Titles and Names of the Wicked
80 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
68 sections
- Adversaries of the Lord
- Children in Whom is No Faith
- Children of Base Men
- Children of Belial
- Children of Disobedience
- Children of Fools
- Children of Hell
- Children of Iniquity
- Children of Pride
- Children of Strangers
- Children of the Devil
- Children of the Flesh
- Children of the Wicked One
- Children of This World
- Children of Transgression
- Children of Wickedness
- Children of Wrath
- Children That are Corrupters
- Children That Will not Hear the Law of the Lord
- Cursed Children
- Enemies of all Righteousness
- Enemies of God
- Enemies of the Cross of Christ
- Evil and Adulterous Generation
- Evil Doers
- Evil Generation
- Evil Men
- Fools
- Froward Generation
- Generation of Vipers
- Grievous Revolters
- Haters of God
- Impudent Children
- Inventors of Evil Things
- Lying Children
- Men of the World
- People Loaded with Iniquity
- Perverse and Crooked Generation
- Rebellious Children
- Rebellious House
- Rebellious People
- Reprobates
- Scornful, The
- Seed of Evil Doers
- Seed of Falsehood
- Seed of the Wicked
- Serpents
- Servants of Corruption
- Servants of Sin
- Sinful Generation
- Sinners
- Sons of Belial
- Sottish Children
- Strange Children
- Stubborn and Rebellious Generation
- Transgressors
- Ungodly Men
- Ungodly, The
- Unprofitable Servants
- Untoward Generation
- Vessels of Wrath
- Wicked Doers
- Wicked Generation
- Wicked of the Earth
- Wicked Ones
- Wicked Servants
- Wicked Transgressors
- Workers of Iniquity
Adversaries of the Lord
- 1 Samuel 2:10 Those who oppose the LORD will be shattered. He will thunder from heaven against them. The LORD will judge the ends of the earth and will give power to His king. He will exalt the horn of His anointed.”
Children in Whom is No Faith
- Deuteronomy 32:20 He said: “I will hide My face from them; I will see what will be their end. For they are a perverse generation— children of unfaithfulness.
Children of Base Men
- Job 30:8 A senseless and nameless brood, they were driven off the land.
Children of Belial
- Deuteronomy 13:13 that wicked men have arisen from among you and have led the people of their city astray, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods” (which you have not known),
- 2 Chronicles 13:7 Then worthless and wicked men gathered around him to resist Rehoboam son of Solomon when he was young, inexperienced, and unable to resist them.
Children of Disobedience
- Ephesians 2:2 in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience.
- Colossians 3:6 Because of these, the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.
Children of Fools
- Job 30:8 A senseless and nameless brood, they were driven off the land.
Children of Hell
- Matthew 23:15 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You traverse land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.
Children of Iniquity
- Hosea 10:9 Since the days of Gibeah you have sinned, O Israel, and there you have remained. Did not the battle in Gibeah overtake the sons of iniquity?
Children of Pride
- Job 41:34 He looks down on all the haughty; he is king over all the proud.”
Children of Strangers
- Isaiah 2:6 For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled with influences from the east; they are soothsayers like the Philistines; they strike hands with the children of foreigners.
Children of the Devil
- Acts 13:10 and said, “O child of the devil and enemy of all righteousness, you are full of all kinds of deceit and trickery! Will you never stop perverting the straight ways of the Lord?
- 1 John 3:10 By this the children of God are distinguished from the children of the devil: Anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is anyone who does not love his brother.
Children of the Flesh
- Romans 9:8 So it is not the children of the flesh who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as offspring.
Children of the Wicked One
- Matthew 13:38 The field is the world, and the good seed represents the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one,
Children of This World
- Luke 16:8 The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the sons of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the sons of light.
Children of Transgression
- Isaiah 57:4 Whom are you mocking? At whom do you sneer and stick out your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, offspring of deceit,
Children of Wickedness
- 2 Samuel 7:10 And I will provide a place for My people Israel and will plant them so that they may dwell in a place of their own and be disturbed no more. No longer will the sons of wickedness oppress them as they did at the beginning
Children of Wrath
- Ephesians 2:3 All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.
Children That are Corrupters
- Isaiah 1:4 Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who act corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.
Children That Will not Hear the Law of the Lord
- Isaiah 30:9 These are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to obey the LORD’s instruction.
Cursed Children
- 2 Peter 2:14 Their eyes are full of adultery; their desire for sin is never satisfied; they seduce the unstable. They are accursed children with hearts trained in greed.
Enemies of all Righteousness
- Acts 13:10 and said, “O child of the devil and enemy of all righteousness, you are full of all kinds of deceit and trickery! Will you never stop perverting the straight ways of the Lord?
Enemies of God
- Psalm 37:20 But the wicked and enemies of the LORD will perish like the glory of the fields. They will vanish; like smoke they will fade away.
- James 4:4 You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.
Enemies of the Cross of Christ
- Philippians 3:18 For as I have often told you before, and now say again even with tears: Many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.
Evil and Adulterous Generation
- Matthew 12:39 Jesus replied, “A wicked and adulterous generation demands a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.
Evil Doers
- Psalm 37:1 Do not fret over those who do evil; do not envy those who do wrong.
- 1 Peter 2:14 or to governors as those sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to praise those who do right.
Evil Generation
- Deuteronomy 1:35 “Not one of the men of this evil generation shall see the good land I swore to give your fathers,
Evil Men
- Proverbs 4:14 Do not set foot on the path of the wicked or walk in the way of evildoers.
- 2 Timothy 3:13 while evil men and imposters go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
Fools
- Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
- Romans 1:22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools,
Froward Generation
- Deuteronomy 32:20 He said: “I will hide My face from them; I will see what will be their end. For they are a perverse generation— children of unfaithfulness.
Generation of Vipers
- Matthew 3:7 But when John saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his place of baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
- Matthew 12:34 You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.
Grievous Revolters
- Jeremiah 6:28 All are hardened rebels, walking around as slanderers. They are bronze and iron; all of them are corrupt.
Haters of God
- Psalm 81:15 Those who hate the LORD would feign obedience, and their doom would last forever.
- Romans 1:30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents.
Impudent Children
- Ezekiel 2:4 They are obstinate and stubborn children. I am sending you to them, and you are to say to them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says.’
Inventors of Evil Things
- Romans 1:30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents.
Lying Children
- Isaiah 30:9 These are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to obey the LORD’s instruction.
Men of the World
- Psalm 17:14 from such men, O LORD, by Your hand— from men of the world whose portion is in this life. May You fill the bellies of Your treasured ones and satisfy their sons, so they leave their abundance to their children.
People Loaded with Iniquity
- Isaiah 1:4 Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who act corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.
Perverse and Crooked Generation
- Deuteronomy 32:5 His people have acted corruptly toward Him; the blemish on them is not that of His children, but of a perverse and crooked generation.
- Matthew 17:17 “O unbelieving and perverse generation!” Jesus replied. “How long must I remain with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring the boy here to Me.”
- Philippians 2:15 so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world
Rebellious Children
- Isaiah 30:1 “Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the LORD, “to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine, who form an alliance, but against My will, heaping up sin upon sin.
Rebellious House
- Ezekiel 2:5 And whether they listen or refuse to listen— for they are a rebellious house— they will know that a prophet has been among them.
- Ezekiel 2:8 And you, son of man, listen to what I tell you. Do not be rebellious like that rebellious house. Open your mouth and eat what I give you.”
- Ezekiel 12:2 “Son of man, you are living in a rebellious house. They have eyes to see but do not see, and ears to hear but do not hear, for they are a rebellious house.
Rebellious People
- Isaiah 30:9 These are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to obey the LORD’s instruction.
- Isaiah 65:2 All day long I have held out My hands to an obstinate people who walk in the wrong path, who follow their own imaginations,
Reprobates
- 2 Corinthians 13:5–7 Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you — unless you fail the test? …
Scornful, The
- Psalm 1:1 Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or set foot on the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of mockers.
Seed of Evil Doers
- Isaiah 1:4 Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who act corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.
- Isaiah 14:20 You will not join them in burial, since you have destroyed your land and slaughtered your own people. The offspring of the wicked will never again be mentioned.
Seed of Falsehood
- Isaiah 57:4 Whom are you mocking? At whom do you sneer and stick out your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, offspring of deceit,
Seed of the Wicked
- Psalm 37:28 For the LORD loves justice and will not forsake His saints. They are preserved forever, but the offspring of the wicked will be cut off.
Serpents
- Matthew 23:33 You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell?
Servants of Corruption
- 2 Peter 2:19 They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves to depravity. For a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him.
Servants of Sin
- John 8:34 Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.
- Romans 6:20 For when you were slaves to sin, you were free of obligation to righteousness.
Sinful Generation
- Mark 8:28 They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets.”
Sinners
- Psalm 26:9 Do not take my soul away with sinners, or my life with men of bloodshed,
- Proverbs 1:10 My son, if sinners entice you, do not yield to them.
Sons of Belial
- 1 Samuel 2:12 Now the sons of Eli were wicked men; they had no regard for the LORD
- 1 Kings 21:10 But seat two scoundrels opposite him and have them testify, ‘You have cursed both God and the king!’ Then take him out and stone him to death.”
Sottish Children
- Jeremiah 4:22 “For My people are fools; they have not known Me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they know not how to do good.”
Strange Children
- Psalm 144:7 Reach down from on high; set me free and rescue me from the deep waters, from the grasp of foreigners,
Stubborn and Rebellious Generation
- Psalm 78:8 Then they will not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose heart was not loyal, whose spirit was not faithful to God.
Transgressors
- Psalm 37:38 But the transgressors will all be destroyed; the future of the wicked will be cut off.
- Psalm 51:13 Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, and sinners will return to You.
Ungodly Men
- Jude 4 For certain men have crept in among you unnoticed — ungodly ones who were designated long ago for condemnation. They turn the grace of our God into a license for immorality, and they deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
Ungodly, The
- Psalm 1:1 Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or set foot on the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of mockers.
Unprofitable Servants
- Matthew 25:30 And throw that worthless servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
Untoward Generation
- Acts 2:40 With many other words he testified, and he urged them, “Be saved from this corrupt generation.”
Vessels of Wrath
- Romans 9:22 What if God, intending to show His wrath and make His power known, bore with great patience the vessels of His wrath, prepared for destruction?
Wicked Doers
- Psalm 101:8 Every morning I will remove all the wicked of the land, that I may cut off every evildoer from the city of the LORD.
- Proverbs 17:4 A wicked man listens to evil lips; a liar gives ear to a destructive tongue.
Wicked Generation
- Matthew 12:45 Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and dwell there. And the final plight of that man is worse than the first. So will it be with this wicked generation.”
- Matthew 16:4 A wicked and adulterous generation demands a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of Jonah.” Then He left them and went away.
Wicked of the Earth
- Psalm 75:8 For a cup is in the hand of the LORD, full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours from His cup, and all the wicked of the earth drink it down to the dregs.
Wicked Ones
- Jeremiah 2:33 How skillfully you pursue love! Even the most immoral of women could learn from your ways.
Wicked Servants
- Matthew 25:26 ‘You wicked, lazy servant!’ replied his master. ‘You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed.
Wicked Transgressors
- Psalm 59:5 O LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, rouse Yourself to punish all the nations; show no mercy to the wicked traitors. Selah
Workers of Iniquity
- Psalm 28:3 Do not drag me away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors while malice is in their hearts.
- Psalm 36:12 There the evildoers lie fallen, thrown down and unable to rise.
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.