'Wickedness' in the Bible
However, if you have warned the wicked and he does not turn from his wickedness or from his wicked way, he will die in his sin; but you have freed yourself [from responsibility].
Violence has grown into a rod of wickedness; none of them (Israel) will remain, none of their people, none of their wealth, nor anything eminent among them.
“Then it came about after all your wickedness (‘Woe, woe to you!’ says the Lord God),
Furthermore, Samaria did not commit half of your sins, but you have greatly increased your repulsive acts more than they. So you have made your [wicked] sisters [Samaria and Sodom] appear righteous and justified by [comparison to] all the disgusting things which you have done.
so that you [Judah] will bear your humiliation and disgrace, and be [thoroughly] ashamed for all [the wickedness] that you have done to console and comfort them.
before your [own] wickedness was uncovered. Now you have become an object of reproach and a byword for the daughters of Aram and of Edom and all who are around her, and for the daughters of the Philistines—those surrounding you who despise you.
The person who sins [is the one that] will die. The son will not bear the punishment for the sin of the father, nor will the father bear the punishment for the sin of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be on himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on himself.
Again, when a wicked man turns away from his wickedness which he has committed and practices justice and righteousness, he will save his life.
I will hand it over to a mighty one and a mighty one of the nations; he will most certainly deal with it. I have driven it away in accordance with its wickedness.
And you, son of man, say to the sons of your people, ‘The righteousness of the righteous man will not save him in the day of his transgression; and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he will not stagger because of it in the day that he turns from his wickedness, whereas a righteous man will not be able to live because of his [previous acts of] righteousness on the day when he commits sin.’
But when a wicked man turns back from his wickedness and practices what is just (fair) and right, he will live because of it.
Topical Concordance
Search Results by Versions
Search Results by Book
- Genesis (1)
- Leviticus (3)
- Deuteronomy (4)
- Judges (4)
- 1 Samuel (3)
- 2 Samuel (1)
- 1 Kings (1)
- 2 Kings (1)
- 1 Chronicles (2)
- Job (6)
- Psalm (15)
- Proverbs (9)
- Ecclesiastes (5)
- Isaiah (7)
- Jeremiah (24)
- Lamentations (1)
- Ezekiel (11)
- Daniel (1)
- Hosea (6)
- Joel (1)
- Amos (1)
- Jonah (1)
- Micah (1)
- Nahum (1)
- Zechariah (1)