86 Bible Verses about Character Of Wicked

For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

They have corrupted themselves, their blemish is not the blemish of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.

Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that does good.

You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you do always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so do you.

There is none that understands, there is none that seeks after God.

Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.

They only consult to cast him down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.

Shall I count those pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?

Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, and cast your law behind their backs, and slew your prophets who testified against them to turn them to you, and they worked great provocations.

The wicked in his pride does persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. For the wicked boasts of his heart's desire, and blesses the covetous, whom the LORD abhors. The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in any of his thoughts.

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.

For we ourselves also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

Their throat is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:

Therefore the Lord said, Since this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:

For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

That you put off concerning the former way of life the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;

None calls for justice, nor does any plead for truth: they trust in empty words, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

For you are not a God that has pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with you.

The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in any of his thoughts.

Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto licentiousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

And you, that were once alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now has he reconciled

And many other things blasphemously spoke they against him.

And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, who has power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.

In whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of them who believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

For the wicked boasts of his heart's desire, and blesses the covetous, whom the LORD abhors.

They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;

And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.

That Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me harm.

They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and plan deceit all the day long.

And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

You shall destroy them that speak falsehood: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.

Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of the wicked;

Who knowing the judgment of God, that they who commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed at us, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that you do? will you rebel against the king?

And he spoke before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they finish in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?

Unto you therefore who believe he is precious: but unto them who are disobedient, the stone which the builders rejected, the same is made the head of the corner,

For of this sort are they who creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with various lusts,

When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that there had come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.

The wicked flee when no man pursues: but the righteous are bold as a lion.

A violent man entices his neighbor, and leads him into the way that is not good.

Without natural affection, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

Do you thus repay the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he your father that has bought you? has he not made you, and established you?

The foolish shall not stand in your sight: you hate all workers of iniquity.

So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:

The wicked borrows, and pays not again: but the righteous shows mercy, and gives.

Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)

But the house of Israel will not hearken unto you; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hard-hearted.

They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not its ways, nor abide in its paths.

For everyone that does evil hates the light, neither comes to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.

Traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

Hear the word of the LORD, you children of Israel: for the LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land: Because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.

In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:

For they are impudent children and stubborn. I do send you unto them; and you shall say unto them, Thus says the Lord GOD.

A righteous man hates lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and comes to shame.

The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

He that plans to do evil shall be called a mischievous person.

That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asks, and the judge asks for a bribe; and the great man, he utters his evil desire: so they weave it together.

He sits in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places does he murder the innocent: his eyes are secretly set against the poor.

They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.

The way of man is perverse and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.

For the iniquity of his covetousness was I angry, and struck him: I hid myself, and was angry, and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.

What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.

For they persecute him whom you have smitten; and they talk of the grief of those whom you have wounded.

Because he remembered not to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.

For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for the cursing and lying which they speak.

But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:

Examine yourselves, whether you are in the faith; prove your own selves. Know you not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, unless you are counterfeits?

They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

And Ahab said to Elijah, Have you found me, O my enemy? And he answered, I have found you: because you have sold yourself to work evil in the sight of the LORD.

And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

For the LORD had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, you are a stiff-necked people: I will come up into the midst of you in a moment, and consume you: therefore now put off your ornaments from you, that I may know what to do unto you.

Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the farthest corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.

When a wicked man dies, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perishes.

Let favor be showed 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.

Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

An ungodly man digs up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.

They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that does good, no, not one.

For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, especially they of the circumcision:

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward shall be great, and you shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.

And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this corrupt generation.