16 occurrences

'Wrong' in the Bible

Son of man, when a land, sinning against me, does wrong, and my hand is stretched out against it, and the support of its bread is broken, and I make it short of food, cutting off man and beast from it:

Verse ConceptsUnfaithfulness, To GodStretching OutGod's HandDestruction Of All CreaturesGod's Hands Stretched OutBoth Men And Animals KilledUnfaithful

My net will be stretched out over him, and he will be taken in my cords, and I will send him to Babylon, and there I will be his judge for the wrong which he has done against me.

Verse ConceptsBabylon, Israel Exiled ToNetsGod TrappingExile In ProspectGod SuingUnfaithful

And has done no wrong to any, but has given back to the debtor what is his, and has taken no one's goods by force, and has given food to him who was in need of it, and clothing to him who was without it;

Verse ConceptsCreditBenevolenceClothing The NeedyNaked In PovertyCancelling DebtsLaws About PledgesPeople Providing Food

Has done wrong to the poor and to him who is in need, and taken property by force, and has not given back to one in his debt what is his, and has given worship to images and has done disgusting things,

Verse ConceptsCreditPoor, The Wicked Response ToOppressorsDo Not StealLaws About PledgesNot Helping The Poor

Or done wrong to any, or taken anything from one in his debt, or taken goods by force, but has given food to him who was in need of it, and clothing to him who was without it;

Verse ConceptsClothing The NeedyNaked In PovertyLaws About PledgesPeople Providing Food

But when the upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, like all the disgusting things which the evil man does, will he have life? Not one of his upright acts will be kept in memory: in the wrong which he has done and in his sin death will overtake him.

Verse ConceptsRighteous, TheSanctification, Means And ResultsDoing The Right Thing

Because he had fear and was turned away from all the wrong which he had done, life will certainly be his, death will not be his fate.

Verse ConceptsTurning From EvilLife Through Repentance

For this cause, son of man, say to the children of Israel, This is what the Lord has said: In this your fathers have further put shame on my name by doing wrong against me.

Verse ConceptsCurses, HumanBlasphemyUnfaithfulacting

In you they have had no respect for father and mother; in you they have been cruel to the man from a strange land; in you they have done wrong to the child without a father and to the widow.

Verse ConceptsAliens, God's AttitudeAbuse Of Authority, Warnings AgainstOppression, God's Attitude ToOrphansParentsWidowsWicked Children, Regard To ParentsChildren, UngratefulOppressing ForeignersOppressorsNot Helping WidowsNot Honouring Parents

In you they have let the shame of their fathers be seen; in you they have done wrong to a woman at the time when she was unclean.

Verse ConceptsMenstruationNakednessNakedness UncoveredBleedingShaming PeopleSex And Uncleanness

And in you one man has done what was disgusting with his neighbour's wife; and another has made his daughter-in-law unclean; and another has done wrong to his sister, his father's daughter.

Verse ConceptsAbominationsLewdnessdaughtersOffenceSexual Sin, Nature OfSisters

The people of the land have been acting cruelly, taking men's goods by force; they have been hard on the poor and those in need, and have done wrong to the man from a strange land.

Verse ConceptsAliens, God's AttitudeExtortion, Examples OfAbuse Of Authority, Warnings AgainstOppression, Nature OfOutsidersUnkindnessOppression, Examples OfPoor, The Wicked Response ToOppressing ForeignersOppressorsNot Helping The Poor

This is what the Lord has said: Because Edom has taken his payment from the people of Judah, and has done great wrong in taking payment from them;

Verse ConceptsMan AvengingRevenge

And you, son of man, say to the children of your people, The righteousness of the upright man will not make him safe in the day when he does wrong; and the evil-doing of the evil man will not be the cause of his fall in the day when he is turned from his evil-doing; and the upright man will not have life because of his righteousness in the day when he does evil.

Verse ConceptsPeople In RighteousnessThings Which Cannot Save

And it will be clear to the nations that the children of Israel were taken away prisoners for their evil-doing; because they did wrong against me, and my face was covered from them: so I gave them up into the hands of their attackers, and they all came to their end by the sword.

Verse ConceptsGod, Revelation OfUnfaithfulness, To GodExile Of Israel To AssyriaGod HidingKnowing Facts

And they will be conscious of their shame and of all the wrong which they have done against me, when they are living in their land with no sense of danger and with no one to be a cause of fear to them;

Verse ConceptsForgetting ThingsEliminating ShameUnfaithful

Bible Theasaurus

Amiss (8 instances)
Damage (69 instances)
Grievance (9 instances)
Improper (9 instances)
Incorrect (1 instance)
Injurious (10 instances)
Molest (8 instances)
Unseasonable (1 instance)
Unsuitable (2 instances)
Untimely (6 instances)

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain