- Psalm 94:23 (NIV):
“He will repay them for their sins and destroy them for their wickedness; the Lord our God will destroy them.”
- Proverbs 11:5 (NIV):
“The righteousness of the blameless makes their paths straight, but the wicked are brought down by their own wickedness.”
- Proverbs 13:6 (NIV):
“Righteousness guards the person of integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.”
- Proverbs 21:15 (NIV):
“When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers.”
- Proverbs 28:4 (NIV):
“Those who forsake instruction praise the wicked, but those who heed it resist them.”
- Proverbs 28:10 (NIV):
“Whoever leads the upright along an evil path will fall into their own trap, but the blameless will receive a good inheritance.”
- Proverbs 28:28 (NIV):
“When the wicked rise to power, people go into hiding; but when the wicked perish, the righteous thrive.”
- Proverbs 29:6 (NIV):
“Evildoers are snared by their own sin, but the righteous shout for joy and are glad.”
- Isaiah 48:22 (NIV):
“There is no peace,” says the Lord, “for the wicked.”
- Ezekiel 18:20 (NIV):
“The one who sins is the one who will die. The child will not share the guilt of the parent, nor will the parent share the guilt of the child. The righteousness of the righteous will be credited to them, and the wickedness of the wicked will be charged against them.”
- Ezekiel 33:12 (NIV):
“Therefore, son of man, say to your people, ‘If someone who is righteous disobeys, that person’s former righteousness will count for nothing. And if someone who is wicked repents, that person’s former wickedness will not bring condemnation. The righteous person who sins will not be allowed to live even though they were formerly righteous.”
- Matthew 7:17-18 (NIV):
“Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.”
- Matthew 13:41 (NIV):
“The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil.”
- Matthew 25:41 (NIV):
“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.”
- Luke 13:27 (NIV):
“But he will reply, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from. Away from me, all you evildoers!'”
- John 3:20 (NIV):
“Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.”
- John 7:7 (NIV):
“The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify that its works are evil.”
- Romans 1:29-32 (NIV):
“They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.”
- 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 (NIV):
“and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.”
- 2 Timothy 3:13 (NIV):
“while evildoers and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.”
- 2 Peter 2:9-10 (NIV):
“if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment. This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the flesh and despise authority.”
- 2 Peter 2:13-14 (NIV):
“They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you. With eyes full of adultery, they never stop sinning; they seduce the unstable; they are experts in greed—an accursed brood!”
- 1 John 3:4 (NIV):
“Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness.”
- 3 John 1:11 (NIV):
“Dear friend, do not imitate what is evil but what is good. Anyone who does what is good is from God. Anyone who does what is evil has not seen God.”
- Revelation 21:8 (NIV):
“But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”
- Psalm 125:3 (NIV):
“The scepter of the wicked will not remain over the land allotted to the righteous, for then the righteous might use their hands to do evil.”
- Proverbs 4:19 (NIV):
“But the way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know what makes them stumble.”
- Proverbs 14:11 (NIV):
“The house of the wicked will be destroyed, but the tent of the upright will flourish.”
- Isaiah 26:10 (NIV):
“But when grace is shown to the wicked, they do not learn righteousness; even in a land of uprightness they go on doing evil and do not regard the majesty of the Lord.”
- Nahum 1:3 (NIV):
“The Lord is slow to anger but great in power; the Lord will not leave the guilty unpunished. His way is in the whirlwind and the storm, and clouds are the dust of his feet.”