WICKED (PEOPLE)

Passages on this topic · 300

• Genesis 6:3

  Yahweh said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred twenty years.”

• Deuteronomy 5:29

  Oh that there were such a 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 forever!

• Deuteronomy 32:29

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

• 1 Kings 22:8

  The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.” Jehoshaphat said, “Don’t let the king say so.”

• 2 Kings 19:26

  Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like grain blasted before it has grown up.

• 2 Chronicles 18:7

  The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh; but I hate him, for he never prophesies good concerning me, but always evil. He is Micaiah the son of Imla.” Jehoshaphat said, “Don’t let the king say so.”

• Job 1:13

  It fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

• Job 5:3

  I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

• Job 5:4

  His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,

• Job 5:5

  whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.

• Job 8:13

  So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man shall perish,

• Job 8:14

  Whose confidence shall break apart, Whose trust is a spider’s web.

• Job 8:15

  He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand. He shall cling to it, but it shall not endure.

• Job 8:16

  He is green before the sun. His shoots go out along his garden.

• Job 8:17

  His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. He sees the place of stones.

• Job 8:18

  If he is destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, ‘I have not seen you.’

• Job 11:12

  An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey’s colt.

• Job 12:6

  The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their God in their hands.

• Job 15:20

  the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

• Job 15:21

  A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer shall come on him.

• Job 15:22

  He doesn’t believe that he shall return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword.

• Job 15:23

  He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

• Job 15:24

  Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

• Job 15:25

  Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty;

• Job 15:26

  he runs at him with a stiff neck, with the thick shields of his bucklers;

• Job 15:27

  because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat on his thighs.

• Job 15:28

  He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.

• Job 15:29

  He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.

• Job 15:30

  He shall not depart out of darkness. The flame shall dry up his branches. By the breath of God’s mouth shall he go away.

• Job 15:31

  Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness shall be his reward.

• Job 15:32

  It shall be accomplished before his time. His branch shall not be green.

• Job 15:33

  He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive tree.

• Job 15:34

  For the company of the godless shall be barren, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.

• Job 15:35

  They conceive mischief, and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.”

• Job 18:5

  “Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, The spark of his fire shall not shine.

• Job 18:6

  The light shall be dark in his tent. His lamp above him shall be put out.

• Job 18:7

  The steps of his strength shall be shortened. His own counsel shall cast him down.

• Job 18:8

  For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.

• Job 18:9

  A snare will take him by the heel. A trap will catch him.

• Job 18:10

  A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him on the path.

• Job 18:11

  Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall chase him at his heels.

• Job 18:12

  His strength shall be famished. Calamity shall be ready at his side.

• Job 18:13

  The members of his body shall be devoured. The firstborn of death shall devour his members.

• Job 18:14

  He shall be rooted out of the security of his tent. He shall be brought to the king of terrors.

• Job 18:15

  There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulfur shall be scattered on his habitation.

• Job 18:16

  His roots shall be dried up beneath. Above shall his branch be cut off.

• Job 18:17

  His memory shall perish from the earth. He shall have no name in the street.

• Job 18:18

  He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

• Job 18:19

  He shall have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining where he lived.

• Job 18:20

  Those who come after shall be astonished at his day, as those who went before were frightened.

• Job 18:21

  Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn’t know God.”

• Job 20:5

  that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?

• Job 20:6

  Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds,

• Job 20:7

  yet he shall perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him shall say, ‘Where is he?’

• Job 20:8

  He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found. Yes, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night.

• Job 20:9

  The eye which saw him shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more see him.

• Job 20:10

  His children shall seek the favor of the poor. His hands shall give back his wealth.

• Job 20:11

  His bones are full of his youth, but youth shall lie down with him in the dust.

• Job 20:12

  “Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,

• Job 20:13

  though he spare it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth;

• Job 20:14

  yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him.

• Job 20:15

  He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.

• Job 20:16

  He shall suck cobra venom. The viper’s tongue shall kill him.

• Job 20:17

  He shall not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.

• Job 20:18

  That for which he labored he shall restore, and shall not swallow it down. According to the substance that he has gotten, he shall not rejoice.

• Job 20:19

  For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.

• Job 20:20

  “Because he knew no quietness within him, he shall not save anything of that in which he delights.

• Job 20:21

  There was nothing left that he didn’t devour, therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

• Job 20:22

  In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress shall overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery shall come on him.

• Job 20:23

  When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is eating.

• Job 20:24

  He shall flee from the iron weapon. The bronze arrow shall strike him through.

• Job 20:25

  He draws it out, and it comes out of his body. Yes, the glittering point comes out of his liver. Terrors are on him.

• Job 20:26

  All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire shall devour him. It shall consume that which is left in his tent.

• Job 20:27

  The heavens shall reveal his iniquity. The earth shall rise up against him.

• Job 20:28

  The increase of his house shall depart. They shall rush away in the day of his wrath.

• Job 20:29

  This is the portion of a wicked man from God, the heritage appointed to him by God.”

• Job 21:7

  “Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?

• Job 21:8

  Their child is established with them in their sight, their offspring before their eyes.

• Job 21:9

  Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.

• Job 21:10

  Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don’t miscarry.

• Job 21:11

  They send out their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.

• Job 21:12

  They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.

• Job 21:13

  They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.

• Job 21:14

  They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.

• Job 21:15

  What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’

• Job 21:16

  Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

• Job 21:17

  “How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?

• Job 21:18

  How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?

• Job 21:19

  You say, ‘God lays up his iniquity for his children.’ Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.

• Job 21:20

  Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

• Job 21:21

  For what does he care for his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?

• Job 21:22

  “Shall any teach God knowledge, since he judges those who are high?

• Job 21:23

  One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.

• Job 21:24

  His pails are full of milk. The marrow of his bones is moistened.

• Job 21:25

  Another dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good.

• Job 21:26

  They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.

• Job 21:27

  “Behold, I know your thoughts, the devices with which you would wrong me.

• Job 21:28

  For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’

• Job 21:29

  Haven’t you asked wayfaring men? Don’t you know their evidences,

• Job 21:30

  that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led out to the day of wrath?

• Job 21:31

  Who shall declare his way to his face? Who shall repay him what he has done?

• Job 21:32

  Yet he will be borne to the grave. Men shall keep watch over the tomb.

• Job 21:33

  The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. All men shall draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.

• Job 22:21

  “Acquaint yourself with him, now, and be at peace. Thereby good shall come to you.

• Job 22:22

  Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.

• Job 22:23

  If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.

• Job 22:24

  Lay your treasure in the dust, the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.

• Job 22:25

  The Almighty will be your treasure, and precious silver to you.

• Job 22:26

  For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and shall lift up your face to God.

• Job 22:27

  You shall make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You shall pay your vows.

• Job 22:28

  You shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established to you. Light shall shine on your ways.

• Job 22:29

  When they cast down, you shall say, ‘be lifted up.’ He will save the humble person.

• Job 22:30

  He will even deliver him who is not innocent. Yes, he shall be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.”

• Job 24:2

  There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.

• Job 24:3

  They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

• Job 24:4

  They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.

• Job 24:5

  Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go out to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.

• Job 24:6

  They cut their food in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked.

• Job 24:7

  They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.

• Job 24:8

  They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.

• Job 24:9

  There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

• Job 24:10

  So that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.

• Job 24:11

  They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst.

• Job 24:12

  From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, yet God doesn’t regard the folly.

• Job 24:13

  “These are of those who rebel against the light. They don’t know its ways, nor stay in its paths.

• Job 24:14

  The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.

• Job 24:15

  The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye shall see me.’ He disguises his face.

• Job 24:16

  In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don’t know the light.

• Job 24:17

  For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

• Job 24:18

  “They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth. They don’t turn into the way of the vineyards.

• Job 24:19

  Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does Sheol those who have sinned.

• Job 24:20

  The womb shall forget him. The worm shall feed sweetly on him. He shall be no more remembered. Unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.

• Job 24:21

  He devours the barren who don’t bear. He shows no kindness to the widow.

• Job 24:22

  Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has no assurance of life.

• Job 24:23

  God gives them security, and they rest in it. His eyes are on their ways.

• Job 24:24

  They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.

• Job 27:13

  “This is the portion of a wicked man with God, the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.

• Job 27:14

  If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

• Job 27:15

  Those who remain of him shall be buried in death. His widows shall make no lamentation.

• Job 27:16

  Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;

• Job 27:17

  he may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

• Job 27:18

  He builds his house as the moth, as a booth which the watchman makes.

• Job 27:19

  He lies down rich, but he shall not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not.

• Job 27:20

  Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in the night.

• Job 27:21

  The east wind carries him away, and he departs. It sweeps him out of his place.

• Job 27:22

  For it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away from his hand.

• Job 27:23

  Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.

• Job 33:14

  For God speaks once, yes twice, though man pays no attention.

• Job 33:15

  In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, in slumbering on the bed;

• Job 33:16

  Then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction,

• Job 33:17

  That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.

• Job 33:18

  He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.

• Job 33:19

  He is chastened also with pain on his bed, with continual strife in his bones;

• Job 33:20

  So that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food.

• Job 33:21

  His flesh is so consumed away, that it can’t be seen. His bones that were not seen stick out.

• Job 33:22

  Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.

• Job 33:23

  “If there is beside him an angel, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man what is right for him;

• Job 33:24

  then God is gracious to him, and says, ‘Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.’

• Job 33:25

  His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s. He returns to the days of his youth.

• Job 33:26

  He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, so that he sees his face with joy. He restores to man his righteousness.

• Job 33:27

  He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me.

• Job 33:28

  He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life shall see the light.’

• Job 33:29

  “Behold, God does all these things, twice, yes three times, with a man,

• Job 33:30

  to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living.

• Psalms 1:4

  The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.

• Psalms 5:5

  The arrogant shall not stand in your sight. You hate all workers of iniquity.

• Psalms 5:6

  You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

• Psalms 7:11

  God is a righteous judge, yes, a God who has indignation every day.

• Psalms 17:12

  He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

• Psalms 21:9

  You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them.

• Psalms 22:12

  Many bulls have surrounded me. Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.

• Psalms 37:1

  By David. Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.

• Psalms 37:2

  For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither like the green herb.

• Psalms 37:35

  I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.

• Psalms 37:36

  But he passed away, and behold, he was not. Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.

• Psalms 49:10

  For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.

• Psalms 49:11

  Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever, and their dwelling places to all generations. They name their lands after themselves.

• Psalms 49:12

  But man, despite his riches, doesn’t endure. He is like the animals that perish.

• Psalms 49:13

  This is the destiny of those who are foolish, and of those who approve their sayings. Selah.

• Psalms 49:14

  They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.

• Psalms 49:15

  But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. Selah.

• Psalms 50:16

  But to the wicked God says, “What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,

• Psalms 50:17

  since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?

• Psalms 58:4

  Their poison is like the poison of a snake; like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,

• Psalms 68:2

  As smoke is driven away, so drive them away. As wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

• Psalms 73:3

  For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

• Psalms 73:4

  For there are no struggles in their death, but their strength is firm.

• Psalms 73:5

  They are free from burdens of men, neither are they plagued like other men.

• Psalms 73:6

  Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.

• Psalms 73:7

  Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.

• Psalms 73:8

  They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.

• Psalms 73:9

  They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.

• Psalms 73:10

  Therefore their people return to them, and they drink up waters of abundance.

• Psalms 73:11

  They say, “How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?”

• Psalms 73:12

  Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.

• Psalms 73:13

  Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence,

• Psalms 73:14

  For all day long I have been plagued, and punished every morning.

• Psalms 73:15

  If I had said, “I will speak thus”; behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.

• Psalms 73:16

  When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me;

• Psalms 73:17

  Until I entered God’s sanctuary, and considered their latter end.

• Psalms 73:18

  Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.

• Psalms 73:19

  How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.

• Psalms 73:20

  As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.

• Psalms 73:21

  For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart.

• Psalms 73:22

  I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.

• Psalms 83:13

  My God, make them like tumbleweed; like chaff before the wind.

• Psalms 92:6

  A senseless man doesn’t know, neither does a fool understand this:

• Psalms 92:7

  though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

• Psalms 118:12

  They surrounded me like bees. They are quenched like the burning thorns. In Yahweh’s name I cut them off.

• Psalms 119:119

  You put away all the wicked of the earth like dross. Therefore I love your testimonies.

• Proverbs 1:13

  We’ll find all valuable wealth. We’ll fill our houses with plunder.

• Proverbs 10:25

  When the whirlwind passes, the wicked is no more; but the righteous stand firm forever.

• Proverbs 26:11

  As a dog that returns to his vomit, so is a fool who repeats his folly.

• Proverbs 26:23

  Like silver dross on an earthen vessel are the lips of a fervent one with an evil heart.

• Ecclesiastes 8:12

  Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.

• Ecclesiastes 8:13

  But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow; because he doesn’t fear God.

• Isaiah 1:10

  Hear Yahweh’s word, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah!

• Isaiah 1:11

  “What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says Yahweh. “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed animals. I don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.

• Isaiah 1:12

  When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts?

• Isaiah 1:13

  Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me; new moons, Sabbaths, and convocations: I can’t bear with evil assemblies.

• Isaiah 1:14

  My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them.

• Isaiah 1:15

  When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

• Isaiah 1:30

  For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water.

• Isaiah 9:19

  Through Yahweh of Armies’ wrath, the land is burned up; and the people are the fuel for the fire. No one spares his brother.

• Isaiah 14:19

  But you are cast away from your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; like a dead body trodden under foot.

• Isaiah 50:9

  Behold, the Lord Yahweh will help me! Who is he who will condemn me? Behold, they will all grow old like a garment. The moths will eat them up.

• Isaiah 51:8

  For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation to all generations.”

• Isaiah 55:13

  Instead of the thorn the cypress tree will come up; and instead of the brier the myrtle tree will come up: and it will make a name for Yahweh, for an everlasting sign that will not be cut off.”

• Isaiah 57:20

  But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can’t rest, and its waters cast up mire and mud.

• Jeremiah 5:25

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

• Jeremiah 6:28

  They are all grievous rebels, going about with slanders; they are brass and iron: they all of them deal corruptly.

• Jeremiah 6:30

  Men will call them rejected silver, because Yahweh has rejected them.”

• Jeremiah 8:6

  I listened and heard, but they didn’t say what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, saying, “What have I done?” Everyone turns to his course, as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle.

• Jeremiah 12:1

  You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously?

• Jeremiah 12:2

  You have planted them, yes, they have taken root; they grow, yes, they produce fruit. You are near in their mouth, and far from their heart.

• Jeremiah 17:6

  For he shall be like a bush in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.

• Jeremiah 24:8

  “‘As the bad figs, which can’t be eaten, they are so bad,’ surely Yahweh says, ‘So I will give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the remnant of Jerusalem, who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt.

• Ezekiel 2:6

  You, son of man, don’t be afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you, and you do dwell among scorpions. Don’t be afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.

• Ezekiel 11:10

  You will fall by the sword. I will judge you in the border of Israel; and you will know that I am Yahweh.

• Ezekiel 12:19

  Tell the people of the land, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the land of Israel: “They will eat their bread with fearfulness, and drink their water in dismay, that her land may be desolate, and all that is therein, because of the violence of all those who dwell therein.

• Ezekiel 12:20

  The cities that are inhabited will be laid waste, and the land will be a desolation; then you will know that I am Yahweh.”’”

• Ezekiel 22:18

  “Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me. All of them are brass, tin, iron, and lead in the middle of the furnace. They are the dross of silver.

• Ezekiel 22:19

  Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘Because you have all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the middle of Jerusalem.

• Hosea 4:17

  Ephraim is joined to idols. Leave him alone!

• Hosea 4:18

  Their drink has become sour. They play the prostitute continually. Her rulers dearly love their shameful way.

• Hosea 4:19

  The wind has wrapped her up in its wings; and they shall be disappointed because of their sacrifices.

• Hosea 7:4

  They are all adulterers. They are burning like an oven that the baker stops stirring, from the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.

• Hosea 13:3

  Therefore they will be like the morning mist, and like the dew that passes away early, like the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor, and like the smoke out of the chimney.

• Habakkuk 1:3

  Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.

• Habakkuk 1:4

  Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.

• Habakkuk 1:13

  You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,

• Habakkuk 1:14

  and make men like the fish of the sea, like the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?

• Habakkuk 1:15

  He takes up all of them with the hook. He catches them in his net, and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad.

• Habakkuk 1:16

  Therefore he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious, and his food is good.

• Habakkuk 1:17

  Will he therefore continually empty his net, and kill the nations without mercy?

• Zephaniah 1:17

  I will bring distress on men, that they will walk like blind men, because they have sinned against Yahweh, and their blood will be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung.

• Zechariah 14:17

  It will be, that whoever of all the families of the earth doesn’t go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, Yahweh of Armies, on them there will be no rain.

• Zechariah 14:18

  If the family of Egypt doesn’t go up, and doesn’t come, neither will it rain on them. This will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike the nations that don’t go up to keep the feast of tents.

• Zechariah 14:19

  This will be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations that don’t go up to keep the feast of tents.

• Malachi 3:15

  Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’

• Malachi 4:1

  “For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

• Malachi 4:3

  You shall tread down the wicked; for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make,” says Yahweh of Armies.

• Matthew 1:12

  After the exile to Babylon, Jechoniah became the father of Shealtiel. Shealtiel became the father of Zerubbabel.

• Matthew 3:12

  His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.”

• Matthew 5:11

  “Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

• Matthew 5:12

  Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

• Matthew 7:6

  “Don’t give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

• Matthew 7:26

  Everyone who hears these words of mine, and doesn’t do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house on the sand.

• Matthew 11:16

  “But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces, who call to their companions

• Matthew 13:5

  Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn’t have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth.

• Matthew 13:38

  the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the children of the Kingdom; and the darnel weeds are the children of the evil one.

• Matthew 13:48

  which, when it was filled, they drew up on the beach. They sat down, and gathered the good into containers, but the bad they threw away.

• Matthew 15:14

  Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.”

• Matthew 18:11

  For the Son of Man came to save that which was lost.

• Matthew 18:12

  “What do you think? If a man has one hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine, go to the mountains, and seek that which has gone astray?

• Matthew 18:13

  If he finds it, most certainly I tell you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray.

• Matthew 18:14

  Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.

• Matthew 20:1

  “For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.

• Matthew 20:2

  When he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

• Matthew 20:3

  He went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace.

• Matthew 23:27

  “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.

• Matthew 23:33

  You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?

• Matthew 25:32

  Before him all the nations will be gathered, and he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

• Luke 6:22

  Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and when they shall exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake.

• Luke 6:23

  Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven, for their fathers did the same thing to the prophets.

• Luke 6:43

  For there is no good tree that produces rotten fruit; nor again a rotten tree that produces good fruit.

• John 3:16

  For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

• John 3:17

  For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

• Romans 1:24

  Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves,

• Romans 1:26

  For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.

• Romans 1:28

  Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

• Romans 5:8

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

• Romans 9:13

  Even as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

• 1 Corinthians 10:5

  However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

• 2 Peter 2:12

  But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,

• 2 Peter 2:17

  These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

• 2 Peter 2:22

  But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, “The dog turns to his own vomit again,” and “the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire.”

• 1 John 3:16

  By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

• 1 John 4:9

  By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

• 1 John 4:10

  In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.