Bible Verses About Wicked

To all who are themselves pure, everything is pure. But to those who are defiled and without trust, nothing is pure — even their minds and consciences have been defiled.

They claim to know God, but with their actions they deny him. They are detestable and disobedient; they have proved themselves unfit to do anything good.

For at one time, we too were foolish and disobedient, deceived and enslaved by a variety of passions and pleasures. We spent our lives in evil and envy; people hated us, and we hated each other.

But let him ask in trust, doubting nothing; for the doubter is like a wave in the sea being tossed and driven by the wind.

Indeed that person should not think that he will receive anything from the Lord,

Or you pray and don’t receive, because you pray with the wrong motive, that of wanting to indulge your own desires.

You husbands, likewise, conduct your married lives with understanding. Although your wife may be weaker physically, you should respect her as a fellow-heir of the gift of Life. If you don’t, your prayers will be blocked.

For the time has come for the judgment to begin. It begins with the household of God; and if it starts with us, what will the outcome be for those who are disobeying God’s Good News? —

“If the righteous is barely delivered, where will the ungodly and sinful end up?”

especially those who follow their old natures in lust for filth and who despise authority. Presumptuous and self-willed, these false teachers do not tremble at insulting angelic beings;

But these people, acting without thinking, like animals without reason, born to be captured and destroyed, insult things about which they have no knowledge. When they are destroyed, their destruction will be total —

they will be paid back harm as wages for the harm they are doing. Their idea of pleasure is carousing in broad daylight; they are spots and defects reveling in their deceptions as they share meals with you —

for they have eyes always on the lookout for a woman who will commit adultery, eyes that never stop sinning; and they have a heart that has exercised itself in greed; so that they seduce unstable people. What a cursed brood!

These people have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Bil‘am Ben-B‘or, who loved the wages of doing harm

but was rebuked for his sin — a dumb beast of burden spoke out with a human voice and restrained the prophet’s insanity!

Waterless springs they are, mists driven by a gust of wind; for them has been reserved the blackest darkness.

Mouthing grandiosities of nothingness, they play on the desires of the old nature, in order to seduce with debaucheries people who have just begun to escape from those whose way of life is wrong.

They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption; for a person is slave to whatever has defeated him.

If we claim to have fellowship with him while we are walking in the darkness, we are lying and not living out the truth.

But if we are walking in the light, as he is in the light, then we have fellowship with each other, and the blood of his Son Yeshua purifies us from all sin.

And everyone who has this hope in him continues purifying himself, since God is pure.

Everyone who keeps sinning is violating Torah — indeed, sin is violation of Torah.

You know that he appeared in order to take away sins, and that there is no sin in him.

So no one who remains united with him continues sinning; everyone who does continue sinning has neither seen him nor known him.

Children, don’t let anyone deceive you — it is the person that keeps on doing what is right who is righteous, just as God is righteous.