Bible Verses About Wicked

Yes, he will pay back misery and anguish to every human being who does evil, to the Jew first, then to the Gentile;

but glory and honor and shalom to everyone who keeps doing what is good, to the Jew first, then to the Gentile.

As the Tanakh puts it, “There is no one righteous, not even one! No one understands,

no one seeks God,

all have turned away and at the same time become useless; there is no one who shows kindness, not a single one!

“Their throats are open graves, they use their tongues to deceive. Vipers’ venom is under their lips.

Their mouths are full of curses and bitterness.

“Their feet rush to shed blood,

in their ways are ruin and misery,

and the way of shalom they do not know.

“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

For those who identify with their old nature set their minds on the things of the old nature, but those who identify with the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.

For the mind controlled by the old nature is hostile to God, because it does not submit itself to God’s Torah — indeed, it cannot.

Thus, those who identify with their old nature cannot please God.

In other words, it is not the physical children who are children of God, but the children the promise refers to who are considered seed.

This accords with where it is written, “Ya‘akov I loved, but Esav I hated.”

Yet with the majority of them God was not pleased, so their bodies were strewn across the desert.

These things happened to them as prefigurative historical events, and they were written down as a warning to us who are living in the acharit-hayamim.

You used to be dead because of your sins and acts of disobedience.

You walked in the ways of the ‘olam hazeh and obeyed the Ruler of the Powers of the Air, who is still at work among the disobedient.

Indeed, we all once lived this way — we followed the passions of our old nature and obeyed the wishes of our old nature and our own thoughts. In our natural condition we were headed for God’s wrath, just like everyone else.

at that time had no Messiah. You were estranged from the national life of Isra’el. You were foreigners to the covenants embodying God’s promise. You were in this world without hope and without God.

But now, you who were once far off have been brought near through the shedding of the Messiah’s blood.

For he himself is our shalom — he has made us both one and has broken down the m’chitzah which divided us

Therefore I say this — indeed, in union with the Lord I insist on it: do not live any longer as the pagans live, with their sterile ways of thinking.