Bible Verses about โwickedโ
The Bible contains 38 verses about wicked across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โBut if anyone doesn't provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.โ
โenvyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.โ
โDon't seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God's wrath. For it is written, "Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord."โ
โNow the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,โ
โidolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,โ
โfor he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn't bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.โ
โOr don't you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don't be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,โ
โBut for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."โ
โFor if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,โ
โ"'You shall not lie with a man, as with a woman. That is detestable.โ
โHe who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.โ
โYahweh 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.โ
โIt is better that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay.โ
โWhen you vow a vow to God, don't defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow.โ
โLike a muddied spring, and a polluted well, so is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.โ
โDon't allow your mouth to lead you into sin. Don't protest before the messenger that this was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?โ
โfor there will be no reward to the evil man; and the lamp of the wicked shall be snuffed out.โ
โDon't fret yourself because of evildoers; neither be envious of the wicked:โ
โFor as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool's speech with a multitude of words.โ
โBehold, that which I have seen to be good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, in which he labors under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion.โ
โFor in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, as well as in many words: but you must fear God.โ
โWhat the wicked fear, will overtake them, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.โ
โEvery man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor--this is the gift of God.โ
โDon't be rash with your mouth, and don't let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few.โ
โFor he shall not often reflect on the days of his life; because God occupies him with the joy of his heart.โ
โNo mischief shall happen to the righteous, but the wicked shall be filled with evil.โ
โGuard your steps when you go to God's house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don't know that they do evil.โ
โThe sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.โ
โHave I any pleasure in the death of the wicked? says the Lord Yahweh; and not rather that he should return from his way, and live?โ
โIf you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don't marvel at the matter: for one official is eyed by a higher one; and there are officials over them.โ
โAs he came forth from his mother's womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.โ
โMoreover the profit of the earth is for all. The king profits from the field.โ
โWhen goods increase, those who eat them are increased; and what advantage is there to its owner, except to feast on them with his eyes?โ
โThere is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.โ
โThose riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.โ
โThis also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labors for the wind?โ
โAll his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath.โ
โLet the wicked fall together into their own nets, while I pass by. A contemplation by David, when he was in the cave. A Prayer.โ
