Wicked (People)

Compared with

God is angry with

• Psalms 5:5

  The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.

• Psalms 5:6

  Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.

• Psalms 7:11

  God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.

• Romans 9:13

  As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.

• 1 Corinthians 10:5

  But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

Spirit of God withdrawn from

• Genesis 6:3

  And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

• Hosea 4:17–19

  Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone. Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye. The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.

• Romans 1:24

  Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

• Romans 1:26

  For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

• Romans 1:28

  And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

Hate the righteous

• Matthew 5:11

  Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

• Matthew 5:12

  Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.

• Luke 6:22

  Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.

• Luke 6:23

  Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.

Worship of, offensive to God

• Psalms 50:16

  But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?

• Psalms 50:17

  Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.

• Isaiah 1:10–15

  Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? …

Present and future state of evil and righteous persons contrasted, (see below also)

Job 8, Psalms 49

Prosperity of

• Job 5:3–5

  I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation. His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them. Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.

• Job 12:6

  The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.

• Job 15:21

  A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

• Job 15:23

  He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

• Job 15:27

  Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.

• Job 15:29

  He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.

• Job 20:5

  That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?

• Job 20:22

  In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.

• Job 21:7–13

  Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them. …

• Psalms 37:1

  A Psalm of David. Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.

• Psalms 37:35

  I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.

• Psalms 37:36

  Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.

• Psalms 49:10–15

  For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others. Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names. Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish. …

• Psalms 73:3–22

  For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm. They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men. …

• Psalms 92:6

  A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.

• Psalms 92:7

  When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:

• Ecclesiastes 8:12

  Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him:

• Ecclesiastes 8:13

  But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.

• Jeremiah 12:1

  Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?

• Jeremiah 12:2

  Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root: they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from their reins.

• Habakkuk 1:3

  Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.

• Habakkuk 1:4

  Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.

• Habakkuk 1:13–17

  Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he? And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them? They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad. …

• Malachi 3:15

  And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.

Hate reproof

• 1 Kings 22:8

  And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may enquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.

• 2 Chronicles 18:7

  And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, by whom we may enquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he never prophesied good unto me, but always evil: the same is Micaiah the son of Imla. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.

God' s mercy to

• Job 33:14–30

  For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction, …

Love for

• Deuteronomy 5:29

  O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!

• Deuteronomy 32:29

  O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

• Matthew 18:11–14

  For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost. How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray? And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray. …

• John 3:16

  For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

• John 3:17

  For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

• Romans 5:8

  But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

• 1 John 3:16

  Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

• 1 John 4:9

  In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

• 1 John 4:10

  Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

Dreading God

• Job 18:11

  Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.

Eliphaz' s exhortation to

• Job 22:21–30

  Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee. Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart. If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles. …

Temporal punishment of

• Job 27:13–23

  This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty. If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread. Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep. …

• Job 15:20–35

  The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor. A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him. He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword. …

• Job 18:5–21

  Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine. The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him. The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down. …

• Job 20:5–29

  That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds; Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he? …

• Job 21:7–33

  Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them. …

• Job 24:2–24

  Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof. They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge. They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together. …

• Jeremiah 5:25

  Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.

• Ezekiel 11:10

  Ye shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

• Ezekiel 12:19

  And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.

• Ezekiel 12:20

  And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

• Zechariah 14:17–19

  And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain. And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.

False hope of

• Job 8:13–18

  So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish: Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web. He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure. …

Gospel invitation to, illustrated by the parables of

Warned

• Jeremiah 7:13–15

  And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the LORD, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not; Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh. And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.

• Jeremiah 7:23–25

  But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you. But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward. Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:

• Jeremiah 25:4–6

  And the LORD hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets, rising early and sending them; but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear. They said, Turn ye again now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD hath given unto you and to your fathers for ever and ever: And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.

• Jeremiah 26:2–7

  Thus saith the LORD; Stand in the court of the LORD'S house, and speak unto all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in the LORD'S house, all the words that I command thee to speak unto them; diminish not a word: If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings. And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; If ye will not hearken to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you, …

• Jeremiah 26:12

  Then spake Jeremiah unto all the princes and to all the people, saying, The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that ye have heard.

• Jeremiah 26:13

  Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you.

• Jeremiah 29:17–19

  Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil. And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them: Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the LORD, which I sent unto them by my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but ye would not hear, saith the LORD.

• Ezekiel 33:8

  When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.

• Daniel 4:4–27

  I Nebuchadnezzar was at rest in mine house, and flourishing in my palace: I saw a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me. Therefore made I a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, that they might make known unto me the interpretation of the dream. …

• Daniel 5:4–29

  They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone. In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another. …

• Zephaniah 2:1

  Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired;

• Zephaniah 2:2

  Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you, before the day of the LORD'S anger come upon you.

• Luke 3:7–9

  Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham. And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

• 1 Corinthians 10:11

  Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

• Jude 1:4–7

  For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not. And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. …

• Revelation 3:1–3

  And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead. Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God. Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.

• Revelation 3:16–19

  So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. …

Terrors of, at the judgment

• Revelation 1:7

  Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.

Death of

• Psalms 49:14

  Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.

• Psalms 73:4

  For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.

Contrasted with righteous people

• Psalms 1:1–6

  Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. …

• Psalms 11:5

  The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.

• Psalms 17:14

  From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

• Psalms 17:15

  As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.

• Psalms 32:10

  Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall compass him about.

• Psalms 37:17–22

  For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD upholdeth the righteous. The LORD knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be for ever. They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied. …

• Psalms 37:37

  Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.

• Psalms 37:38

  But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.

• Psalms 68:6

  God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.

• Psalms 73:1–28

  A Psalm of Asaph. Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart. But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped. For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. …

• Psalms 75:10

  All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.

• Psalms 91:7

  A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.

• Psalms 91:8

  Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.

• Psalms 107:33–38

  He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground; A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein. He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings. …

• Psalms 125:5

  As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.

• Proverbs 10:6

  Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

• Proverbs 10:9

  He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.

• Proverbs 10:21

  The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.

• Proverbs 10:23–25

  It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom. The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted. As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.

• Proverbs 10:28–30

  The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish. The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity. The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.

• Proverbs 10:32

  The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness.

• Proverbs 11:3

  The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.

• Proverbs 11:5

  The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

• Proverbs 11:6

  The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.

• Proverbs 11:8

  The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked cometh in his stead.

• Proverbs 11:10

  When it goeth well with the righteous, the city rejoiceth: and when the wicked perish, there is shouting.

• Proverbs 11:11

  By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.

• Proverbs 11:18–21

  The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward. As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death. They that are of a froward heart are abomination to the LORD: but such as are upright in their way are his delight. …

• Proverbs 11:23

  The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.

• Proverbs 11:31

  Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.

• Proverbs 12:3

  A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.

• Proverbs 12:5–7

  The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit. The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.

• Proverbs 12:13

  The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.

• Proverbs 12:21

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

• Proverbs 12:26

  The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.

• Proverbs 13:6

  Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.

• Proverbs 13:13

  Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.

• Proverbs 13:17

  A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.

• Proverbs 13:21

  Evil pursueth sinners: but to the righteous good shall be repayed.

• Proverbs 14:19

  The evil bow before the good; and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.

• Proverbs 14:22

  Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.

• Proverbs 14:32

  The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.

• Proverbs 15:6

  In the house of the righteous is much treasure: but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble.

• Proverbs 21:18

  The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.

• Proverbs 21:26

  He coveteth greedily all the day long: but the righteous giveth and spareth not.

• Proverbs 22:5

  Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.

• Proverbs 28:1

  The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.

• Proverbs 28:4

  They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.

• Proverbs 28:5

  Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all things.

• Proverbs 28:13

  He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.

• Proverbs 28:14

  Happy is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief.

• Proverbs 28:18

  Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.

• Isaiah 32:1–8

  Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment. And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken. …

• Isaiah 65:13

  Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed:

• Isaiah 65:14

  Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit.

• Malachi 3:18

  Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.

• Romans 2:7–9

  To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;

• Ephesians 2:12–14

  That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;

• Philippians 2:15

  That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;

• 1 Thessalonians 5:5–8

  Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. …

• Titus 1:15

  Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.

• 1 John 1:6

  If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:

• 1 John 1:7

  But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

• 1 John 3:3–17

  And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure. Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin. …

Described

• Genesis 13:13

  But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.

• Genesis 18:20

  And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;

• Leviticus 18:25

  And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.

• Deuteronomy 9:13

  Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:

• Deuteronomy 9:24

  Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you.

• Deuteronomy 32:10

  He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.

• Deuteronomy 32:32

  For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:

• Deuteronomy 32:33

  Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.

• 1 Samuel 24:13

  As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.

• 1 Kings 21:20

  And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the LORD.

• 2 Chronicles 28:10

  And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto you: but are there not with you, even with you, sins against the LORD your God?

• 2 Chronicles 28:22

  And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the LORD: this is that king Ahaz.

• Ezra 9:11

  Which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets, saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land with the filthiness of the people of the lands, with their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their uncleanness.

• Job 14:4

  Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

• Job 15:16

  How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?

• Job 15:20–35

  The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor. A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him. He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword. …

• Job 20:12

  Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;

• Job 20:13

  Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:

• Job 22:5

  Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?

• Job 24:2–24

  Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof. They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge. They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together. …

• Psalms 5:9

  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.

• Psalms 7:14–16

  Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood. He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made. His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.

• Psalms 10:4–11

  The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts. His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them. He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity. …

• Psalms 36:1–4

  To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD. The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes. For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful. The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good. …

• Psalms 37:12

  The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.

• Psalms 49:20

  Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.

• Psalms 50:17–20

  Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee. When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers. Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit. …

Psalms 52:1–4, Psalms 53:1–5, Psalms 58:3–5, Psalms 59:6, Psalms 59:7, Psalms 64:3–6, Psalms 73:4–12, Psalms 94:3–8, Psalms 119:155, Proverbs 1:29, Proverbs 1:30, Proverbs 2:12–19, Proverbs 4:16, Proverbs 6:12–15, Proverbs 10:23, Proverbs 13:19, Proverbs 14:9, Proverbs 15:9, Proverbs 15:10, Proverbs 27:22, Proverbs 28:4, Ecclesiastes 3:18, Ecclesiastes 8:11, Isaiah 1:4–6, Isaiah 3:9, Isaiah 5:11, Isaiah 5:12, Isaiah 5:18–25, Isaiah 26:10, Isaiah 26:11, Isaiah 30:1, Isaiah 30:9–11, Isaiah 32:6, Isaiah 32:7, Isaiah 57:20, Isaiah 57:21, Isaiah 59:2–8, Isaiah 63:19, Jeremiah 2:22–25, Jeremiah 3:5, Jeremiah 4:22, Jeremiah 5:4, Jeremiah 5:5, Jeremiah 5:26–28, Jeremiah 6:7, Jeremiah 6:15, Jeremiah 8:6, Jeremiah 8:12, Jeremiah 9:3–6, Jeremiah 11:8, Jeremiah 11:15, Jeremiah 13:10, Jeremiah 14:10, Jeremiah 17:1, Jeremiah 30:12–15, Ezekiel 3:7, Ezekiel 11:12, Ezekiel 16:47, Ezekiel 20:16, Hosea 4:8, Hosea 7:3, Hosea 7:9, Hosea 9:10, Hosea 13:12, Amos 5:10, Micah 3:1, Micah 3:2, Micah 7:2–4, Zephaniah 3:5, Zephaniah 3:7, Haggai 2:14, Matthew 4:16, Matthew 6:23, Matthew 18:11, Mark 4:11, Luke 1:79, Luke 19:10, John 3:18–20, John 5:42, John 8:34, John 8:44, Acts 8:21, Acts 8:23, Acts 13:10, Romans 1:20–32, Romans 2:8, Romans 3:10–18, Romans 8:5, Romans 8:7, Romans 8:8, Romans 9:8, Ephesians 2:1–3, Ephesians 2:12, Ephesians 4:17–19, Ephesians 5:11, Ephesians 5:12, Philippians 2:15, Colossians 1:21, 1 Thessalonians 5:7, 2 Thessalonians 1:8, 1 Timothy 1:9, 1 Timothy 1:10, 2 Timothy 3:2–13, Titus 1:15, Titus 1:16, Titus 3:3, 2 Peter 2:10, 2 Peter 2:12–19, 1 John 3:8, 1 John 3:10, 1 John 3:14, 1 John 3:15, Jude 1:12, Jude 1:13, Revelation 3:17, Revelation 3:18

Prayer of

Deuteronomy 1:45, Deuteronomy 3:26, 2 Samuel 22:42, Job 27:9, Job 35:12, Job 35:13, Psalms 18:41, Psalms 66:18, Proverbs 1:24–28, Proverbs 15:8, Proverbs 15:29, Proverbs 21:13, Proverbs 21:27, Proverbs 28:9, Isaiah 1:15, Isaiah 45:19, Isaiah 59:2, Jeremiah 11:11, Jeremiah 14:12, Jeremiah 15:1, Jeremiah 18:17, Lamentations 3:8, Lamentations 3:44, Ezekiel 8:18, Ezekiel 20:3, Ezekiel 20:31, Hosea 5:6, Micah 3:4, Zechariah 7:12, Zechariah 7:13, Malachi 1:9, Malachi 2:11–13, John 9:31, James 1:6, James 1:7, James 4:3, 1 Peter 3:7

Punishment of

Genesis 2:17, Genesis 3:16–19, Genesis 4:7, Genesis 6:3, Genesis 6:7, Genesis 6:12, Genesis 6:13, Exodus 20:5, Exodus 32:33–35, Exodus 34:7, Leviticus 26:14, Leviticus 26:16–39, Numbers 15:31, Numbers 32:23, Deuteronomy 7:9, Deuteronomy 7:10, Deuteronomy 11:26, Deuteronomy 11:28, Deuteronomy 28:15–68, Deuteronomy 30:15, Deuteronomy 30:19, Deuteronomy 31:29, 1 Samuel 3:11–14, 1 Samuel 12:25, 2 Samuel 3:39, 2 Samuel 7:14, 2 Samuel 22:27, 2 Samuel 22:28, 2 Samuel 23:6, 2 Samuel 23:7, 1 Kings 21:20, 1 Kings 21:21, 1 Chronicles 10:13, 1 Chronicles 10:14, 1 Chronicles 15:13, 1 Chronicles 28:9, 2 Chronicles 15:2, Job 4:8, Job 4:9, Job 5:3, Job 5:14, Job 8:20, Job 8:22, Job 10:14, Job 10:15, Job 11:20, Job 15:20–24, Job 15:28–30, Job 18:5–21, Job 19:29, Job 20:5–29, Job 21:7–33, Job 27:8–23, Job 31:3, Job 34:22, Job 36:12, Job 36:17, Psalms 1:4–6, Psalms 2:4, Psalms 2:5, Psalms 2:9, Psalms 3:7, Psalms 5:5, Psalms 7:11–13, Psalms 9:5, Psalms 9:17, Psalms 10:15, Psalms 11:6, Psalms 18:14, Psalms 18:26, Psalms 18:27, Psalms 21:9, Psalms 21:10, Psalms 28:4, Psalms 28:5, Psalms 32:10, Psalms 34:16, Psalms 34:21, Psalms 36:12, Psalms 37:1, Psalms 37:2, Psalms 37:9, Psalms 37:10, Psalms 37:13–22, Psalms 37:34–38, Psalms 39:11, Psalms 50:22, Psalms 52:5, Psalms 55:19, Psalms 55:23, Psalms 56:7, Psalms 58:6–9, Psalms 59:5, Psalms 59:8, Psalms 62:3, Psalms 64:7, Psalms 64:8, Psalms 68:1, Psalms 68:2, Psalms 68:6, Psalms 68:21, Psalms 73:2–21, Psalms 73:27, Psalms 75:8, Psalms 75:10, Psalms 78:1–67, Psalms 89:10, Psalms 89:31, Psalms 89:32, Psalms 91:8, Psalms 92:7, Psalms 92:9, Psalms 94:13, Psalms 94:23, Psalms 97:3, Psalms 101:8, Psalms 104:35, Psalms 106:18, Psalms 106:43, Psalms 107:17, Psalms 107:34, Psalms 109:6–19, Psalms 119:21, Psalms 119:118, Psalms 119:119, Psalms 119:155, Psalms 129:4, Psalms 139:19, Psalms 145:20, Psalms 146:9, Psalms 147:6, Proverbs 2:22, Proverbs 3:33, Proverbs 6:12–15, Proverbs 10:3, Proverbs 10:6–8, Proverbs 10:24, Proverbs 10:25, Proverbs 10:27–31, Proverbs 11:3, Proverbs 11:5–8, Proverbs 11:19, Proverbs 11:21, Proverbs 11:23, Proverbs 11:31, Proverbs 12:2, Proverbs 12:3, Proverbs 12:7, Proverbs 13:2, Proverbs 13:5, Proverbs 13:6, Proverbs 13:9, Proverbs 13:21, Proverbs 13:25, Proverbs 14:12, Proverbs 14:19, Proverbs 14:32, Proverbs 16:4, Proverbs 16:5, Proverbs 16:25, Proverbs 18:3, Proverbs 19:16, Proverbs 21:12, Proverbs 21:15, Proverbs 21:16, Proverbs 22:5, Proverbs 22:23, Proverbs 24:20, Proverbs 24:22, Proverbs 26:10, Proverbs 28:14, Proverbs 28:18, Proverbs 29:1, Proverbs 29:16, Ecclesiastes 2:26, Ecclesiastes 7:17, Ecclesiastes 8:12, Ecclesiastes 8:13, Isaiah 2:19, Isaiah 3:11, Isaiah 5:11–14, Isaiah 5:24, Isaiah 9:18, Isaiah 10:3, Isaiah 11:4, Isaiah 13:8, Isaiah 13:9, Isaiah 13:11, Isaiah 24:17, Isaiah 24:18, Isaiah 26:21, Isaiah 28:18–22, Isaiah 33:11, Isaiah 33:12, Isaiah 33:14, Isaiah 40:2, Isaiah 48:22, Isaiah 50:11, Isaiah 57:20, Isaiah 57:21, Isaiah 64:5–7, Isaiah 65:12–14, Jeremiah 8:12–14, Jeremiah 8:20–22, Jeremiah 9:1, Jeremiah 13:14, Jeremiah 13:16, Jeremiah 13:22, Jeremiah 14:10, Jeremiah 14:12, Jeremiah 16:18, Jeremiah 21:14, Jeremiah 25:31, Jeremiah 36:31, Jeremiah 44:23, Jeremiah 49:12, Lamentations 3:3, Lamentations 4:22, Lamentations 5:16, Lamentations 5:17, Ezekiel 3:18–20, Ezekiel 5:4, Ezekiel 5:8–17, Ezekiel 7:4–6, Ezekiel 9:5–7, Ezekiel 9:10, Ezekiel 11:21, Ezekiel 18:1–32, Ezekiel 20:8, Ezekiel 22:14, Ezekiel 22:20, Ezekiel 22:21, Ezekiel 22:31, Ezekiel 24:13, Ezekiel 24:14, Ezekiel 25:7, Ezekiel 33:7–20, Daniel 12:2, Hosea 2:9–13, Hosea 5:4–6, Hosea 5:9, Hosea 7:12, Hosea 7:13, Hosea 9:7, Hosea 9:9, Hosea 9:15, Hosea 10:8, Hosea 12:2, Hosea 12:14, Hosea 13:1, Hosea 13:3, Hosea 14:9, Joel 2:1, Joel 2:2, Joel 3:13–16, Amos 3:2, Amos 5:18–20, Amos 8:14, Amos 9:1–5, Amos 9:10, Jonah 3:9, Micah 2:3, Micah 6:13, Nahum 1:2, Nahum 1:8–10, Zephaniah 1:12–18, Zechariah 5:2–4, Malachi 3:17, Malachi 3:18, Malachi 4:1, Matthew 3:7, Matthew 3:10, Matthew 3:12, Matthew 5:19–30, Matthew 7:13, Matthew 7:19, Matthew 7:23, Matthew 7:26, Matthew 7:27, Matthew 8:12, Matthew 10:28, Matthew 10:33, Matthew 11:23, Matthew 12:34, Matthew 13:12–15, Matthew 13:30, Matthew 13:38–42, Matthew 13:49, Matthew 13:50, Matthew 15:13, Matthew 16:26, Matthew 18:7–9, Matthew 18:34, Matthew 18:35, Matthew 21:19, Matthew 21:41, Matthew 21:44, Matthew 22:13, Matthew 23:14, Matthew 23:33, Matthew 24:50, Matthew 24:51, Matthew 25:30, Matthew 25:32, Matthew 25:33, Matthew 25:41, Matthew 25:46, Matthew 26:24, Mark 4:12, Mark 4:25, Mark 8:36, Mark 8:38, Mark 9:43, Mark 11:26, Mark 12:1–9, Mark 12:40, Mark 14:21, Mark 16:16, Luke 3:7, Luke 3:17, Luke 6:49, Luke 8:18, Luke 9:24–26, Luke 12:4, Luke 12:5, Luke 12:46, Luke 12:47, Luke 13:3, Luke 13:5–7, Luke 13:9, Luke 13:24, Luke 13:27, Luke 13:28, Luke 16:22–28, Luke 17:1, Luke 17:2, Luke 19:26, Luke 19:27, Luke 20:18, Luke 22:22, Luke 23:30, Luke 23:31, John 3:15, John 3:16, John 3:18, John 3:36, John 5:14, John 5:29, John 7:34, John 8:21, John 12:40, John 15:2, John 17:12, Acts 1:18, Acts 1:25, Acts 3:23, Romans 1:18, Romans 2:5, Romans 2:8, Romans 5:12, Romans 5:21, Romans 6:16, Romans 6:21, Romans 8:2, Romans 8:6, Romans 8:7, Romans 8:13, Romans 9:22, Romans 11:22, Romans 14:23, 1 Corinthians 3:17, 1 Corinthians 5:5, 1 Corinthians 5:13, 1 Corinthians 6:9, 1 Corinthians 6:10, 1 Corinthians 9:27, 1 Corinthians 10:5–11, 1 Corinthians 15:21, 1 Corinthians 15:22, 2 Corinthians 7:10, Galatians 3:10, Galatians 5:19, Galatians 5:20, Galatians 6:8, Ephesians 5:5, Ephesians 5:6, Philippians 3:18, Philippians 3:19, Colossians 3:25, 1 Thessalonians 1:10, 1 Thessalonians 5:3, 2 Thessalonians 1:5–9, 2 Thessalonians 2:8–10, 1 Timothy 1:20, 1 Timothy 5:24, 2 Timothy 2:12, 2 Timothy 2:13, Hebrews 2:2, Hebrews 2:3, Hebrews 6:8, Hebrews 10:27–31, James 1:14, James 1:15, James 5:1–3, James 5:20, 1 Peter 3:12, 1 Peter 4:17, 1 Peter 4:18, 2 Peter 2:3–9, 2 Peter 2:12–17, 1 John 3:14, 1 John 3:15, Jude 1:5–7, Jude 1:11–15, Revelation 2:22, Revelation 2:23, Revelation 3:3, Revelation 6:15–17, Revelation 9:4–6, Revelation 9:15, Revelation 9:18, Revelation 11:18, Revelation 14:9–11, Revelation 16:2–21, Revelation 18:5, Revelation 19:15, Revelation 19:17–21, Revelation 20:10, Revelation 20:15, Revelation 21:8, Revelation 21:27, Revelation 22:19