Bible Verses about “wicked”

“But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.”

“Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told [you] in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”

“Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but [rather] give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance [is] mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.”

“Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,”

“Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,”

“For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to [execute] wrath upon him that doeth evil.”

“¶ Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,”

“‹But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.›”

“For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,”

“Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it [is] abomination.”

“He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this [is] also vanity.”

“And GOD saw that the wickedness of man [was] great in the earth, and [that] every imagination of the thoughts of his heart [was] only evil continually.”

“Better [is it] that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.”

“¶ When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for [he hath] no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.”

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

“Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it [was] an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?”

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

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

“For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice [is known] by multitude of words.”

“¶ Behold [that] which I have seen: [it is] good and comely [for one] to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it [is] his portion.”

“For in the multitude of dreams and many words [there are] also [divers] vanities: but fear thou God.”

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

“Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this [is] the gift of God.”

“Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter [any] thing before God: for God [is] in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.”

“For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth [him] in the joy of his heart.”

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

“¶ Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.”

“The sleep of a labouring man [is] sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.”

“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?”

“If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for [he that is] higher than the highest regardeth; and [there be] higher than they.”

“As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.”

“¶ Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king [himself] is served by the field.”

“When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good [is there] to the owners thereof, saving the beholding [of them] with their eyes?”

“There is a sore evil [which] I have seen under the sun, [namely], riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.”

“But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and [there is] nothing in his hand.”

“And this also [is] a sore evil, [that] in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?”

“All his days also he eateth in darkness, and [he hath] much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.”

“Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal escape.”