Quotes About Wickedness

But if you warn the wicked man to turn from his way, and he does not turn from it, he will die in his iniquity, but you will have saved your life.

Say to them: ëAs surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked should turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?í

Therefore, son of man, say to your people: ëThe righteousness of the righteous man will not deliver him in the day of his transgression; neither will the wickedness of the wicked man cause him to stumble on the day he turns from his wickedness. Nor will the righteous man be able to survive by his righteousness on the day he sins.í

But if I tell the wicked man, ëYou will surely die,í and he turns from his sin and does what is just and right—

But if a wicked man turns from his wickedness and does what is just and right, he will live because of this.

This is what the Lord GOD says: On that day, thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.

we have sinned and done wrong. We have acted wickedly and rebelled. We have turned away from Your commandments and ordinances.

Now, O Lord our God, who brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and who made for Yourself a name renowned to this day, we have sinned; we have acted wickedly.

Many will be purified, made spotless, and refined, but the wicked will continue to act wickedly. None of the wicked will understand, but the wise will understand.

They delight the king with their evil, and the princes with their lies.

All their evil appears at Gilgal, for there I hated them. I will drive them from My house for the wickedness of their deeds. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious.

You have plowed wickedness and reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your own way and in the multitude of your mighty men,

Thus it will be done to you, O Bethel, because of your great wickedness. When the day dawns, the king of Israel will be utterly cut off.

Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, trample the grapes, for the winepress is full; the wine vats overflow because their wickedness is great.

“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before Me.”

Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morningís light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.

Can I forget any longer, O house of the wicked, the treasures of wickedness and the short ephah, which is accursed?

From you, O Nineveh, comes forth a plotter of evil against the LORD, a counselor of wickedness.

Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without prey.

Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.

Your eyes are too pure to look upon evil, and You cannot tolerate wrongdoing. So why do You tolerate the faithless? Why are You silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?

Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by iniquity!

You went forth for the salvation of Your people, to save Your anointed. You crushed the head of the house of the wicked and stripped him from head to toe. Selah

“I will sweep away man and beast; I will sweep away the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, and the idols with their wicked worshipers. I will cut off mankind from the face of the earth,” declares the LORD.