86 Bible Verses about Character Of Wicked
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For people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, savage, opposed to what is good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, loving pleasure rather than loving God.
His people have been unfaithful to him; they have not acted like his children -- this is their sin. They are a perverse and deceitful generation.
They are filled with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice. They are rife with envy, murder, strife, deceit, hostility. They are gossips,
For the music director; by David. Fools say to themselves, "There is no God." They sin and commit evil deeds; none of them does what is right.
"You stubborn people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit, like your ancestors did!
And just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these people -- who have warped minds and are disqualified in the faith -- also oppose the truth.
They spend all their time planning how to bring him down. They love to use deceit; they pronounce blessings with their mouths, but inwardly they utter curses. (Selah)
"Nonetheless they grew disobedient and rebelled against you; they disregarded your law. They killed your prophets who had solemnly admonished them in order to cause them to return to you. They committed atrocious blasphemies.
The wicked arrogantly chase the oppressed; the oppressed are trapped by the schemes the wicked have dreamed up. Yes, the wicked man boasts because he gets what he wants; the one who robs others curses and rejects the Lord. The wicked man is so arrogant he always thinks, "God won't hold me accountable; he doesn't care."
They are eager to do evil, quick to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful; they crush and destroy.
For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.
"Their throats are open graves, they deceive with their tongues, the poison of asps is under their lips."
The sovereign master says, "These people say they are loyal to me; they say wonderful things about me, but they are not really loyal to me. Their worship consists of nothing but man-made ritual.
For people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
You were taught with reference to your former way of life to lay aside the old man who is being corrupted in accordance with deceitful desires,
No one is concerned about justice; no one sets forth his case truthfully. They depend on false words and tell lies; they conceive of oppression and give birth to sin.
Certainly you are not a God who approves of evil; evil people cannot dwell with you.
The wicked man is so arrogant he always thinks, "God won't hold me accountable; he doesn't care."
Because they are callous, they have given themselves over to indecency for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.
But to the cowards, unbelievers, detestable persons, murderers, the sexually immoral, and those who practice magic spells, idol worshipers, and all those who lie, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. That is the second death."
They are darkened in their understanding, being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.
And you were at one time strangers and enemies in your minds as expressed through your evil deeds,
Thus people were scorched by the terrible heat, yet they blasphemed the name of God, who has ruling authority over these plagues, and they would not repent and give him glory.
among whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of those who do not believe so they would not see the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God.
Yes, the wicked man boasts because he gets what he wants; the one who robs others curses and rejects the Lord.
All of them conspired together to move with armed forces against Jerusalem and to create a disturbance in it.
Sanballat and Geshem sent word to me saying, "Come on! Let's set up a time to meet together at Kephirim in the plain of Ono." Now they intended to do me harm.
Those who seek my life try to entrap me; those who want to harm me speak destructive words; all day long they say deceitful things.
They confiscate the fields they desire, and seize the houses they want. They defraud people of their homes, and deprive people of the land they have inherited.
Although they fully know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but also approve of those who practice them.
But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard all this, they derided us and expressed contempt toward us. They said, "What is this you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?"
and in the presence of his colleagues and the army of Samaria he said, "What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they be left to themselves? Will they again offer sacrifice? Will they finish this in a day? Can they bring these burnt stones to life again from piles of dust?"
So you who believe see his value, but for those who do not believe, the stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,
For some of these insinuate themselves into households and captivate weak women who are overwhelmed with sins and led along by various passions.
When Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official heard all this, they were very displeased that someone had come to seek benefit for the Israelites.
The wicked person flees when there is no one pursuing, but the righteous person is as confident as a lion.
unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, savage, opposed to what is good,
Is this how you repay the Lord, you foolish, unwise people? Is he not your father, your creator? He has made you and established you.
Such is the destiny of all who forget God; the hope of the godless perishes,
Evil men borrow, but do not repay their debt, but the godly show compassion and are generous.
Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, they exult in their shame, and they think about earthly things.
But the house of Israel is unwilling to listen to you, because they are not willing to listen to me, for the whole house of Israel is hard-headed and hard-hearted.
There are those who rebel against the light; they do not know its ways and they do not stay on its paths.
For everyone who does evil deeds hates the light and does not come to the light, so that their deeds will not be exposed.
because the outlook of the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to the law of God, nor is it able to do so.
They will maintain the outward appearance of religion but will have repudiated its power. So avoid people like these.
Hear the word of the Lord, you Israelites! For the Lord has a covenant lawsuit against the people of Israel. For there is neither faithfulness nor loyalty in the land, nor do they acknowledge God.
With flaming fire he will mete out punishment on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
The people to whom I am sending you are obstinate and hard-hearted, and you must say to them, 'This is what the sovereign Lord says.'
The righteous person hates anything false, but the wicked person acts in shameful disgrace.
They are determined to be experts at doing evil; government officials and judges take bribes, prominent men make demands, and they all do what is necessary to satisfy them.
He waits in ambush near the villages; in hidden places he kills the innocent. His eyes look for some unfortunate victim.
They kill the widow and the one residing outside his native land, and they murder the fatherless.
The way of the guilty person is devious, but as for the pure, his way is upright.
I was angry because of their sinful greed; I attacked them and angrily rejected them, yet they remained disobedient and stubborn.
Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we gain if we were to pray to him?'
All those who behave wickedly do not understand -- those who devour my people as if they were eating bread, and do not call out to God.
For they harass the one whom you discipline; they spread the news about the suffering of those whom you punish.
For he never bothered to show kindness; he harassed the oppressed and needy, and killed the disheartened.
They speak sinful words. So let them be trapped by their own pride and by the curses and lies they speak!
But when I stumbled, they rejoiced and gathered together; they gathered together to ambush me. They tore at me without stopping to rest.
Put yourselves to the test to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize regarding yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you -- unless, indeed, you fail the test!
They profess to know God but with their deeds they deny him, since they are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.
When Elijah arrived, Ahab said to him, "So, you have found me, my enemy!" Elijah replied, "I have found you, because you are committed to doing evil in the sight of the Lord.
They passed their sons and daughters through the fire, and practiced divination and omen reading. They committed themselves to doing evil in the sight of the Lord and made him angry.
For the Lord had said to Moses, "Tell the Israelites, 'You are a stiff-necked people. If I went up among you for a moment, I might destroy you. Now take off your ornaments, that I may know what I should do to you.'"
That is, I will punish the Egyptians, the Judeans, the Edomites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, and all the desert people who cut their hair short at the temples. I will do so because none of the people of those nations are really circumcised in the Lord's sight. Moreover, none of the people of Israel are circumcised when it comes to their hearts."
When a wicked person dies, his expectation perishes, and the hope of his strength perishes.
If the wicked are shown mercy, they do not learn about justice. Even in a land where right is rewarded, they act unjustly; they do not see the Lord's majesty revealed.
All have turned away, together they have become worthless; there is no one who shows kindness, not even one."
For there are many rebellious people, idle talkers, and deceivers, especially those with Jewish connections,
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to ungrateful and evil people.
With many other words he testified and exhorted them saying, "Save yourselves from this perverse generation!"