Bible Verses About Wicked

Salvation is far from the wicked because they do not seek Your statutes.

But those who turn to crooked ways the LORD will banish with the evildoers. Peace be upon Israel.

Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand,

because you neglected all my counsel, and wanted none of my correction,

in turn I will mock your calamity; I will sneer when terror strikes you,

when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.

Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; they will earnestly seek me, but will not find me.

For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD.

They accepted none of my counsel; they despised all my reproof.

to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perversity,

from those who leave the straight paths to walk in the ways of darkness,

from those who enjoy doing evil and rejoice in the twistedness of evil,

whose paths are crooked and whose ways are devious.

It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words

who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.

For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits.

None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life.

For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.

A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth,

winking his eyes, speaking with his feet, and pointing with his fingers.

With deceit in his heart he devises evil; he continually sows discord.

Therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in an instant he will be shattered beyond recovery.

Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.

He who walks in integrity walks securely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out.

The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of judgment.