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Wickedness



Proverbs 4:14

Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil [men].

Proverbs 4:19

The way of the wicked [is] as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.

Proverbs 5:22

His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.

Proverbs 6:12

A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.

Proverbs 6:18

An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,

Proverbs 9:7

He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked [man getteth] himself a blot.

Proverbs 10:3

The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.



Proverbs 10:6

Blessings [are] upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

Proverbs 10:7

The memory of the just [is] blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.

Proverbs 10:11

The mouth of a righteous [man is] a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

Proverbs 10:16

The labour of the righteous [tendeth] to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.

Proverbs 10:20

The tongue of the just [is as] choice silver: the heart of the wicked [is] little worth.

Proverbs 10:24

The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.

Proverbs 10:25

As the whirlwind passeth, so [is] the wicked no [more]: but the righteous [is] an everlasting foundation.



Proverbs 10:27

The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

Proverbs 10:28

The hope of the righteous [shall be] gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.

Proverbs 10:30

The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.

Proverbs 10:32

The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked [speaketh] frowardness.

Proverbs 11:5

The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

Proverbs 11:7

When a wicked man dieth, [his] expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust [men] perisheth.

Proverbs 11:8

The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked cometh in his stead.



Proverbs 11:10

When it goeth well with the righteous, the city rejoiceth: and when the wicked perish, [there is] shouting.

Proverbs 11:11

By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.

Proverbs 11:18

The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness [shall be] a sure reward.

Proverbs 11:21

[Though] hand [join] in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.

Proverbs 11:23

The desire of the righteous [is] only good: [but] the expectation of the wicked [is] wrath.

Proverbs 11:31

Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.

Proverbs 12:2

A good [man] obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.



Proverbs 12:5

The thoughts of the righteous [are] right: [but] the counsels of the wicked [are] deceit.

Proverbs 12:6

The words of the wicked [are] to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

Proverbs 12:7

The wicked are overthrown, and [are] not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.

Proverbs 12:10

A righteous [man] regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked [are] cruel.

Proverbs 12:12

The wicked desireth the net of evil [men]: but the root of the righteous yieldeth [fruit].

Proverbs 12:13

The wicked is snared by the transgression of [his] lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.

Proverbs 12:21

There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief.



Proverbs 12:26

The righteous [is] more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.

Proverbs 13:5

A righteous [man] hateth lying: but a wicked [man] is loathsome, and cometh to shame.

Proverbs 13:9

The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

Proverbs 13:17

A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador [is] health.

Proverbs 13:25

The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul: but the belly of the wicked shall want.

Proverbs 14:11

The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.

Proverbs 14:17

[He that is] soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated.

Proverbs 14:19

The evil bow before the good; and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.

Proverbs 15:6

In the house of the righteous [is] much treasure: but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble.

Proverbs 15:8

The sacrifice of the wicked [is] an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright [is] his delight.

Proverbs 15:9

The way of the wicked [is] an abomination unto the LORD: but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness.

Proverbs 15:26

The thoughts of the wicked [are] an abomination to the LORD: but [the words] of the pure [are] pleasant words.

Proverbs 15:28

The heart of the righteous studieth to answer: but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things.

Proverbs 15:29

The LORD [is] far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.

Proverbs 16:4

The LORD hath made all [things] for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

Proverbs 17:4

A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; [and] a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.

Proverbs 17:15

He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both [are] abomination to the LORD.

Proverbs 17:23

A wicked [man] taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.

Proverbs 18:3

When the wicked cometh, [then] cometh also contempt, and with ignominy reproach.

Proverbs 18:5

[It is] not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.

Proverbs 19:28

An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity.

Proverbs 20:26

A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.

Proverbs 21:4

An high look, and a proud heart, [and] the plowing of the wicked, [is] sin.

Proverbs 21:7

The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.

Proverbs 21:10

The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes.

Proverbs 21:12

The righteous [man] wisely considereth the house of the wicked: [but God] overthroweth the wicked for [their] wickedness.

Proverbs 21:18

The wicked [shall be] a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.

Proverbs 21:27

The sacrifice of the wicked [is] abomination: how much more, [when] he bringeth it with a wicked mind?

Proverbs 21:29

A wicked man hardeneth his face: but [as for] the upright, he directeth his way.

Proverbs 24:15

Lay not wait, O wicked [man], against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:

Proverbs 24:16

For a just [man] falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.

Proverbs 24:19

Fret not thyself because of evil [men], neither be thou envious at the wicked;

Proverbs 24:20

For there shall be no reward to the evil [man]; the candle of the wicked shall be put out.

Proverbs 24:24

He that saith unto the wicked, Thou [art] righteous; him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor him:

Proverbs 25:5

Take away the wicked [from] before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.

Proverbs 25:26

A righteous man falling down before the wicked [is as] a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.

Proverbs 26:23

Burning lips and a wicked heart [are like] a potsherd covered with silver dross.

Proverbs 28:1

The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.

Proverbs 28:4

They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.

Proverbs 28:12

When righteous [men] do rejoice, [there is] great glory: but when the wicked rise, a man is hidden.

Proverbs 28:15

[As] a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; [so is] a wicked ruler over the poor people.

Proverbs 28:28

When the wicked rise, men hide themselves: but when they perish, the righteous increase.

Proverbs 29:2

When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.

Proverbs 29:7

The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: [but] the wicked regardeth not to know [it].

Proverbs 29:12

If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants [are] wicked.

Proverbs 29:16

When the wicked are multiplied, transgression increaseth: but the righteous shall see their fall.

Proverbs 29:27

An unjust man [is] an abomination to the just: and [he that is] upright in the way [is] abomination to the wicked.

Ecclesiastes 3:17

I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for [there is] a time there for every purpose and for every work.

Ecclesiastes 7:15

All [things] have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just [man] that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked [man] that prolongeth [his life] in his wickedness.

Ecclesiastes 7:17

Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?

Ecclesiastes 8:10

And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this [is] also vanity.

Ecclesiastes 8:13

But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong [his] days, [which are] as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.

Ecclesiastes 8:14

There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just [men], unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked [men], to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also [is] vanity.

Ecclesiastes 9:2

All [things come] alike to all: [there is] one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as [is] the good, so [is] the sinner; [and] he that sweareth, as [he] that feareth an oath.

Isaiah 3:11

Woe unto the wicked! [it shall be] ill [with him]: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

Isaiah 5:23

Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

Isaiah 11:4

But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.

Isaiah 13:11

And I will punish the world for [their] evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

Isaiah 14:5

The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, [and] the sceptre of the rulers.

Isaiah 26:10

Let favour be showed to the wicked, [yet] will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.

Isaiah 32:7

The instruments also of the churl [are] evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.

Isaiah 48:22

[There is] no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked.

Isaiah 53:9

And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither [was any] deceit in his mouth.

Isaiah 55:7

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

Isaiah 57:20

But the wicked [are] like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.

Isaiah 57:21

[There is] no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.

Jeremiah 2:33

Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.

Jeremiah 5:26

For among my people are found wicked [men]: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

Jeremiah 5:28

They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.

Jeremiah 6:29

The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.

Jeremiah 12:1

Righteous [art] thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of [thy] judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? [wherefore] are all they happy that deal very treacherously?

Jeremiah 15:21

And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Jeremiah 23:19

Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.

Jeremiah 25:31

A noise shall come [even] to the ends of the earth; for the LORD hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them [that are] wicked to the sword, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 30:23

Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD goeth forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked.

Ezekiel 3:18

When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked [man] shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.

Ezekiel 3:19

Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.

Ezekiel 7:21

And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.

Ezekiel 8:9

And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.

Ezekiel 11:2

Then said he unto me, Son of man, these [are] the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city:

Ezekiel 13:22

Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life:

Ezekiel 18:20

The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.

Ezekiel 18:21

But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

Ezekiel 18:23

Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: [and] not that he should return from his ways, and live?

Ezekiel 18:24

But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, [and] doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked [man] doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.

Ezekiel 18:27

Again, when the wicked [man] turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.

Ezekiel 20:44

And ye shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I have wrought with you for my name's sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, O ye house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel 21:3

And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I [am] against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked.

Ezekiel 21:4

Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:

Ezekiel 21:25

And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity [shall have] an end,

Ezekiel 21:29

Whiles they see vanity unto thee, whiles they divine a lie unto thee, to bring thee upon the necks of [them that are] slain, of the wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity [shall have] an end.

Ezekiel 30:12

And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have spoken [it].

Ezekiel 33:8

When I say unto the wicked, O wicked [man], thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked [man] shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.

Ezekiel 33:9

Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.

Ezekiel 33:11

Say unto them, [As] I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

Ezekiel 33:12

Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his [righteousness] in the day that he sinneth.

Ezekiel 33:14

Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;

Ezekiel 33:15

[If] the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.

Ezekiel 33:19

But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.

Daniel 12:10

Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.

Micha 6:10

Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure [that is] abominable?

Micha 6:11

Shall I count [them] pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?

Nahum 1:3

The LORD [is] slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit [the wicked]: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds [are] the dust of his feet.

Nahum 1:11

There is [one] come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counsellor.

Nahum 1:15

Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off.

Habakkuk 1:4

Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.

Habakkuk 1:13

[Thou art] of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, [and] holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth [the man that is] more righteous than he?

Habakkuk 3:13

Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, [even] for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah.

Zephania 1:3

I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD.

Malachi 3:18

Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.


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