41 Bible Verses about Evildoers
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Conduct yourselves honorably among the Gentiles, so that in a case where they speak against you as those who do what is evil, they will, by observing your good works, glorify God on the day of visitation.
None of you, however, should suffer as a murderer, a thief, an evildoer, or a meddler.
Everyone must submit to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those that exist are instituted by God. So then, the one who resists the authority is opposing God’s command, and those who oppose it will bring judgment on themselves. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Do you want to be unafraid of the authority? Do what is good, and you will have its approval. read more.
For government is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, because it does not carry the sword for no reason. For government is God’s servant, an avenger that brings wrath on the one who does wrong.
The face of the Lord is set
against those who do what is evil,
to erase all memory of them from the earth.
Every morning I will destroy
all the wicked of the land,
eliminating all evildoers from the Lord’s city.
A wicked person listens to malicious talk;
a liar pays attention to a destructive tongue.
or to governors as those sent out by him to punish those who do what is evil and to praise those who do what is good.
As the old proverb says, ‘Wickedness comes from wicked people.’ My hand will never be against you.
As for me, even though I am the anointed king, I have little power today. These men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too fierce for me. May the Lord repay the evildoer according to his evil!”
Look, God does not reject a person of integrity,
and He will not support evildoers.
Will evildoers never understand?
They consume My people as they consume bread;
they do not call on the Lord.
Will evildoers never understand?
They consume My people as they consume bread;
they do not call on God.
though the wicked sprout like grass
and all evildoers flourish,
they will be eternally destroyed.
But as for those who turn aside to crooked ways,
the Lord will banish them with the evildoers.
Peace be with Israel.
Do not let my heart turn to any evil thing
or perform wicked acts
with men who commit sin.
Do not let me feast on their delicacies.
Justice executed is a joy to the righteous
but a terror to those who practice iniquity.
Oh sinful nation,
people weighed down with iniquity,
brood of evildoers,
depraved children!
They have abandoned the Lord;
they have despised the Holy One of Israel;
they have turned their backs on Him.
But He also is wise and brings disaster.
He does not go back on what He says;
He will rise up against the house of wicked men
and against the allies of evildoers.
Among the prophets of Jerusalem also
I saw a horrible thing:
They commit adultery and walk in lies.
They strengthen the hands of evildoers,
and none turns his back on evil.
They are all like Sodom to Me;
Jerusalem’s residents are like Gomorrah.
Israel, you have sinned
since the days of Gibeah;
they have taken their stand there.
Will not war against the unjust
overtake them in Gibeah?
So now we consider the arrogant to be fortunate. Not only do those who commit wickedness prosper, they even test God and escape.”
“For indeed, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and everyone who commits wickedness will become stubble. The coming day will consume them,” says the Lord of Hosts, “not leaving them root or branches.
so that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. For He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
Then I will announce to them, ‘I never knew you! Depart from Me, you lawbreakers!’
But He will say, ‘I tell you, I don’t know you or where you’re from. Get away from Me, all you workers of unrighteousness!’
Whoever is faithful in very little is also faithful in much, and whoever is unrighteous in very little is also unrighteous in much.
The Pharisee took his stand and was praying like this: ‘God, I thank You that I’m not like other people —greedy, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
And I have a hope in God, which these men themselves also accept, that there is going to be a resurrection, both of the righteous and the unrighteous.
If any of you has a legal dispute against another, do you dare go to court before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?
For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.
Watch out for “dogs,” watch out for evil workers, watch out for those who mutilate the flesh.
For Christ also suffered for sins once for all,
the righteous for the unrighteous,
that He might bring you to God,
after being put to death in the fleshly realm
but made alive in the spiritual realm.
then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment,
