Bible Verses About Character of the Wicked
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In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
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The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.
They only consult to cast him down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.
For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.
10My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
11If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
12Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
13We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
14Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perisheth.
A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.
An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.
A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way that is not good.
The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.
He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person.
The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.
Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:
For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.
None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.