Wicked (People)
409 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
75 sections
- Compared With: A Wild Donkey's Colts
- Compared With: Abominable Branches
- Compared With: Animals
- Compared With: Ashes Under the Feet
- Compared With: Bad Figs
- Compared With: Bad Fish
- Compared With: Blind People
- Compared With: Briers Add Thorns
- Compared With: Bronze and Iron
- Compared With: Carcasses Trodden Underfoot
- Compared With: Chaff
- Compared With: Clouds Without Water
- Compared With: Corn (Grain) Blasted
- Compared With: Corrupt Trees
- Compared With: Deaf Adders
- Compared With: Disturbed Sea
- Compared With: Dogs
- Compared With: Dross
- Compared With: Early Dew That Passes Away
- Compared With: Fading Oaks
- Compared With: Fiery Oven
- Compared With: Fire of Thorns
- Compared With: Fools Building Upon Sand
- Compared With: Garden Without Water
- Compared With: Goats
- Compared With: Grass
- Compared With: Grass on the Housetop
- Compared With: Green Bay Tree
- Compared With: Green Herbs
- Compared With: Heath in the Desert
- Compared With: Horses Rushing Into the Battle
- Compared With: Lions Greedy of Prey
- Compared With: Melting Wax
- Compared With: Morning Clouds
- Compared With: Moth-Eaten Garments
- Compared With: Passing Whirlwinds
- Compared With: Potsherds
- Compared With: Raging Waves of the Sea
- Compared With: Reprobate Silver
- Compared With: Scorpions
- Compared With: Serpents
- Compared With: Smoke
- Compared With: Stony Ground
- Compared With: Stubble
- Compared With: Swine (Pig)
- Compared With: Tares
- Compared With: The Bulls of Bashan
- Compared With: The Fuel of Fire
- Compared With: Visions of the Night
- Compared With: Wandering Stars
- Compared With: Wayward Children
- Compared With: Wells Without Water
- Compared With: Wheels
- Compared With: Whited Gravesites
- Contrasted with Righteous People
- Death of
- Described
- Dreading God
- Eliphaz's Exhortation To
- False Hope of
- God is Angry With
- God's Mercy To
- Gospel Invitation To, Illustrated by the Parables of The Householder
- Gospel Invitation To, Illustrated by the Parables of The Marriage Supper
- Hate Reproof
- Hate the Righteous
- Love For
- Prayer of
- Prosperity of
- Punishment of
- Spirit of God Withdrawn From
- Temporal Punishment of
- Terrors of, at the Judgment
- Warned
- Worship of, offensive to God
Compared With: A Wild Donkey's Colts
- Job 11:12 But a witless man can no more become wise than the colt of a wild donkey can be born a man!
Compared With: Abominable Branches
- Isaiah 14:19 But you are cast out of your grave like a rejected branch, covered by those slain with the sword, and dumped into a rocky pit …
Compared With: Animals
- Psalm 49:12 But a man, despite his wealth, cannot endure; he is like the beasts that perish.
- 2 Peter 2:12 These men are like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be captured and destroyed. They blaspheme in matters they …
Compared With: Ashes Under the Feet
- Malachi 4:3 Then you will trample the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day I am preparing,” says the LORD of Hosts.
Compared With: Bad Figs
- Jeremiah 24:8 But like the bad figs, so bad they cannot be eaten,’ says the LORD, ‘so will I deal with Zedekiah king of Judah, his officials, …
Compared With: Bad Fish
- Matthew 13:48 When it was full, the men pulled it ashore. Then they sat down and sorted the good fish into containers, but threw the bad away.
Compared With: Blind People
- Zephaniah 1:17 I will bring such distress on mankind that they will walk like the blind, because they have sinned against the LORD. Their blood …
- Matthew 15:14 Disregard them! They are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”
Compared With: Briers Add Thorns
- Isaiah 55:13 Instead of the thornbush, the cypress will grow, and instead of the brier, the myrtle will spring up; this will make a name for …
- Ezekiel 2:6 But you, son of man, do not be afraid of them or their words. Do not be afraid, though briers and thorns surround you, and you …
Compared With: Bronze and Iron
- Jeremiah 6:28 All are hardened rebels, walking around as slanderers. They are bronze and iron; all of them are corrupt.
- Ezekiel 22:18 “Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me. All of them are copper, tin, iron, and lead inside the furnace; they are …
Compared With: Carcasses Trodden Underfoot
- Isaiah 14:19 But you are cast out of your grave like a rejected branch, covered by those slain with the sword, and dumped into a rocky pit …
Compared With: Chaff
- Job 21:18 Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
- Psalm 1:4 Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.
- Matthew 3:12 His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the …
Compared With: Clouds Without Water
- Jude 12 These men are hidden reefs in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are clouds …
Compared With: Corn (Grain) Blasted
- 2 Kings 19:26 Therefore their inhabitants, devoid of power, are dismayed and ashamed. They are like plants in the field, tender green shoots, …
Compared With: Corrupt Trees
- Luke 6:43 No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit.
Compared With: Deaf Adders
- Psalm 58:4 Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like a cobra that shuts its ears,
Compared With: Disturbed Sea
- Isaiah 57:20 But the wicked are like the storm-tossed sea, for it cannot be still, and its waves churn up mire and muck.
Compared With: Dogs
- Proverbs 26:11 As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.
- Matthew 7:6 Do not give dogs what is holy; do not throw your pearls before swine. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and then …
- 2 Peter 2:22 Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud.”
Compared With: Dross
- Psalm 119:119 All the wicked on earth You discard like dross; therefore I love Your testimonies.
- Ezekiel 22:18–19 “Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me. All of them are copper, tin, iron, and lead inside the furnace; they are …
Compared With: Early Dew That Passes Away
- Hosea 13:3 Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, like …
Compared With: Fading Oaks
- Isaiah 1:30 For you will become like an oak whose leaves are withered, like a garden without water.
Compared With: Fiery Oven
- Psalm 21:9 You will place them in a fiery furnace at the time of Your appearing. In His wrath the LORD will engulf them, and the fire will …
- Hosea 7:4 They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker who needs not stoke the fire from the kneading to the rising of the dough.
Compared With: Fire of Thorns
- Psalm 118:12 They swarmed around me like bees, but they were extinguished like burning thorns; in the name of the LORD I cut them off.
Compared With: Fools Building Upon Sand
- Matthew 7:26 But everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.
Compared With: Garden Without Water
- Isaiah 1:30 For you will become like an oak whose leaves are withered, like a garden without water.
Compared With: Goats
- Matthew 25:32 All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate the people one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep …
Compared With: Grass
- Psalm 37:2 For they wither quickly like grass and wilt like tender plants.
- Psalm 92:7 that though the wicked sprout like grass, and all evildoers flourish, they will be forever destroyed.
Compared With: Grass on the Housetop
- 2 Kings 19:26 Therefore their inhabitants, devoid of power, are dismayed and ashamed. They are like plants in the field, tender green shoots, …
Compared With: Green Bay Tree
- Psalm 37:35 I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a well-rooted native tree,
Compared With: Green Herbs
- Psalm 37:2 For they wither quickly like grass and wilt like tender plants.
Compared With: Heath in the Desert
- Jeremiah 17:6 He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, …
Compared With: Horses Rushing Into the Battle
- Jeremiah 8:6 I have listened and heard; they do not speak what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, asking, ‘What have I done?’ …
Compared With: Lions Greedy of Prey
- Psalm 17:12 like a lion greedy for prey, like a young lion lurking in ambush.
Compared With: Melting Wax
- Psalm 68:2 As smoke is blown away, You will drive them out; as wax melts before the fire, the wicked will perish in the presence of God.
Compared With: Morning Clouds
- Hosea 13:3 Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, like …
Compared With: Moth-Eaten Garments
- Isaiah 50:9 Surely the Lord GOD helps Me. Who is there to condemn Me? See, they will all wear out like a garment; the moths will devour them.
- Isaiah 51:8 For the moth will devour them like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool. But My righteousness will last forever, My …
Compared With: Passing Whirlwinds
- Proverbs 10:25 When the whirlwind passes, the wicked are no more, but the righteous are secure forever.
Compared With: Potsherds
- Proverbs 26:23 Like glaze covering an earthen vessel are burning lips and a wicked heart.
Compared With: Raging Waves of the Sea
- Jude 13 They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.
Compared With: Reprobate Silver
- Jeremiah 6:30 They are called rejected silver, because the LORD has rejected them.”
Compared With: Scorpions
- Ezekiel 2:6 But you, son of man, do not be afraid of them or their words. Do not be afraid, though briers and thorns surround you, and you …
Compared With: Serpents
- Psalm 58:4 Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like a cobra that shuts its ears,
- Matthew 23:33 You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell?
Compared With: Smoke
- Hosea 13:3 Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, like …
Compared With: Stony Ground
- Matthew 13:5 Some fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly because the soil was shallow.
Compared With: Stubble
- Job 21:18 Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
- Malachi 4:1 “For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is …
Compared With: Swine (Pig)
- Matthew 7:6 Do not give dogs what is holy; do not throw your pearls before swine. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and then …
- 2 Peter 2:22 Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud.”
Compared With: Tares
- 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,
Compared With: The Bulls of Bashan
- Psalm 22:12 Many bulls surround me; strong bulls of Bashan encircle me.
Compared With: The Fuel of Fire
- Isaiah 9:19 By the wrath of the LORD of Hosts the land is scorched, and the people are fuel for the fire. No man even spares his brother.
Compared With: Visions of the Night
- Job 20:8 He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.
Compared With: Wandering Stars
- Jude 13 They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.
Compared With: Wayward Children
- Matthew 11:16 To what can I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling out to others:
Compared With: Wells Without Water
- 2 Peter 2:17 These men are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them.
Compared With: Wheels
- Psalm 83:13 Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind.
Compared With: Whited Gravesites
- Matthew 23:27 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the …
Contrasted with Righteous People
- Psalm 1:1–6 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. …
- Psalm 11:5 The LORD tests the righteous and the wicked; His soul hates the lover of violence.
- Psalm 17:14–15 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 …
- Psalm 32:10 Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but loving devotion surrounds him who trusts in the LORD.
- Psalm 37:17–22 For the arms of the wicked will be broken, but the LORD upholds the righteous. …
- Psalm 37:37–38 Consider the blameless and observe the upright, for posterity awaits the man of peace. …
- Psalm 68:6 God settles the lonely in families; He leads the prisoners out to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.
- Psalm 73:1–28 Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart. …
- Psalm 75:10 “All the horns of the wicked I will cut off, but the horns of the righteous will be exalted.”
- Psalm 91:7–8 Though a thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand, no harm will come near you. …
- Psalm 107:33–38 He turns rivers into deserts, springs of water into thirsty ground, …
- Psalm 125:5 But those who turn to crooked ways the LORD will banish with the evildoers. Peace be upon Israel.
- Proverbs 10:6 Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.
- Proverbs 10:9 He who walks in integrity walks securely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out.
- Proverbs 10:21 The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of judgment.
- Proverbs 10:23–25 The fool delights in shameful conduct, but a man of understanding has wisdom. …
- Proverbs 10:28–30 The hope of the righteous is joy, but the expectations of the wicked will perish. …
- Proverbs 10:32 The lips of the righteous know what is fitting, but the mouth of the wicked is perverse.
- Proverbs 11:3 The integrity of the upright guides them, but the perversity of the faithless destroys them.
- Proverbs 11:5–6 The righteousness of the blameless directs their path, but the wicked fall by their own wickedness. …
- Proverbs 11:8 The righteous man is delivered from trouble; in his place the wicked man goes in.
- Proverbs 11:10–11 When the righteous thrive, the city rejoices, and when the wicked perish, there are shouts of joy. …
- Proverbs 11:18–21 The wicked man earns an empty wage, but he who sows righteousness reaps a true reward. …
- Proverbs 11:23 The desire of the righteous leads only to good, but the hope of the wicked brings wrath.
- Proverbs 11:31 If the righteous receive their due on earth, how much more the ungodly and the sinner!
- Proverbs 12:3 A man cannot be established through wickedness, but the righteous cannot be uprooted.
- Proverbs 12:5–7 The plans of the righteous are just, but the counsel of the wicked leads to deceit. …
- Proverbs 12:13 An evil man is trapped by his rebellious speech, but a righteous man escapes from trouble.
- Proverbs 12:21 No harm befalls the righteous, but the wicked are filled with trouble.
- Proverbs 12:26 A righteous man is cautious in friendship, but the ways of the wicked lead them astray.
- Proverbs 13:6 Righteousness guards the man of integrity, but wickedness undermines the sinner.
- Proverbs 13:13 He who despises instruction will pay the penalty, but the one who respects a command will be rewarded.
- Proverbs 13:17 A wicked messenger falls into trouble, but a faithful envoy brings healing.
- Proverbs 13:21 Disaster pursues sinners, but prosperity is the reward of the righteous.
- Proverbs 14:19 The evil bow before the good, and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.
- Proverbs 14:22 Do not those who contrive evil go astray? But those who plan goodness find loving devotion and faithfulness.
- Proverbs 14:32 The wicked man is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous man has a refuge even in death.
- Proverbs 15:6 The house of the righteous has great treasure, but the income of the wicked is trouble.
- Proverbs 21:18 The wicked become a ransom for the righteous, and the faithless for the upright.
- Proverbs 21:26 All day long he covets more, but the righteous give without restraint.
- Proverbs 22:5 Thorns and snares lie on the path of the perverse; he who guards his soul stays far from them.
- Proverbs 28:1 The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are as bold as a lion.
- Proverbs 28:4–5 Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law resist them. …
- Proverbs 28:13–14 He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy. …
- Proverbs 28:18 He who walks with integrity will be kept safe, but whoever is perverse in his ways will suddenly fall.
- Isaiah 32:1–8 Behold, a king will reign in righteousness, and princes will rule with justice. …
- Isaiah 65:13–14 Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: “My servants will eat, but you will go hungry; My servants will drink, but you will go …
- Malachi 3:18 So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.”
- Romans 2:7–9 To those who by perseverance in doing good seek glory, honor, and immortality, He will give eternal life. …
- Ephesians 2:12–14 remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the …
- 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 …
- 1 Thessalonians 5:5–8 For you are all sons of the light and sons of the day; we do not belong to the night or to the darkness. …
- Titus 1:15 To the pure, all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Indeed, both their minds and their …
- 1 John 1:6–7 If we say we have fellowship with Him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. …
- 1 John 3:3–17 And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as Christ is pure. …
Death of
- Psalm 49:14 Like sheep they are destined for Sheol. Death will be their shepherd. The upright will rule them in the morning, and their form …
- Psalm 73:4 They have no struggle in their death; their bodies are well-fed.
Described
- Genesis 13:13 But the men of Sodom were wicked, sinning greatly against the LORD.
- Genesis 18:20 Then the LORD said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great. Because their sin is so grievous,
- Leviticus 18:25 Even the land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants.
- Deuteronomy 9:13 The LORD also said to me, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.
- Deuteronomy 9:24 You have been rebelling against the LORD since the day I came to know you.
- Deuteronomy 32:10 He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as the apple …
- Deuteronomy 32:32–33 But their vine is from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poisonous; their clusters are bitter. …
- 1 Samuel 24:13 As the old proverb says, ‘Wickedness proceeds from the wicked.’ But my hand will never be against you.
- 1 Kings 21:20 When Elijah arrived, Ahab said to him, “So you have found me out, my enemy.” He replied, “I have found you out because you have …
- 2 Chronicles 28:10 And now you intend to reduce to slavery the men and women of Judah and Jerusalem. But are you not also guilty before the LORD your God?
- 2 Chronicles 28:22 In the time of his distress, King Ahaz became even more unfaithful to the LORD.
- Ezra 9:11 that You gave through Your servants the prophets, saying: ‘The land that you are entering to possess is a land polluted by the …
- Job 14:4 Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!
- Job 15:16 how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?
- Job 15:20–35 A wicked man writhes in pain all his days; only a few years are reserved for the ruthless. …
- Job 20:12–13 Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he conceals it under his tongue, …
- Job 22:5 Is not your wickedness great? Are not your iniquities endless?
- Job 24:2–24 Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks. …
- Psalm 5:9 For not a word they speak can be trusted; destruction lies within them. Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.
- Psalm 7:14–16 Behold, the wicked man travails with evil; he conceives trouble and births falsehood. …
- Psalm 10:4–11 In his pride the wicked man does not seek Him; in all his schemes there is no God. …
- Psalm 36:1–4 An oracle is in my heart regarding the transgression of the wicked man: There is no fear of God before his eyes. …
- Psalm 37:12 The wicked scheme against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them,
- Psalm 49:20 A man who has riches without understanding is like the beasts that perish.
- Psalm 50:17–20 For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you. …
- Psalm 52:1–4 Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The loving devotion of God endures all day long. …
- Psalm 53:1–5 The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their ways are vile. There is no one who does good. …
- Psalm 58:3–5 The wicked are estranged from the womb; the liars go astray from birth. …
- Psalm 59:6–7 They return in the evening, snarling like dogs and prowling around the city. …
- Psalm 64:3–6 who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows, …
- Psalm 73:4–12 They have no struggle in their death; their bodies are well-fed. …
- Psalm 94:3–8 How long will the wicked, O LORD, how long will the wicked exult? …
- Psalm 119:155 Salvation is far from the wicked because they do not seek Your statutes.
- Proverbs 1:29–30 For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD. …
- Proverbs 2:12–19 to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perversity, …
- Proverbs 4:16 For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.
- Proverbs 6:12–15 A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth, …
- Proverbs 10:23 The fool delights in shameful conduct, but a man of understanding has wisdom.
- Proverbs 13:19 Desire fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but turning from evil is detestable to fools.
- Proverbs 14:9 Fools mock the making of amends, but goodwill is found among the upright.
- Proverbs 15:9–10 The LORD detests the way of the wicked, but He loves those who pursue righteousness. …
- Proverbs 27:22 Though you grind a fool like grain with mortar and a pestle, yet his folly will not depart from him.
- Proverbs 28:4 Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law resist them.
- Ecclesiastes 3:18 I said to myself, “As for the sons of men, God tests them so that they may see for themselves that they are but beasts.”
- Ecclesiastes 8:11 When the sentence for a crime is not speedily executed, the hearts of men become fully set on doing evil.
- Isaiah 1:4–6 Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who act corruptly! They have forsaken the …
- Isaiah 3:9 The expression on their faces testifies against them, and like Sodom they flaunt their sin; they do not conceal it. Woe to them, …
- Isaiah 5:11–12 Woe to those who rise early in the morning in pursuit of strong drink, who linger into the evening, to be inflamed by wine. …
- Isaiah 5:18–25 Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of deceit and pull sin along with cart ropes, …
- Isaiah 26:10–11 Though grace is shown to the wicked man, he does not learn righteousness. In the land of righteousness he acts unjustly and fails …
- 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 …
- Isaiah 32:6–7 For a fool speaks foolishness; his mind plots iniquity. He practices ungodliness and speaks falsely about the LORD; he leaves the …
- Isaiah 57:20–21 But the wicked are like the storm-tossed sea, for it cannot be still, and its waves churn up mire and muck. …
- Isaiah 59:2–8 But your iniquities have built barriers between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He does not hear. …
- Isaiah 63:19 We have become like those You never ruled, like those not called by Your name.
- Jeremiah 2:22–25 Although you wash with lye and use an abundance of soap, the stain of your guilt is still before Me,” declares the Lord GOD. …
- Jeremiah 3:5 Will He be angry forever? Will He be indignant to the end?’ This you have spoken, but you keep doing all the evil you can.”
- Jeremiah 4:22 “For My people are fools; they have not known Me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing …
- Jeremiah 5:4–5 Then I said, “They are only the poor; they have played the fool, for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God. …
- Jeremiah 5:26–28 For among My people are wicked men; they watch like fowlers lying in wait; they set a trap to catch men. …
- Jeremiah 6:7 As a well gushes its water, so she pours out her evil. Violence and destruction resound in her; sickness and wounds are ever before Me.
- Jeremiah 6:15 Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So …
- Jeremiah 8:6 I have listened and heard; they do not speak what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, asking, ‘What have I done?’ …
- Jeremiah 8:12 Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So …
- Jeremiah 9:3–6 “They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take …
- Jeremiah 11:8 Yet they would not obey or incline their ears, but each one followed the stubbornness of his evil heart. So I brought on them all …
- Jeremiah 11:15 What right has My beloved in My house, having carried out so many evil schemes? Can consecrated meat avert your doom? When you …
- Jeremiah 13:10 These evil people, who refuse to listen to My words, who follow the stubbornness of their own hearts, and who go after other gods …
- Jeremiah 14:10 This is what the LORD says about this people: “Truly they love to wander; they have not restrained their feet. So the LORD does …
- Jeremiah 17:1 “The sin of Judah is written with an iron stylus, engraved with a diamond point on the tablets of their hearts and on the horns …
- Jeremiah 30:12–15 For this is what the LORD says: “Your injury is incurable; your wound is grievous. …
- Ezekiel 3:7 But the house of Israel will be unwilling to listen to you, since they are unwilling to listen to Me. For the whole house of …
- Ezekiel 11:12 Then you will know that I am the LORD. For you have neither followed My statutes nor practiced My ordinances, but you have …
- Ezekiel 16:47 And you not only walked in their ways and practiced their abominations, but soon you were more depraved than they were.
- Ezekiel 20:16 because they kept rejecting My ordinances, refusing to walk in My statutes, and profaning My Sabbaths; for their hearts …
- Hosea 4:8 They feed on the sins of My people and set their hearts on iniquity.
- Hosea 7:3 They delight the king with their evil, and the princes with their lies.
- Hosea 7:9 Foreigners consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair is streaked with gray, but he does not know.
- Hosea 9:10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the firstfruits of the fig tree in its first season. But they …
- Hosea 13:12 The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is stored up.
- Amos 5:10 There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise him who speaks with integrity.
- Micah 3:1–2 Then I said: “Hear now, O leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the house of Israel. Should you not know justice? …
- Micah 7:2–4 The godly man has perished from the earth; there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; they hunt one …
- Zephaniah 3:5 The LORD within her is righteous; He does no wrong. He applies His justice morning by morning; He does not fail at dawn, yet the …
- Zephaniah 3:7 I said, ‘Surely you will fear Me and accept correction.’ Then her dwelling place would not be cut off despite all for which I …
- Haggai 2:14 Then Haggai replied, “So it is with this people and this nation before Me, declares the LORD, and so it is with every work of …
- Matthew 4:16 the people living in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned.”
- Matthew 6:23 But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
- Matthew 18:11
- Mark 4:11 He replied, “The mystery of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to those on the outside everything is expressed in parables,
- Luke 1:79 to shine on those who live in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the path of peace.”
- Luke 19:10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
- John 3:18–20 Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in …
- John 5:42 but I know you, that you do not have the love of God within you.
- John 8:34 Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.
- John 8:44 You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to …
- Acts 8:21 You have no part or share in our ministry, because your heart is not right before God.
- Acts 8:23 For I see that you are poisoned by bitterness and captive to iniquity.”
- 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 …
- Romans 1:20–32 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being …
- Romans 2:8 But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow wickedness, there will be wrath and anger.
- Romans 3:10–18 As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one. …
- Romans 8:5 Those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh; but those who live according to the Spirit set …
- Romans 8:7–8 because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. …
- 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.
- Ephesians 2:1–3 And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, …
- Ephesians 2:12 remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the …
- Ephesians 4:17–19 So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. …
- Ephesians 5:11–12 Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. …
- 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 …
- Colossians 1:21 Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds, engaging in evil deeds.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:7 For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.
- 2 Thessalonians 1:8 in blazing fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
- 1 Timothy 1:9–10 We realize that law is not enacted for the righteous, but for the lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinful, for the …
- 2 Timothy 3:2–13 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, …
- Titus 1:15–16 To the pure, all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Indeed, both their minds and their …
- Titus 3:3 For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures — living in malice …
- 2 Peter 2:10 Such punishment is specially reserved for those who indulge the corrupt desires of the flesh and despise authority. Bold and …
- 1 John 3:8 The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the very start. This is why the Son of God was …
- 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 …
- 1 John 3:14–15 We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. The one who does not love remains in death. …
- Jude 12–13 These men are hidden reefs in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are clouds …
- Revelation 3:17–18 You say, ‘I am rich; I have grown wealthy and need nothing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked. …
Dreading God
- Job 18:11 Terrors frighten him on every side and harass his every step.
Eliphaz's Exhortation To
- Job 22:21–30 Reconcile now and be at peace with Him; thereby good will come to you. …
False Hope of
- Job 8:13–18 Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so the hope of the godless will perish. …
God is Angry With
- Psalm 5:5–6 The boastful cannot stand in Your presence; You hate all workers of iniquity. …
- Psalm 7:11 God is a righteous judge and a God who feels indignation each day.
- Romans 9:13 So it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
- 1 Corinthians 10:5 Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness.
God's Mercy To
- Job 33:14–30 For God speaks in one way and in another, yet no one notices. …
Gospel Invitation To, Illustrated by the Parables of The Householder
- Matthew 20:1–16 “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. …
Gospel Invitation To, Illustrated by the Parables of The Marriage Supper
- Matthew 22:1–14 Once again, Jesus spoke to them in parables: …
Hate Reproof
- 1 Kings 22:8 The king of Israel answered, “There is still one man through whom we can inquire of the LORD, but I hate him because he never …
- 2 Chronicles 18:7 The king of Israel answered, “There is still one man through whom we can inquire of the LORD, but I hate him because he never …
Hate the Righteous
- Matthew 5:11–12 Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me. …
- Luke 6:22–23 Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil because of the Son of Man. …
Love For
- Deuteronomy 5:29 If only they had such a heart to fear Me and keep all My commandments always, so that it might be well with them and with their …
- Deuteronomy 32:29 If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.
- Matthew 18:11–14
- John 3:16–17 For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. …
- Romans 5:8 But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
- 1 John 3:16 By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
- 1 John 4:9–10 This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him. …
Prayer of
- Deuteronomy 1:45 And you returned and wept before the LORD, but He would not listen to your voice or give ear to you.
- Deuteronomy 3:26 But the LORD was angry with me on account of you, and He would not listen to me. “That is enough,” the LORD said to me. “Do not …
- 2 Samuel 22:42 They looked, but there was no one to save them — to the LORD, but He did not answer.
- Job 27:9 Will God hear his cry when distress comes upon him?
- Job 35:12–13 There they cry out, but He does not answer, because of the pride of evil men. …
- Psalm 18:41 They cried for help, but there was no one to save them — to the LORD, but He did not answer.
- Psalm 66:18 If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.
- Proverbs 1:24–28 Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand, …
- Proverbs 15:8 The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.
- Proverbs 15:29 The LORD is far from the wicked, but He hears the prayer of the righteous.
- Proverbs 21:13 Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he too shall cry out and receive no answer.
- Proverbs 21:27 The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable— how much more so when brought with ill intent!
- Proverbs 28:9 Whoever turns his ear away from hearing the law, even his prayer is detestable.
- Isaiah 1:15 When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. …
- Isaiah 45:19 I have not spoken in secret, from a place in a land of darkness. I did not say to the descendants of Jacob, ‘Seek Me in a …
- Isaiah 59:2 But your iniquities have built barriers between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He does not hear.
- Jeremiah 11:11 Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I am about to bring upon them a disaster that they cannot escape. They will cry out to Me, …
- Jeremiah 14:12 Although they may fast, I will not listen to their cry; although they may offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not …
- Jeremiah 15:1 Then the LORD said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My heart would not go out to this people. Send them …
- Jeremiah 18:17 I will scatter them before the enemy like the east wind. I will show them My back and not My face in the day of their calamity.”
- Lamentations 3:8 Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.
- Lamentations 3:44 You have covered Yourself with a cloud that no prayer can pass through.
- Ezekiel 8:18 Therefore I will respond with wrath. I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. Although they shout loudly in My …
- Ezekiel 20:3 “Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: Have you come to inquire of Me? As …
- Ezekiel 20:31 When you offer your gifts, sacrificing your sons in the fire, you continue to defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. …
- Hosea 5:6 They go with their flocks and herds to seek the LORD, but they do not find Him; He has withdrawn Himself from them.
- Micah 3:4 Then they will cry out to the LORD, but He will not answer them. At that time He will hide His face from them because of the evil …
- Zechariah 7:12–13 They made their hearts like flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the LORD of Hosts had sent by His Spirit …
- Malachi 1:9 “But ask now for God’s favor. Will He be gracious? Since this has come from your hands, will He show you favor?” asks the LORD of Hosts.
- Malachi 2:11–13 Judah has broken faith; an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the LORD’s beloved …
- John 9:31 We know that God does not listen to sinners, but He does listen to the one who worships Him and does His will.
- James 1:6–7 But he must ask in faith, without doubting, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. …
- James 4:3 And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures.
- 1 Peter 3:7 Husbands, in the same way, treat your wives with consideration as a delicate vessel, and with honor as fellow heirs of the …
Prosperity of
- Job 5:3–5 I have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly his house was cursed. …
- Job 12:6 The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure — those who carry their god in their hands.
- Job 15:21 Sounds of terror fill his ears; in his prosperity the destroyer attacks him.
- Job 15:23 He wanders about as food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.
- Job 15:27 Though his face is covered with fat and his waistline bulges with flesh,
- Job 15:29 He will no longer be rich; his wealth will not endure. His possessions will not overspread the land.
- Job 20:5 the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?
- Job 20:22 In the midst of his plenty, he will be distressed; the full force of misery will come upon him.
- Job 21:7–13 Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power? …
- Psalm 37:1 Do not fret over those who do evil; do not envy those who do wrong.
- Psalm 37:35–36 I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a well-rooted native tree, …
- Psalm 49:10–15 For it is clear that wise men die, and the foolish and the senseless both perish and leave their wealth to others. …
- Psalm 73:3–22 For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. …
- Psalm 92:6–7 A senseless man does not know, and a fool does not understand, …
- Ecclesiastes 8:12–13 Although a sinner does evil a hundred times and still lives long, yet I also know that it will go well with those who fear God, …
- Jeremiah 12:1–2 Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the …
- Habakkuk 1:3–4 Why do You make me see iniquity? Why do You tolerate wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me. Strife is ongoing, and …
- Habakkuk 1:13–17 Your eyes are too pure to look upon evil, and You cannot tolerate wrongdoing. So why do You tolerate the faithless? Why are You …
- Malachi 3:15 So now we call the arrogant blessed. Not only do evildoers prosper, they even test God and escape.’”
Punishment of
- Genesis 2:17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”
- Genesis 3:16–19 To the woman He said: “I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will …
- Genesis 4:7 If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you refuse to do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it …
- Genesis 6:3 So the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days shall be 120 years.”
- Genesis 6:7 So the LORD said, “I will blot out man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth — every man and beast and crawling …
- Genesis 6:12–13 And God looked upon the earth and saw that it was corrupt; for all living creatures on the earth had corrupted their ways. …
- Exodus 20:5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers …
- Exodus 32:33–35 The LORD replied to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot out of My book. …
- Exodus 34:7 maintaining loving devotion to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin. Yet He will by no means leave …
- Leviticus 26:14 If, however, you fail to obey Me and to carry out all these commandments,
- Leviticus 26:16–39 then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight …
- Numbers 15:31 He shall certainly be cut off, because he has despised the word of the LORD and broken His commandment; his guilt remains on him.”
- Numbers 32:23 But if you do not do this, you will certainly sin against the LORD — and be assured that your sin will find you out.
- Deuteronomy 7:9–10 Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion for a thousand …
- Deuteronomy 11:26 See, today I am setting before you a blessing and a curse —
- Deuteronomy 11:28 but a curse if you disobey the commandments of the LORD your God and turn aside from the path I command you today by following …
- Deuteronomy 28:15–68 If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, …
- Deuteronomy 30:15 See, I have set before you today life and prosperity, as well as death and disaster.
- Deuteronomy 30:19 I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore …
- Deuteronomy 31:29 For I know that after my death you will become utterly corrupt and turn from the path I have commanded you. And in the days to …
- 1 Samuel 3:11–14 Then the LORD said to Samuel, “I am about to do something in Israel at which the ears of all who hear it will tingle. …
- 1 Samuel 12:25 But if you persist in doing evil, both you and your king will be swept away.”
- 2 Samuel 3:39 And I am weak this day, though anointed as king, and these men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too fierce for me. May the LORD repay …
- 2 Samuel 7:14 I will be his Father, and he will be My son. When he does wrong, I will discipline him with the rod of men and with the blows of …
- 2 Samuel 22:27–28 to the pure You show Yourself pure, but to the crooked You show Yourself shrewd. …
- 2 Samuel 23:6–7 But the worthless are all like thorns raked aside, for they can never be gathered by hand. …
- 1 Kings 21:20–21 When Elijah arrived, Ahab said to him, “So you have found me out, my enemy.” He replied, “I have found you out because you have …
- 1 Chronicles 10:13–14 So Saul died for his unfaithfulness to the LORD, because he did not keep the word of the LORD and even consulted a medium for guidance, …
- 1 Chronicles 15:13 It was because you Levites were not with us the first time that the LORD our God burst forth in anger against us. For we did not …
- 1 Chronicles 28:9 As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind, for the LORD …
- 2 Chronicles 15:2 So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The LORD is with you when you are with …
- Job 4:8–9 As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same. …
- Job 5:3 I have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly his house was cursed.
- Job 5:14 They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.
- Job 8:20 Behold, God does not reject the blameless, nor will He strengthen the hand of evildoers.
- Job 8:22 Your enemies will be clothed in shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more.”
- Job 10:14–15 If I sinned, You would take note, and would not acquit me of my iniquity. …
- Job 11:20 But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and escape will elude them; they will hope for their last breath.”
- Job 15:20–24 A wicked man writhes in pain all his days; only a few years are reserved for the ruthless. …
- Job 15:28–30 he will dwell in ruined cities, in abandoned houses destined to become rubble. …
- Job 18:5–21 Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow. …
- Job 19:29 then you should fear the sword yourselves, because wrath brings punishment by the sword, so that you may know there is a judgment.”
- Job 20:5–29 the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary? …
- Job 21:7–33 Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power? …
- Job 27:8–23 For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off, when God takes away his life? …
- Job 31:3 Does not disaster come to the unjust and calamity to the workers of iniquity?
- Job 34:22 There is no darkness or deep shadow where the workers of iniquity can hide.
- Job 36:12 But if they do not obey, then they perish by the sword and die without knowledge.
- Job 36:17 But now you are laden with the judgment due the wicked; judgment and justice have seized you.
- Psalm 1:4–6 Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind. …
- Psalm 2:4–5 The One enthroned in heaven laughs; the Lord taunts them. …
- Psalm 2:9 You will break them with an iron scepter; You will shatter them like pottery.”
- Psalm 3:7 Arise, O LORD! Save me, O my God! Strike all my enemies on the jaw; break the teeth of the wicked.
- Psalm 5:5 The boastful cannot stand in Your presence; You hate all workers of iniquity.
- Psalm 7:11–13 God is a righteous judge and a God who feels indignation each day. …
- Psalm 9:5 You have rebuked the nations; You have destroyed the wicked; You have erased their name forever and ever.
- Psalm 9:17 The wicked will return to Sheol— all the nations who forget God.
- Psalm 10:15 Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; call him to account for his wickedness until none is left to be found.
- Psalm 11:6 On the wicked He will rain down fiery coals and sulfur; a scorching wind will be their portion.
- Psalm 18:14 He shot His arrows and scattered the foes; He hurled lightning and routed them.
- Psalm 18:26–27 to the pure You show Yourself pure, but to the crooked You show Yourself shrewd. …
- Psalm 21:9–10 You will place them in a fiery furnace at the time of Your appearing. In His wrath the LORD will engulf them, and the fire will …
- Psalm 28:4–5 Repay them according to their deeds and for their works of evil. Repay them for what their hands have done; bring back on them …
- Psalm 32:10 Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but loving devotion surrounds him who trusts in the LORD.
- Psalm 34:16 But the face of the LORD is against those who do evil, to wipe out all memory of them from the earth.
- Psalm 34:21 Evil will slay the wicked, and the haters of the righteous will be condemned.
- Psalm 36:12 There the evildoers lie fallen, thrown down and unable to rise.
- Psalm 37:1–2 Do not fret over those who do evil; do not envy those who do wrong. …
- Psalm 37:9–10 For the evildoers will be cut off, but those who hope in the LORD will inherit the land. …
- Psalm 37:13–22 but the Lord laughs, seeing that their day is coming. …
- Psalm 37:34–38 Wait for the LORD and keep His way, and He will raise you up to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you will see it. …
- Psalm 39:11 You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah
- Psalm 50:22 Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:
- Psalm 52:5 Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you …
- Psalm 55:19 God will hear and humiliate them — the One enthroned for the ages — Selah because they do not change and they have no fear of God.
- Psalm 55:23 But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. …
- Psalm 56:7 In spite of such sin, will they escape? In Your anger, O God, cast down the nations.
- Psalm 58:6–9 O God, shatter their teeth in their mouths; O LORD, tear out the fangs of the lions. …
- 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
- Psalm 59:8 But You, O LORD, laugh at them; You scoff at all the nations.
- Psalm 62:3 How long will you threaten a man? Will all of you throw him down like a leaning wall or a tottering fence?
- Psalm 64:7–8 But God will shoot them with arrows; suddenly they will be wounded. …
- Psalm 68:1–2 God arises. His enemies are scattered, and those who hate Him flee His presence. …
- Psalm 68:6 God settles the lonely in families; He leads the prisoners out to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.
- Psalm 68:21 Surely God will crush the heads of His enemies, the hairy crowns of those who persist in guilty ways.
- Psalm 73:2–21 But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled; my steps had nearly slipped. …
- Psalm 73:27 Those far from You will surely perish; You destroy all who are unfaithful to You.
- 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 …
- Psalm 75:10 “All the horns of the wicked I will cut off, but the horns of the righteous will be exalted.”
- Psalm 78:1–67 Give ear, O my people, to my instruction; listen to the words of my mouth. …
- Psalm 89:10 You crushed Rahab like a carcass; You scattered Your enemies with Your mighty arm.
- Psalm 89:31–32 if they violate My statutes and fail to keep My commandments, …
- Psalm 91:8 You will only see it with your eyes and witness the punishment of the wicked.
- Psalm 92:7 that though the wicked sprout like grass, and all evildoers flourish, they will be forever destroyed.
- Psalm 92:9 For surely Your enemies, O LORD, surely Your enemies will perish; all evildoers will be scattered.
- Psalm 94:13 to grant him relief from days of trouble, until a pit is dug for the wicked.
- Psalm 94:23 He will bring upon them their own iniquity and destroy them for their wickedness. The LORD our God will destroy them.
- Psalm 97:3 Fire goes before Him and consumes His foes on every side.
- 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.
- Psalm 104:35 May sinners vanish from the earth and the wicked be no more. Bless the LORD, O my soul. Hallelujah!
- Psalm 106:18 Then fire blazed through their company; flames consumed the wicked.
- Psalm 106:43 Many times He rescued them, but they were bent on rebellion and sank down in their iniquity.
- Psalm 107:17 Fools, in their rebellious ways, and through their iniquities, suffered affliction.
- Psalm 107:34 and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.
- Psalm 109:6–19 Set over him a wicked man; let an accuser stand at his right hand. …
- Psalm 119:21 You rebuke the arrogant — the cursed who stray from Your commandments.
- Psalm 119:118–119 You reject all who stray from Your statutes, for their deceitfulness is in vain. …
- Psalm 119:155 Salvation is far from the wicked because they do not seek Your statutes.
- Psalm 129:4 The LORD is righteous; He has cut me from the cords of the wicked.
- Psalm 139:19 O God, that You would slay the wicked— away from me, you bloodthirsty men—
- Psalm 145:20 The LORD preserves all who love Him, but all the wicked He will destroy.
- Psalm 146:9 The LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.
- Psalm 147:6 The LORD sustains the humble, but casts the wicked to the ground.
- Proverbs 2:22 but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted.
- Proverbs 3:33 The curse of the LORD is on the house of the wicked, but He blesses the home of the righteous.
- Proverbs 6:12–15 A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth, …
- Proverbs 10:3 The LORD does not let the righteous go hungry, but He denies the craving of the wicked.
- Proverbs 10:6–8 Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence. …
- Proverbs 10:24–25 What the wicked man dreads will overtake him, but the desire of the righteous will be granted. …
- Proverbs 10:27–31 The fear of the LORD prolongs life, but the years of the wicked will be cut short. …
- Proverbs 11:3 The integrity of the upright guides them, but the perversity of the faithless destroys them.
- Proverbs 11:5–8 The righteousness of the blameless directs their path, but the wicked fall by their own wickedness. …
- Proverbs 11:19 Genuine righteousness leads to life, but the pursuit of evil brings death.
- Proverbs 11:21 Be assured that the wicked will not go unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will escape.
- Proverbs 11:23 The desire of the righteous leads only to good, but the hope of the wicked brings wrath.
- Proverbs 11:31 If the righteous receive their due on earth, how much more the ungodly and the sinner!
- Proverbs 12:2–3 The good man obtains favor from the LORD, but the LORD condemns a man who devises evil. …
- Proverbs 12:7 The wicked are overthrown and perish, but the house of the righteous will stand.
- Proverbs 13:2 From the fruit of his lips a man enjoys good things, but the desire of the faithless is violence.
- Proverbs 13:5–6 The righteous hate falsehood, but the wicked bring shame and disgrace. …
- Proverbs 13:9 The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is extinguished.
- Proverbs 13:21 Disaster pursues sinners, but prosperity is the reward of the righteous.
- Proverbs 13:25 A righteous man eats to his heart’s content, but the stomach of the wicked is empty.
- Proverbs 14:12 There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.
- Proverbs 14:19 The evil bow before the good, and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.
- Proverbs 14:32 The wicked man is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous man has a refuge even in death.
- Proverbs 16:4–5 The LORD has made everything for His purpose— even the wicked for the day of disaster. …
- Proverbs 16:25 There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.
- Proverbs 18:3 With a wicked man comes contempt as well, and shame is accompanied by disgrace.
- Proverbs 19:16 He who keeps a commandment preserves his soul, but he who is careless in his ways will die.
- Proverbs 21:12 The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked and brings the wicked to ruin.
- Proverbs 21:15–16 Justice executed is a joy to the righteous, but a terror to the workers of iniquity. …
- Proverbs 22:5 Thorns and snares lie on the path of the perverse; he who guards his soul stays far from them.
- Proverbs 22:23 for the LORD will take up their case and will plunder those who rob them.
- Proverbs 24:20 For the evil man has no future; the lamp of the wicked will be extinguished.
- Proverbs 24:22 For they will bring sudden destruction. Who knows what ruin they can bring?
- Proverbs 26:10 Like an archer who wounds at random is he who hires a fool or passerby.
- Proverbs 28:14 Blessed is the man who is always reverent, but he who hardens his heart falls into trouble.
- Proverbs 28:18 He who walks with integrity will be kept safe, but whoever is perverse in his ways will suddenly fall.
- Proverbs 29:1 A man who remains stiff-necked after much reproof will suddenly be shattered beyond recovery.
- Proverbs 29:16 When the wicked thrive, rebellion increases; but the righteous will see their downfall.
- Ecclesiastes 2:26 To the man who is pleasing in His sight, He gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner He assigns the task of …
- Ecclesiastes 7:17 Do not be excessively wicked, and do not be a fool. Why should you die before your time?
- Ecclesiastes 8:12–13 Although a sinner does evil a hundred times and still lives long, yet I also know that it will go well with those who fear God, …
- Isaiah 2:19 Men will flee to caves in the rocks and holes in the ground, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His …
- Isaiah 3:11 Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them! For they will be repaid with what their hands have done.
- Isaiah 5:11–14 Woe to those who rise early in the morning in pursuit of strong drink, who linger into the evening, to be inflamed by wine. …
- Isaiah 5:24 Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their …
- Isaiah 9:18 For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes the thorns and briers and kindles the forest thickets, which roll upward in billows of smoke.
- Isaiah 10:3 What will you do on the day of reckoning when devastation comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?
- Isaiah 11:4 but with righteousness He will judge the poor, and with equity He will decide for the lowly of the earth. He will strike the …
- Isaiah 13:8–9 Terror, pain, and anguish will seize them; they will writhe like a woman in labor. They will look at one another, their faces …
- Isaiah 13:11 I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their iniquity. I will end the haughtiness of the arrogant and lay low …
- Isaiah 24:17–18 Terror and pit and snare await you, O dweller of the earth. …
- Isaiah 26:21 For behold, the LORD is coming out of His dwelling to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth will …
- Isaiah 28:18–22 Your covenant with death will be dissolved, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand. When the overwhelming scourge passes …
Spirit of God Withdrawn From
- Genesis 6:3 So the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days shall be 120 years.”
- Hosea 4:17–19 Ephraim is joined to idols; leave him alone! …
- Romans 1:24 Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another.
- Romans 1:26 For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.
- Romans 1:28 Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
Temporal Punishment of
- Job 27:13–23 This is the wicked man’s portion from God — the heritage the ruthless receive from the Almighty. …
- Job 15:20–35 A wicked man writhes in pain all his days; only a few years are reserved for the ruthless. …
- Job 18:5–21 Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow. …
- Job 20:5–29 the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary? …
- Job 21:7–33 Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power? …
- Job 24:2–24 Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks. …
- Jeremiah 5:25 Your iniquities have diverted these from you; your sins have deprived you of My bounty.
- Ezekiel 11:10 You will fall by the sword, and I will judge you even to the borders of Israel. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
- Ezekiel 12:19–20 Then tell the people of the land that this is what the Lord GOD says about those living in Jerusalem and in the land of Israel: …
- Zechariah 14:17–19 And should any of the families of the earth not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of Hosts, then the rain will not …
Terrors of, at the Judgment
- Revelation 1:7 Behold, He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see Him — even those who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth …
Warned
- Jeremiah 7:13–15 And now, because you have done all these things, declares the LORD, and because I have spoken to you again and again but you …
- Jeremiah 7:23–25 but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I …
- Jeremiah 25:4–6 And the LORD has sent all His servants the prophets to you again and again, but you have not listened or inclined your ear to hear. …
- Jeremiah 26:2–7 “This is what the LORD says: Stand in the courtyard of the house of the LORD and speak all the words I have commanded you to …
- Jeremiah 26:12–13 But Jeremiah said to all the officials and all the people, “The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city …
- Jeremiah 29:17–19 this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I will send against them sword and famine and plague, and I will make them like rotten …
- Ezekiel 33:8 If I say to the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you will surely die,’ but you do not speak out to dissuade him from his way, then that …
- Daniel 4:4–27 I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at ease in my house and flourishing in my palace. …
- Daniel 5:4–29 As they drank the wine, they praised their gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone. …
- Zephaniah 2:1–2 Gather yourselves, gather together, O shameful nation, …
- Luke 3:7–9 Then John said to the crowds coming out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? …
- 1 Corinthians 10:11 Now these things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.
- Jude 4–7 For certain men have crept in among you unnoticed — ungodly ones who were designated long ago for condemnation. They turn the …
- Revelation 3:1–3 “To the angel of the church in Sardis write: These are the words of the One who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven …
- Revelation 3:16–19 So because you are lukewarm — neither hot nor cold — I am about to vomit you out of My mouth! …
Worship of, offensive to God
- Psalm 50:16–17 To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips? …
- Isaiah 1:10–15 Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the instruction of our God, you people of Gomorrah! …
Related topics
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.