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30 Bible Verses About Wickedness

  1. Psalm 37:1 (NIV):

    “Do not fret because of those who are evil or be envious of those who do wrong.”

  2. Psalm 37:12-13 (NIV):

    “The wicked plot against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them; but the Lord laughs at the wicked, for he knows their day is coming.”

  3. Proverbs 11:5 (NIV):

    “The righteousness of the blameless makes their paths straight, but the wicked are brought down by their own wickedness.”

  4. Proverbs 13:21 (NIV):

    “Trouble pursues the sinner, but the righteous are rewarded with good things.”

  5. Proverbs 24:20 (NIV):

    “for the evildoer has no future hope, and the lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out.”

  6. Proverbs 28:4 (NIV):

    “Those who forsake instruction praise the wicked, but those who heed it resist them.”

  7. Isaiah 48:22 (NIV):

    “There is no peace,” says the Lord, “for the wicked.”

  8. Matthew 7:21-23 (NIV):

    “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’”

  9. Romans 1:18 (NIV):

    “The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness.”

  10. Romans 3:10-12 (NIV):

    “As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God. All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.”

  11. Romans 6:23 (NIV):

    “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

  12. 1 Corinthians 15:33 (NIV):

    “Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.””

  13. Galatians 5:19-21 (NIV):

    “The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.”

  14. Ephesians 4:31 (NIV):

    “Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice.”

  15. Ephesians 5:11 (NIV):

    “Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.”

  16. Colossians 3:5-6 (NIV):

    “Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. Because of these, the wrath of God is coming.”

  17. 2 Thessalonians 2:9-10 (NIV):

    “The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie, and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.”

  18. 2 Timothy 3:1-5 (NIV):

    “But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.”

  19. 2 Peter 2:9 (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.”

  20. 2 Peter 2:13 (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.”

  21. 2 Peter 2:15 (NIV):

    “They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Bezer, who loved the wages of wickedness.”

  22. 2 Peter 2:20 (NIV):

    “If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and are overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning.”

  23. 1 John 1:8 (NIV):

    “If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.”

  24. 1 John 2:15-17 (NIV):

    “Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them. For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever.”

  25. 1 John 3:4 (NIV):

    “Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness.”

  26. 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.”

  27. Revelation 21:27 (NIV):

    “Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.”

  28. Matthew 23:13 (NIV):

    “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.”

  29. 1 Timothy 6:9 (NIV):

    “Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.”

  30. Galatians 6:7-8 (NIV):

    “Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.”