85 Bible Verses about Character Of Wicked
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For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, uplifted in pride, given to bitter words, going against the authority of their fathers, never giving praise, having no religion, Without natural love, bitter haters, saying evil of others, violent and uncontrolled, hating all good, False to their friends, acting without thought, lifted up in mind, loving pleasure more than God;
They have become false, they are not his children, the mark of sin is on them; they are an evil and hard-hearted generation.
Being full of all wrongdoing, evil, desire for the goods of others, hate, envy, putting to death, fighting, deceit, cruel ways, evil talk, and false statements about others;
The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good.
You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.
And as James and Jambres went against Moses, so do these go against what is true: men of evil minds, who, tested by faith, are seen to be false.
Their only thought is to put him down from his place of honour; their delight is in deceit: blessing is in their mouths but cursing in their hearts. (Selah.)
Is it possible for me to let wrong scales and the bag of false weights go without punishment?
But they were hard-hearted, and went against your authority, turning their backs on your law, and putting to death your prophets, who gave witness against them with the purpose of turning them back again to you, and they did much to make you angry.
The evil-doer in his pride is cruel to the poor; let him be taken by the tricks of his invention. For the evil-doer is lifted up because of the purpose of his heart, and he whose mind is fixed on wealth is turned away from the Lord, saying evil against him. The evil-doer in his pride says, God will not make a search. All his thoughts are, There is no God.
Their feet go quickly to evil, and they take delight in the death of the upright; their thoughts are thoughts of sin; wasting and destruction are in their ways.
For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.
Their throat is like an open place of death; with their tongues they have said what is not true: the poison of snakes is under their lips:
And the Lord said, because this people come near to me with their mouths, and give honour to me with their lips, but their heart is far from me, and their fear of me is false, a rule given them by the teaching of men;
For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, uplifted in pride, given to bitter words, going against the authority of their fathers, never giving praise, having no religion,
That you are to put away, in relation to your earlier way of life, the old man, which has become evil by love of deceit;
No one puts forward an upright cause, or gives a true decision: their hope is in deceit, and their words are false; they are with child with sin, and give birth to evil.
For you are not a God who takes pleasure in wrongdoing; there is no evil with you.
The evil-doer in his pride says, God will not make a search. All his thoughts are, There is no God.
Who having no more power of feeling, have given themselves up to evil passions, to do all unclean things with overmuch desire.
But those who are full of fear and without faith, the unclean and takers of life, those who do the sins of the flesh, and those who make use of evil powers or who give worship to images, and all those who are false, will have their part in the sea of ever-burning fire which is the second death.
Whose thoughts are dark, to whom the life of God is strange because they are without knowledge, and their hearts have been made hard;
And you, who in the past were cut off and at war with God in your minds through evil works, he has now made one
And men were burned with great heat: and they said evil things against the name of the God who has authority over these punishments; and they were not turned from their evil ways to give him glory.
Because the god of this world has made blind the minds of those who have not faith, so that the light of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, might not be shining on them.
For the evil-doer is lifted up because of the purpose of his heart, and he whose mind is fixed on wealth is turned away from the Lord, saying evil against him.
Even of those whose faith is in their wealth, and whose hearts are lifted up because of their stores.
And they made designs, all of them together, to come and make an attack on Jerusalem, causing trouble there.
Sanballat and Geshem sent to me saying, Come, let us have a meeting in one of the little towns in the lowland of Ono. But their purpose was to do me evil.
They have a desire for fields and take them by force; and for houses and take them away: they are cruel to a man and his family, even to a man and his heritage.
You will send destruction on those whose words are false; the cruel man and the man of deceit are hated by the Lord.
Who, though they have knowledge of the law of God, that the fate of those who do these things is death, not only go on doing these things themselves, but give approval to those who do them.
But Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, hearing of it, made sport of us, laughing at us and saying, What are you doing? will you go against the king?
And in the hearing of his countrymen and the army of Samaria he said, What are these feeble Jews doing? will they make themselves strong? will they make offerings? will they get the work done in a day? will they make the stones which have been burned come again out of the dust?
And the value is for you who have faith; but it is said for those without faith, The very stone which the builders put on one side, was made the chief stone of the building;
For these are they who go secretly into houses, making prisoners of foolish women, weighted down with sin, turned from the way by their evil desires,
And Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, hearing of it, were greatly troubled because a man had come to the help of the children of Israel.
The evil man goes running away when no man is after him, but the upright are without fear, like the lion.
A violent man puts desire of evil into his neighbour's mind, and makes him go in a way which is not good.
Without natural love, bitter haters, saying evil of others, violent and uncontrolled, hating all good,
Is this your answer to the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? Is he not your father who has given you life? He has made you and given you your place.
So is the end of all who do not keep God in mind; and the hope of the evil-doer comes to nothing:
The sinner takes money and does not give it back; but the upright man has mercy, and gives to others.
Whose end is destruction, whose god is the stomach, and whose glory is in their shame, whose minds are fixed on the things of the earth.
But the children of Israel will not give ear to you; for they have no mind to give ear to me: for all the children of Israel have a hard brow and a stiff heart.
Then there are those who are haters of the light, who have no knowledge of its ways, and do not go in them.
The light is hated by everyone whose acts are evil and he does not come to the light for fear that his acts will be seen.
False to their friends, acting without thought, lifted up in mind, loving pleasure more than God;
Because the mind of the flesh is opposite to God; it is not under the law of God, and is not able to be:
Having a form of religion, but turning their backs on the power of it: go not with these.
Give ear to the word of the Lord, O children of Israel; for the Lord has a cause against the people of this land, because there is no good faith in it, and no mercy and no knowledge of God in the land.
To give punishment to those who have no knowledge of God, and to those who do not give ear to the good news of our Lord Jesus:
And the children are hard and stiff-hearted; I am sending you to them: and you are to say to them, These are the words of the Lord.
The upright man is a hater of false words: the evil-doer gets a bad name and is put to shame.
The evil-doers are strange from the first; from the hour of their birth they go out of the true way, saying false words.
Their hands are made ready to do evil; the ruler makes requests for money, and the judge is looking for a reward; and the great man gives decisions at his pleasure, and the right is twisted.
He is waiting in the dark places of the towns: in the secret places he puts to death those who have done no wrong: his eyes are secretly turned against the poor.
They put to death the widow and the guest, they take the lives of children who have no father;
Twisted is the way of him who is full of crime; but as for him whose heart is clean, his work is upright.
I was quickly angry with his evil ways, and sent punishment on him, veiling my face in wrath: and he went on, turning his heart from me.
What is the Ruler of all, that we may give him worship? and what profit is it to us to make prayer to him?
Have the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food, as they would take bread; they make no prayer to God.
Because they are cruel to him against whom your hand is turned; they make bitter the grief of him who is wounded by you.
Because he had no mercy, but was cruel to the low and the poor, designing the death of the broken-hearted.
Because of the sin of their mouths and the word of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride; and for their curses and their deceit,
But they took pleasure in my trouble, and came together, yes, low persons came together against me without my knowledge; they never came to an end of wounding me.
Make a test of yourselves, if you are in the faith; make certain of yourselves. Or are you not conscious in yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you, if you are truly Christ's?
They say that they have knowledge of God, while by their acts they are turning their backs on him; they are hated by all, hard-hearted, and judged to be without value for any good work.
And Ahab said to Elijah, Have you come face to face with me, O my hater? And he said, I have come to you because you have given yourself up to do evil in the eyes of the Lord.
And they made their sons and their daughters go through the fire, and they made use of secret arts and unnatural powers, and gave themselves up to doing evil in the eyes of the Lord, till he was moved to wrath.
And the Lord said to Moses, Say to the children of Israel, You are a stiff-necked people: if I come among you, even for a minute, I will send destruction on you; so take off all your ornaments, so that I may see what to do with you.
On Egypt and on Judah and on Edom and on the children of Ammon and on Moab and on all who have the ends of their hair cut, who are living in the waste land: for all these nations and all the people of Israel are without circumcision in their hearts.
At the death of an upright man his hope does not come to an end, but the hope of the evil-doer comes to destruction.
Even if you are kind to the evil-doer, he will not go after righteousness; even in the land of the upright he will still go on in his wrongdoing, and will not see the glory of the Lord.
A good-for-nothing man is a designer of evil, and in his lips there is a burning fire.
They have all gone out of the way, there is no profit in any of them; there is not one who does good, not so much as one:
For there are men who are not ruled by law; foolish talkers, false teachers, specially those of the circumcision,
But be loving to those who are against you and do them good, and give them your money, not giving up hope, and your reward will be great and you will be the sons of the Most High: for he is kind to evil men, and to those who have hard hearts.
And with more such words he gave his witness, offering them salvation and saying, Come out from this evil generation.
