16 Bible Verses about Growth Of Evil

And He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they are doing, the great abominations which the house of Israel are committing here, so that I would be far from My sanctuary? But yet you will see still greater abominations.”

And He said to me, “Yet you will see still greater abominations which they are committing.”

He said to me, “Do you see this, son of man? Yet you will see still greater abominations than these.”

So she increased her harlotries. And she saw men portrayed on the wall, images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,

Yet she multiplied her harlotries, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

But she has rebelled against My ordinances more wickedly than the nations and against My statutes more than the lands which surround her; for they have rejected My ordinances and have not walked in My statutes.’

The more they multiplied, the more they sinned against Me;
I will change their glory into shame.

I will not drive them out before you in a single year, that the land may not become desolate and the beasts of the field become too numerous for you.

You have multiplied your slain in this city, filling its streets with them.”

For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces;
And Judah has multiplied fortified cities,
But I will send a fire on its cities that it may consume its palatial dwellings.

Since Ephraim has multiplied altars for sin,
They have become altars of sinning for him.

The more they called them,
The more they went from them;
They kept sacrificing to the Baals
And burning incense to idols.

It is enough for the disciple that he become like his teacher, and the slave like his master. If they have called the head of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign the members of his household!

Because lawlessness is increased, most people’s love will grow cold.

The Law came in so that the transgression would increase; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,

The Lord has become like an enemy.
He has swallowed up Israel;
He has swallowed up all its palaces,
He has destroyed its strongholds
And multiplied in the daughter of Judah
Mourning and moaning.