Bible Verses About Wicked

Hagai then said, "'That is the condition of this people, that is the condition of this nation before me,' says ADONAI, 'and that is the condition of everything their hands produce; so that anything they offer there is unclean.

Yes, they made their hearts as hard as a diamond, so that they wouldn't hear the Torah and the messages that ADONAI-Tzva'ot had sent by his Spirit through the earlier prophets. This is why great anger came from ADONAI-Tzva'ot;

and it came about that just as they hadn't listened when he called, so ADONAI-Tzva'ot said, 'I won't listen when they call;

If any of the families of the earth does not go up to Yerushalayim to worship the king, ADONAI-Tzva'ot, no rain will fall on them.

If the family of Egypt doesn't go up, if they refuse to come, they will have no [annual] overflow [from the Nile]; moreover, there will be the plague with which ADONAI will strike the nations that don't go up to keep the festival of Sukkot.

This will be Egypt's punishment and the punishment of all the nations that don't go up to keep the festival of Sukkot.

So if you pray now that God will show us favor, what your actions have accomplished is that ADONAI-Tzva'ot asks, "Will he receive any of you?

Y'hudah has broken faith; an abomination has been committed in Isra'el and Yerushalayim. For Y'hudah has profaned the sanctuary of ADONAI, which he loves, by marrying the daughter of a foreign god.

If a man does this and presents an offering to ADONAI-Tzva'ot, may ADONAI cut him off from the tents of Ya'akov, whether initiator or follower.

Here is something else you do: you cover ADONAI's altar with tears, with weeping and with sighing, because he no longer looks at the offering or receives your gift with favor.

We consider the arrogant happy; also evildoers prosper; they put God to the test; nevertheless, they escape.'"

Then once again you will see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between the person who serves God and one that doesn't serve him.

the people living in darkness have seen a great light; upon those living in the region, in the shadow of death, light has dawned."

"How blessed you are when people insult you and persecute you and tell all kinds of vicious lies about you because you follow me!

Rejoice, be glad, because your reward in heaven is great -- they persecuted the prophets before you in the same way.

but if you have an `evil eye' [if you are stingy] your whole body will be full of darkness. If, then, the light in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

For the Son of Man came to save the lost.

He answered them, "To you the secret of the Kingdom of God has been given; but to those outside, everything is in parables,

to shine on those in darkness, living in the shadow of death, and to guide our feet into the paths of peace."

Therefore, Yochanan said to the crowds who came out to be immersed by him, "You snakes! Who warned you to escape the coming punishment?

If you have really turned from your sins, produce fruit that will prove it! And don't start saying to yourselves, `Avraham is our father'! For I tell you that God can raise up for Avraham sons from these stones!

Already the axe is at the root of the trees, ready to strike; every tree that doesn't produce good fruit will be chopped down and thrown in the fire!"

"How blessed you are whenever people hate you and ostracize you and insult you and denounce you as a criminal on account of the Son of Man.

Be glad when that happens; yes, dance for joy! because in heaven your reward is great. For that is just how their fathers treated the prophets.

For the Son of Man came to seek and save what was lost.”