26 Bible Verses about Pursuing Violence

And draw [the] spear and javelin to meet [those who] pursue me. Say to my soul, "I [am] your salvation."

Do not let a {slanderer} be established in the land; as for [the] man of violence, let evil hunt him quickly.

Ephraim herds [the] wind and [is] pursuing [the] east wind all day long; he multiplies deception and violence and he {makes a treaty with Assyria}, and oil is brought to Egypt.

Therefore pride is their necklace; an outfit of violence covers them.

Blessings [belong] to the head of the righteous, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.

A fountain of life [is] a mouth of righteousness, and a mouth of wickedness conceals violence.

Violence has grown to [become] a staff of wickedness; {none} from them [will remain], and {none} from their abundance nor from their wealth; and prominence [will] not [be] among them.

For they ate the bread of wickedness, and they drank the wine of violence.

[Like] cutting off feet [or] drinking violence, so [is] he who sends messages in the hand of a fool.

From the fruit of the mouth of a man, he shall eat what is good, but the desire of the treacherous, wrongdoing.

"They do not know [how] to do right," {declares Yahweh}, "those who store up violence and destruction in their citadel fortresses."

You that put off the day of disaster and bring near a reign of violence!

For their minds will devise violence, and their lips will speak mischief.

No, in [your] heart you plan injustices; in the land you weigh out the violence of your hands.

All of them come for violence, their faces pressing forward. They gather captives like the sand.

I have seen [the] wicked acting violently and spreading himself out like a luxuriant native tree.

"And [now] he has a son, a violent one, {who sheds blood} {and does any of these things}

In the abundance of your trading, they filled the midst of you [with] violence, and you sinned; and I cast you as a profane thing from the mountain of God, and I expelled you, [the] guardian cherub, from the midst of [the] stones of fire.

"And in these times many will rise [up] against the king of the south, and {the violent ones of your people} will lift themselves {to fulfill} [the] vision, but they will fall.

A woman of grace receives honor, but the ruthless gets wealth.

But from the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven is treated violently, and the violent claim it.

"The law and the prophets [were] until John; from that time [on] the kingdom of God has been proclaimed, and everyone is urgently pressed into it.

For [the] violence of Lebanon will cover you, and [the] destruction of wild animals will shatter them on account of the blood of humanity, and [the] violence [against the] land, [against] a city and all the inhabitants in it.

Woe to [him who] builds a city by bloodguilt, and [who] founds a city by wickedness!

And on that day I will punish all who leap over the threshold, who fill up the house of their master [with] violence and deceit.

Because you plundered many nations, all the remaining nations will plunder you on account of the blood of humanity and violence [against the] land, [and against] cities and all who live in them.