Bible Verses About Wicked

He who conceals his sins will not succeed; he who confesses and abandons them will gain mercy.

Happy the person who is never without fear, but he who hardens his heart will fall into misfortune.

Whoever lives blamelessly will be saved, but he whose ways are crooked will fall in one [of those ways].

Concerning people, I said to myself, "God is testing them, so that they will see that by themselves they are just animals.

because the punishment decreed for an evil act is not promptly carried out; therefore people who plan to do evil are strengthened in their intentions.

For a sinner can do evil a hundred times and still live a long life; although I know that in the end things will go well with those who fear God, because they fear him.

But things will not go well with the wicked; and, like a shadow, he will not prolong his days; because he doesn't fear God.

"Oh, sinful nation, a people weighed down by iniquity, descendants of evildoers, immoral children! They have abandoned ADONAI, spurned the Holy One of Isra'el, turned their backs on him!

"Where should I strike you next, as you persist in rebelling? The whole head is sick, the whole heart diseased.

From the sole of the foot to the head there is nothing healthy, only wounds, bruises and festering sores that haven't been dressed or bandaged or softened up with oil.

Hear what ADONAI says, you rulers of S'dom! Listen to God's Torah, you people of 'Amora!

"Why are all those sacrifices offered to me?" asks ADONAI. "I'm fed up with burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fattened animals! I get no pleasure from the blood of bulls, lambs and goats!

Yes, you come to appear in my presence; but who asked you to do this, to trample through my courtyards?

Stop bringing worthless grain offerings! They are like disgusting incense to me! Rosh-Hodesh, Shabbat, calling convocations - I can't stand evil together with your assemblies!

Everything in me hates your Rosh-Hodesh and your festivals; they are a burden to me - I'm tired of putting up with them!

"When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; no matter how much you pray, I won't be listening; because your hands are covered with blood.

for you will be like an oak whose leaf fades, like a garden without any water.

Their very look witnesses against them! They parade their sin, like S'dom; they don't even try to hide it - all the worse for them! - they bring evil on themselves.

Woe to those who get up early to pursue intoxicating liquor; who stay up late at night, until wine inflames them.

They have lutes and lyres, drums and flutes, and wine at their parties; but they pay no attention to how ADONAI works and never look at what his hands have made.

Woe to those who begin by pulling at transgression with a thread, but end by dragging sin along as if with a cart rope.

They say, "We want God to speed up his work, to hurry it along, so we can see it! We want the Holy One of Isra'el's plan to come true right now, so we can be sure of it!"

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who change darkness into light and light into darkness, who change bitter into sweet and sweet into bitter!

Woe to those seeing themselves as wise, esteeming themselves as clever.

Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine, men whose power goes to mixing strong drinks,