Bible Verses About Wicked: Described

But the men of Sodom were wicked, sinning greatly against the LORD.

Then the LORD said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great. Because their sin is so grievous,

Even the land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants.

The LORD also said to me, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.

You have been rebelling against the LORD since the day I came to know you.

He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye.

But their vine is from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poisonous; their clusters are bitter.

Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.

As the old proverb says, ‘Wickedness proceeds from the wicked.’ But my hand will never be against you.

When Elijah arrived, Ahab said to him, “So you have found me out, my enemy.” He replied, “I have found you out because you have sold yourself to do evil in the sight of the LORD.

And now you intend to reduce to slavery the men and women of Judah and Jerusalem. But are you not also guilty before the LORD your God?

In the time of his distress, King Ahaz became even more unfaithful to the LORD.

that You gave through Your servants the prophets, saying: ‘The land that you are entering to possess is a land polluted by the impurity of its peoples and the abominations with which they have filled it from end to end.

Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!

how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?

A wicked man writhes in pain all his days; only a few years are reserved for the ruthless.

Sounds of terror fill his ears; in his prosperity the destroyer attacks him.

He despairs of his return from darkness; he is marked for the sword.

He wanders about as food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.

Distress and anguish terrify him, overwhelming him like a king poised to attack.

For he has stretched out his hand against God and has vaunted himself against the Almighty,

rushing headlong at Him with a thick, studded shield.

Though his face is covered with fat and his waistline bulges with flesh,

he will dwell in ruined cities, in abandoned houses destined to become rubble.

He will no longer be rich; his wealth will not endure. His possessions will not overspread the land.