'Wickedness' in the Bible

For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.

Boastful ones will not stand before you; you hate all those who practice wickedness.

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.

Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.

Behold, he travails with wickedness,And he conceives mischief and brings forth falsehood.

His mouth is full of curses and deceit and oppression;Under his tongue is mischief and wickedness.

Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.

Do all the workers of wickedness not know,Who eat up my people as they eat bread,And do not call upon the Lord?

For I have kept the ways of the Lordand have not turned from my God to wickedness.

Preserve your servant from arrogant people; do not let them rule over me. Then I will be upright and acquitted of great wickedness.

In whose hands is wickedness, And their right hand is full of bribes.

Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert.

The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, to do good.

He deviseth wickedness up on his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good: he abhorreth not evil.

Do not fret because of evildoers; do not be envious of doers of wickedness.

And if one come to see me, he speaketh falsehood; his heart gathereth wickedness to itself: he goeth abroad, he telleth it.

They say, "Wickedness is entrenched in him. Once he is brought low, he will not rise again."

Judge me, O God, and plead my case against an unfaithful nation. From a man of deceit and wickedness rescue me,

Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

Why should I be afraid when evil days come my way, when the wickedness of those who deceive me surrounds me

Thy tongue deviseth very wickedness, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.

Have the workers of wickedness no knowledge,Who eat up My people as though they ate breadAnd have not called upon God?

Day and night they walk around on its walls, while wickedness and destruction are within it.

Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.

Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.

Cast them away because of their wickedness. In wrath, God, cast down these people!

Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

If I regard wickedness in my heart,The Lord will not hear;

They do corruptly, And they speak in the wickedness of oppression, From on high they speak.

For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him.

They pour forth words, they speak arrogantly;All who do wickedness vaunt themselves.

Who will stand up for me against evildoers?Who will take his stand for me against those who do wickedness?

Shall the throne of wickedness be united to thee, which frameth mischief into a law?

And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the LORD our God shall cut them off.

A perverse heart turneth aside from me, Wickedness I know not.

We have sinned, along with our ancestors; we have committed iniquity and wickedness.

A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

[The] upright see [it] and are glad, and all wickedness shuts its mouth.

For the mouth of wickedness, and the mouth of deceit, Against me they have opened, They have spoken with me -- A tongue of falsehood, and words of hatred!

Those who pursue wickedness draw near; they remain far from your instruction.

For the rod of wickedness resteth not On the lot of the righteous, That the righteous put not forth on iniquity their hands.

Who exchange Thee for wickedness, Lifted up to vanity are Thine enemies.

Incline not my heart to an evil thing, To do habitually actions in wickedness, With men working iniquity, Yea, I eat not of their pleasant things.

Let the righteous smite me, it shall be a kindness; And let him reprove me, it shall be as oil upon the head; Let not my head refuse it: For even in their wickedness shall my prayer continue.