Bible Verses About Crime

My holy things thou hast despised, And My sabbaths thou hast polluted.

Men of slander have been in thee to shed blood, And on the mountains they have eaten in thee, Wickedness they have done in thy midst.

The nakedness of a father hath one uncovered in thee, The defiled of impurity they humbled in thee.

And each with the wife of his neighbour hath done abomination, And each his daughter-in-law hath defiled through wickedness, And each his sister, his father's daughter, hath humbled in thee.

A bribe they have taken in thee to shed blood, Usury and increase thou hast taken, And cuttest off thy neighbour by oppression, And Me thou hast forgotten, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!

Its princes in its midst are as wolves, Tearing prey, to shed blood, to destroy souls, For the sake of gaining dishonest gain.

And its prophets have daubed for them with chalk, Seeing a vain thing, and divining for them a lie, Saying, `Thus said the Lord Jehovah:' And Jehovah hath not spoken.

The people of the land have used oppression, And have taken plunder violently away, And humble and needy have oppressed, And the sojourner oppressed--without judgment.

And I seek of them a man making a fence, And standing in the breach before Me, In behalf of the land--not to destroy it, And I have not found.

`Hear a word of Jehovah, sons of Israel, For a strife is to Jehovah with inhabitants of the land, For there is no truth, nor kindness, Nor knowledge of God, in the land,

Swearing, and lying, and murdering, And stealing, and committing adultery--have increased, And blood against blood hath touched.

for from within, out of the heart of men, the evil reasonings do come forth, adulteries, whoredoms, murders,

thefts, covetous desires, wickedness, deceit, arrogance, an evil eye, evil speaking, pride, foolishness;

having been filled with all unrighteousness, whoredom, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers,

evil-speakers, God-haters, insulting, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

unintelligent, faithless, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful;

who the righteous judgment of God having known--that those practising such things are worthy of death--not only do them, but also have delight with those practising them.

Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.

Swift are their feet to shed blood.

Ruin and misery are in their ways.

And a way of peace they did not know.

There is no fear of God before their eyes.'

And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, strifes, emulations, wraths, rivalries, dissensions, sects,

envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that those doing such things the reign of God shall not inherit.