punishment of your wickedness and detestable practices," declares the LORD,
Think about the wickedness that you practiced when you were young, when the Egyptians fondled your breasts, the breasts of your youth."
There is wickedness in your obscene conduct. Even though I've cleansed you, you uncleanness cannot be washed away. You cannot be cleansed again until my rage against you has subsided.'
You were blameless in your behavior from the day you were created until wickedness was discovered in you.
I turned it over to the leader of those nations, who dealt with it thoroughly. I have driven it away because of its wickedness.
"And now, Son of Man, say this to your people: "The righteousness of the righteous won't save them when they keep on committing crimes against me, the wickedness of the wicked won't keep them from remaining away when they're turning from their wickedness, and no righteous person will keep on living by their righteousness when they sin.'
and when the wicked turn away from their wickedness and do what is just and right, he will certainly live because of that.