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Edsel Charles PO Box 1071. Brentwood, TN 37027 615-371-2282 [email protected] Insights from Proverbs, A Wicked Person

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Of the 70 types of people this is one of the worst.

(On page 10 is a teaching testimony on how a wicked person deals with people.)

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“At first” --they are a really difficult person to identify. They can start out loving but will end up hating the righteous. Of the 70 types of people we discuss out of Proverbs this is the only one you must confront with their wickedness. This person projects righteousness but it is self righteous. They project at times being religious but not christianity. They are 80% (+ -) true but 20% (+ -) into deception. They not only are a master at deceiving others but it is out of deceiving themselves. Proverbs 21:12-The righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked: but God overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness.

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70 TYPES OF PEOPLE IN PROVERBS

EXPRESSED BY SOLOMON

1. Simple Person 2. Wise Person 3. Man of Understanding 4. Fool 5. Innocent 6. Scorner 7. Evil Person 8. Froward Person

9. 10. Strange Woman 11. Upright 12. Transgressor 13. Cruel Person 14. Sluggard 15. Naughty Person 16. False Witness 17. Whorish woman 18. Adulteress 19. Thief 20. Harlot 21. Poor Person 22. Diligent Person 23. Rich Person 24. Unjust 25. Hypocrite 26. Talebearer 27. Faithful Person 28. Gracious Person 29. Brutish Person 30. Virtuous Person 31. Perverse Person 32. Vain Person 33. Prudent Person 34. Slothful Person 35. Backslider

36. Angry Person 37. Deceiver 38. Hasty of Spirit 39. Envious Person 40. Wrathful Person 41. Proud Person 42. Pure Person 43. Prideful Person 44. Haughty Person 45. Humble Person 46. Lowly Person 47. Whisperer 48. Violent Person 49. Liar 50. Waster 51. Brother 52. Ungodly 53. Mocker 54. Brawling Woman 55. Contentious Person 56. Furious Person 57. Riotous Eaters of Flesh 58. Drunkard 59. Glutton 60. Mischievous Person 61. Reprover 62. Unfaithful Person 63. Backbiter 64. Conceited Person 65. Flatterer 66. Destroyer 67. Bloodthirsty 68. Odious Woman 69. Greedy Person

70. Borrower, Buyer, Lender

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NOTE: All scripture references throughout this study are from the King James Version of the Bible.

Conduct Towards Wickedness Psalms 37:7 Rest in the LORD , and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.

Memory Of The Grief Will Leave But People Will Not Forget The Wicked Person

Proverbs 10:7 The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.

Wickedness Can Be Religious 2 Samuel 22:22 For I have kept the ways of the LORD , and have not wickedly departed from my God. 2 Chronicles 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. Psalms 119:155 Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes. Proverbs 15:9 The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the LORD : but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness.(Abomination means deceptive motivation.) Ecclesiastes 8:10 And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity. Jeremiah 5:26 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men. 2 Thessalonians 3:2 And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not faith.

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Proverbs 15:8 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD : but the prayer of the upright is his delight. Proverbs 15:29 The LORD is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous. Jeremiah 4:14 O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?

A Wicked Person Is Unreasonable (Froward) Proverbs 6:12 A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth. (Unreasonable mouth) Proverbs 15:28 The heart of the righteous studieth to answer: but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things. Isaiah 26:10 Let favour be shewed 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 . 2 Timothy 3:13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

Not Doing What Is Right to Others For What They Have Coming Deuteronomy 15:9 Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee. Psalms 37:35 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. Psalms 82:4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked. Proverbs 12:10 A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

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Proverbs 12:21 There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief. Jeremiah 12:1 Righteous art thou, O LORD , when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously? Psalms 73:8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily. Psalms 55:3 Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.

Avoid a partnership with a wicked person or you are at risk Proverbs 11:21 Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.

For A While They Can Get Away With Things Hoseah 7:3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. Job 20:5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? Psalms 10:3 For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth. Psalms 82:2 How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah. Psalms 94:3 Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph? Proverbs 3:25 Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh. Proverbs 24:19 Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the wicked;

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Isaiah 57:20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.

The Wicked Are In A Tough Place Deuteronomy 25:1 If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked. 2 Samuel 4:11 How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth? 1 Kings 8:32 Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness. 2 Chronicles 6:23 Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness. Psalms 91:8 Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked. Psalms 92:7 When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever: Proverbs 10:24-25 24. The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted. 25 As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation. Proverbs 10:27 The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened. Proverbs 10:30 The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.

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Proverbs 11:8 The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked cometh in his stead. Proverbs 11:10 When it goeth well with the righteous, the city rejoiceth: and when the wicked perish, there is shouting. Proverbs 12:7 The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand. Proverbs 13:25 The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul: but the belly of the wicked shall want. Proverbs 14:11 The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish. Proverbs 15:6 In the house of the righteous is much treasure: but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble. Proverbs 15:8 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight. Proverbs 16:4 The LORD HATH made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil. Psalms 37:38 But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.

God’s Admonition To A Wicked Person Jeremiah 8:6 I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle. Psalms 58:3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

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Isaiah 48:22 There is no peace, saith the LORD , unto the wicked. Isaiah 57:21 There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked. Isaiah 55:7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD , and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. Ezekiel 3:18-19 18. When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. 19 Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. Ezekiel 33:8-9 8.When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. 9 Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. Isaiah 58:6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?

Conduct Towards Wickedness

Psalms 37:40 And the LORD shall help them and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him. Psalms 71:4 Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man. Psalms 73:3 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

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Psalms 140:4 Keep me, O LORD , from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings. Proverbs 4:14 Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. Luke 6:35 But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil. Luke 6:45 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh. Ephesians 6:16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.

Caution On Addressing A Scorner Or Wicked Person Proverbs 9:7 He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.

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A Teaching Testimony

They have a history of Wickedness Psalms 58:3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

Salvation an issue

Psalms 119:155 Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes. Psalms 9:17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.

But God extends his forgiveness Isaiah 55:7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD , and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. Ezekiel 18:23-24, 27 23 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD : and not that he should return from his ways, and live? 24 But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die. 27 Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.

But the wicked tend to turn away

Isaiah 57:20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.

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They have no peace

Isaiah 57:21 There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked. Isaiah 48:22 There is no peace, saith the LORD , unto the wicked.

When they grow up they struggle

Proverbs 5:22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. Job 15:20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor. Psalms 32:10 Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the LORD , mercy shall compass him about. Isa 58:3 Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours. Early on they realize that the way they can “use” others is through a portrayal of self righteousness that they try to show as real righteousness. Some even enter and mingle with religious people. 2 Chronicles 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. Ecclesiastes 8:10 And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.

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Jeremiah 5:26 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men. 2 Thessalonians 3:2 And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not faith. Proverbs 15:8 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD : but the prayer of the upright is his delight. Proverbs 15:29 The LORD is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous. Jeremiah 4:14 O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee? Proverbs 4:19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble. Proverbs 21:27 The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind? Actually they become better and better at deception. It includes lies, (i.e.) getting someone else to not act, and moves to deception, (i.e.) getting someone else to act. Proverbs 11:18 The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward. Proverbs 12:5 The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit. Job 10:3 Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked? Job 21:16 Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

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Job 22:18 Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me. Job 36:17 But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee. Psalms 1:6 For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish. Psalms 37:21 The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth. Psalms 50:16 But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth? Psalms 109:2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue. Psalms 141:10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal escape. Proverbs 4:14 Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. Proverbs 10:16 The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin. Proverbs 10:32 The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness. It is not always easy “at first” to recognize a wicked person. They learn some ways of good people and how to manipulate their way into people with money. However, they also love the way of an evil man as the evil man does what they would rather do. Proverbs 12:12 The wicked desireth the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit.

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Proverbs 4:14 Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. Proverbs 21:10 The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes. They are seriously conflicted and struggle. A desire for evil yet the need to deceive keeps them acting like they are righteous. Maybe even involved in church work. Isaiah 48:22 There is no peace, saith the LORD , unto the wicked. Isaiah 57:20-21 20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. 21 There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked. In order to get gain they “work people.” Jeremiah 5:26 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men. Daniel 12:10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand. Psalms 10:15 Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none. Psalms 10:15 Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none. Psalms 11:2 For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.

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Psalms 71:4 Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man. Psalms 82:4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked. Psalms 119:61 The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten thy law. Psalms 119:95 The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies. Psalms 119:110 The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts. Psalms 141:10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal escape. Proverbs 11:18 The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward. Proverbs 12:6 The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. Prov 12:12 The wicked desireth the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit. Proverbs 13:17 A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health. It is now increasingly obvious that the way of a wicked person is at odds with God’s ways and they dislike “real” Christians. The reason is that God’s word reveals who the wicked are and “real” Christians reveal who the wicked are not. This happens by actions and thoughts being compared or contrasted.

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Psalms 10:4, 13 4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts. 13 Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it. Psalms 37:21 The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth. Proverbs 13:9 The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out. Psalms 119:155 Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes. Proverbs 15:8, 29 8 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD : but the prayer of the upright is his delight. 29 The LORD is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous. Proverbs 21:27 The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind? Isaiah 26:10 Let favour be shewed 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 . Psalms 10:13 Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it. Psalms 34:21 Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate. Psalms 37:12, 14, 17, 28, 32, 38 12 The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth. 14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation. 17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD upholdeth the righteous. 28 For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off. 32 The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him. 38 But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.

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Psalms 97:10 Ye that love the LORD , hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked. Psalms 141:10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal escape. Proverbs 11:8 The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked cometh in his stead. Proverbs 12:6-7 6 The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. 7 The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand. Proverbs 14:32 The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death. Proverbs 29:27 An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked. You must be real careful how you justify the wicked. Psalms 26:5 I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked. Psalms 82:2 How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah. Proverbs 17:15 He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD . Proverbs 17:23 A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment. Proverbs 18:5 It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment. Proverbs 21:12 The righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked: but God overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness.

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Proverbs 24:19, 24 19 Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the wicked; 24 He that saith unto the wicked, Thou are righteous; him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor him: Proverbs 25:26 A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring. Proverbs 28:4 They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them. Proverbs 29:12 If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked. Ecclesiastes 8:10 And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity. Isaiah 5:23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him! Isaiah 26:10 Let favour be shewed 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 . Ezekiel 13:22 Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life: Habakkuk 1:13 Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he? Malachi 3:18 Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not. Malachi 4:3 And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts.

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The wicked get to the place they are always fearful. Proverbs 28:1 The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion. Proverbs 10:24 The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted. Through deception, manipulation and doing what is right 80% of the time (+ -) and applying evil dealings the wicked tend to get money and at times power. The poor and/ or righteous person or observer or employee can struggle big time with this. Jeremiah 12:1 Righteous art thou, O LORD , when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously? Job 16:11 God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked. Job 20:5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? Job 21:7 Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? Psalms 10:2-4, 13 2 The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. 3 For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth. 4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts. 13 Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.

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Psalms 11:2 For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart. Psalms 37:10, 12, 14 , 21 10 For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be. 12 The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth. 14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation. 21 The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth. Psalms 37:32 The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him. Psalms 37:35 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. Psalms 55:3 Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me. Psalms 71:4 Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man. Psalms 73:3 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. Psalms 73:12 Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches. Psalms 94:3 Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph? Psalms 119:95, 110 95 The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies. 110 The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts. Proverbs 15:6 In the house of the righteous is much treasure: but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble.

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Proverbs 17:23 A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment. Proverbs 24:19 Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the wicked; Proverbs 25:26 A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring. Proverbs 28:4 They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them. Proverbs 28:12 When righteous men do rejoice, there is great glory: but when the wicked rise, a man is hidden. Proverbs 28:15 As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people. Proverbs 29:2 When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn. Proverbs 29:7 The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it. Ecclessiates 7:15 All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness. Isaiah 26:10 Let favour be shewed 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 . Micah 6:10 Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable? Malachi 3:18 Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not. Psalms 119:119 Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love thy testimonies.

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How some difficult employers see wicked people as what they want. Proverbs 11:11 By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked. Proverbs 25:5 Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness. Proverbs 29:2 When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn. Proverbs 29:12 If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked. Psalms 12:8 The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted. When a wicked man seemingly is going to do good for a person they dilute or strip the offering or put such things on it that it is cruel. Proverbs 12:10 A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel. You need caution in how you relate to a wicked person. Proverbs 9:7 He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot. Be careful you do not accept the person who is wicked and delay doing what is right. Psalms 82:2 How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.

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The End of the wicked. Job 8:22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought. Job 11:20 But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost. Job 15:20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor. Job 18:5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine. Job 20:5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? Job 21:17 How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger. Job 36:6, 17 6 He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor. 17 But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee. Job 38:15 And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken. Job 40:12 Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place. Psalms 1:4, 6 4 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. 6 For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish. Psalms 3:7 Arise, O LORD ; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.

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Psalms 7:9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins. Psalms 9:5 Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever. Psalms 9:16-17 16 The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah. 17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God. Psalms 11:5-6 5 The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth. 6 Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup. Psalms 32:10 Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the LORD , mercy shall compass him about. Psalms 34:21 Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate. Psalms 37:10 For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be. Psalms 37:17, 20, 28, 34, 38 17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD upholdeth the righteous. 20 But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away. 28 For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off. 34 Wait on the LORD , and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it. 38 But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off. Psalms 58:10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. Psalms 91:8 Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.

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Psalms 94:13 That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked. Psalms 101:8 I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD . Psalms 112:10 The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish. Psalms 139:19 Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men. Psalms 141:10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal escape. Psalms 145:20 The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy. Psalms 146:9 The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down. Proverbs 3:33 The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just. Proverbs 4:19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble. Proverbs 5:22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. Proverbs 10:3, 6, 11 3 The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked. 6 Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked. 11 The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked. Proverbs 10:16 The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.

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Proverbs 10:20, 25 20 The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth. 25 As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation. Proverbs 10:27-30 27 The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened. 28 The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish. 29 The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity. 30 The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth. Proverbs 10:32 The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness. Proverbs 11:5, 7, 8, 10, 11 5 The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness. 7 When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perisheth. 8 The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked cometh in his stead. 10 When it goeth well with the righteous, the city rejoiceth: and when the wicked perish, there is shouting. 11 By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked. Proverbs 11:18 The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward. Proverbs 11:23, 31 23 The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath. 31 Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner. Proverbs 12:5-7 5 The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit. 6 The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. 7 The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.

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Proverbs 12:10 A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel. Proverbs 12:21, 26 21 There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief. 26 The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them. Proverbs 13:5, 9, 17, 25 5 A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame. 9 The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out. 17 A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health. 25 The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul: but the belly of the wicked shall want. Proverbs 14:11, 19, 32 11 The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish. 19 The evil bow before the good; and the wicked at the gates of the righteous. 32 The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death. Proverbs 15:6,8, 9 6 In the house of the righteous is much treasure: but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble. 8 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD : but the prayer of the upright is his delight. 9 The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the LORD : but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness. Proverbs 15:28-29 28 The heart of the righteous studieth to answer: but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things. 29 The LORD is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous. Proverbs 16:4 The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil. Proverbs 17:23 A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment. Proverbs 19:28 An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity.

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Proverbs 20:26 A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them. Proverbs 21:4, 7, 10, 18, 27 4 An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin. 7 The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment. 10 The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes. 18 The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright. 27 The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind? Proverbs 21:29 A wicked man hardeneth his face: but as for the upright, he directeth his way. Proverbs 24:16, 20 16 For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief. 20 For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out. Proverbs 28:1 The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion. Proverbs 29:12 If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked. Isaiah 3:11 Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him. Jeremiah 23:19 Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked. Malachi 4:3 And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts. A solution for a wicked person Isaiah 55:7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD , and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

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Ezekiel 3:18-19 18 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. 19 Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. Ezekiel 18:20-21 20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him. 21 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die. Ezekiel 18:23-24 23 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD : and not that he should return from his ways, and live? 24 But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die. Ezekiel 18:27 Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive. Ezekiel 33:8-9 8 When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. 9 Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. Ezekiel 33:11-12 11 Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD , I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel? 12 Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth.

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Ezekiel 33:14-15, 19 14 Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right; 15 If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die. 19 But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby. Do not get into a partnership with a wicked person. Proverbs 11:21 Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered. Final Thoughts Proverbs 15:3 The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good. Proverbs 15:26 The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD : but the words of the pure are pleasant words. Proverbs 16:4 The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil. Proverbs 19:23 The fear of the LORD tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil. Proverbs 20:22 Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD , and he shall save thee.

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Index Of Hebrew And Greek Words In This Study Hebrew Word Page Number Number of pages raàm (raw-am') 70 13 resha` (reh'-shah) 83 18 ½ checed (kheh'-sed) 102 ½ beliyaàl (bel-e-yah'-al) 103 1 evel (eh'-vel); 104 4 ¾ mirshaàth (meer-shah'-ath)

108 ¼

amel (aw-male') 109 1 'aven (aw-ven') 110 7 avval (av-vawl') 117 ½ rasha` (raw-shah') 117 2 ½ kol (kole) 120 ½ raà` (raw-ah') 121 9 mezimmah (mez-im-maw');

130 1 ½

otseb (o'-tseb); 131 ½ zamam (zaw-mawm') 132 ¼ zimmah (zim-maw'); or zammah (zam-maw');

132 2 ¾

'anash (aw-nash'); 135 1 ra` (rah) 136 11 rishàh (rish aw’) 147 2 roa` (ro’-ah) 148 2 amal (aw-mawl’) 150 ½ ^ havvah (hav-vaw'); 151 1 ½ Greek Word poneros (pon-ay-ros'); 153 6 ½ poneroteros (pon-ay-rot'-er-os);

159 ½

kakos (kak-os'); 160 3 ½ anomia (an-om-ee'-ah); 163 1 athesmos (ath'-es-mos); 164 ½ poneria (pon-ay-ree'-ah); 165 1 kakia (kak-ee'-ah); 166 1 atopos (at'-op-os); 167 ½

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Index Of Hebrew And Greek Words In This Study

Hebrew Word Definition raàm (raw-am') a primitive root; to tumble, i.e. be violently agitated;

specifically, to crash (of thunder); figuratively, to irritate (with anger): make to fret, roar, thunder, trouble.

resha` (reh'-shah) a wrong (especially moral): - iniquity, wicked (-ness).

checed (kheh'-sed) kindness; by implication (towards God) piety: rarely (by opposition) reproof, or (subject.) beauty: - favour, good deed (-liness, -ness), kindly, (loving-) kindness, merciful (kindness), mercy, pity, reproach, wicked thing.

beliyaàl (bel-e-yah'-al) without profit, worthlessness; by extension, destruction, wickedness - Belial, evil, naughty, ungodly (men), wicked

evel (eh'-vel) (moral) evil: - iniquity, perverseness, unjust (-ly), unrighteousness (-ly); wicked (-ness).

mirshaàth (meer-shah'-ath)

a female wicked doer: - wicked woman.

amel (aw-male') toiling; concretely, a laborer; figuratively, sorrowful: - that

laboureth, that is a misery, had taken [labour], wicked, workman.

'aven (aw-ven') from an unused root perhaps meaning properly, to pant (hence, to exert oneself, usually in vain; to come to naught); strictly nothingness; also trouble. vanity, wickedness; specifically an idol: - affliction, evil, false, idol, iniquity, mischief, mourners (-ing), naught, sorrow, unjust, unrighteous, vain vanity, wicked (-ness).

avval (av-vawl'); evil (morally): - unjust, unrighteous, wicked. rasha` (raw-shah') a primitive root; to be (causatively, do or declare) wrong; by

implication, to disturb, violate: - condemn, make trouble, vex, be (commit, deal, depart, do) wicked (-ly, -ness).

kol (kole) properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense): - (in) all (manner, [ye]), altogether, any (manner), enough, every (one, place, thing), howsoever, as many as, [no-] thing, ought, whatsoever, (the) whole, whoso (-ever).

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Index Of Hebrew And Greek Words In This Study

Hebrew Word Definition raà` (raw-ah') a primitive root; properly, to spoil (literally, by breaking to pieces);

figuratively, to make (or be) good for nothing, i.e. bad (physically, socially or morally): - afflict, associate selves do harm, (do) hurt, (behaveself, deal) ill, X indeed, do mischief, punish, still, vex, (do) wicked (doer, -ly), be (deal, do) worse.

mezimmah (mez-im-maw');

a plan, usually evil (machination), sometimes good (sagacity): - (wicked) device, discretion, intent, witty invention, lewdness, mischievous (device), thought, wickedly.

otseb (o'-tseb); an idol (as fashioned); also pain (bodily or mental): - idol, sorrow, X wicked.

zamam (zaw-mawm') a plot: - wicked device.

zimmah (zim-maw'); or zammah (zam-maw')

a plan, especially a bad one: - heinous crime, lewd (-ly, -ness), mischief, purpose, thought, wicked (device, mind, -ness).

'anash (aw-nash') a primitive root; to be frail, feeble, or (figuratively) melancholy: - desperate (-ly wicked), incurable, sick, woeful.

ra` (rah) bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral): - adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, + displease (-ure), distress, evil ([-favouredness], man, thing), + exceedingly, X great, grief (-vous), harm, heavy, hurt (-ful), ill (favoured), + mark, mischief (-vous), misery, naught (-ty), noisome, + not please, sad (-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked (-ly, -ness, one), worse (-st), wretchedness, wrong. [Incl. feminine raàh; as adjective or noun.].

rishàh (rish-aw') wrong (especially moral): - fault, wickedly (-ness).

roa` (ro'-ah)

badness (as marring), physically or morally: - X be so bad, badness, (X be so) evil, naughtiness, sadness, sorrow, wickedness.

amal (aw-mawl') toil, i.e. wearing effort; hence, worry, wheth. of body or mind: - grievance (-vousness), iniquity, labour, mischief, miserable (-sery), pain (-ful), perverseness, sorrow, toil, travail, trouble, wearisome, wickedness.

^ havvah (hav-vaw'); (in the sense of eagerly coveting and rushing upon; by implication, of falling); desire; also ruin: - calamity, iniquity, mischief, mischievous (thing), naughtiness, naughty, noisome, perverse thing, substance, very wickedness.

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Index Of Hebrew And Greek Words In This Study Greek Word Definition poneros (pon-ay-ros') figuratively, calamitous; also (passively) ill, i.e.

diseased; but especially (morally) culpable, i.e. derelict, vicious, facinorous; neuter (singular) mischief, malice, or (plural) guilt; masculine (singular) the devil, or (plural) sinners: - bad, evil, grievous, harm, lewd, malicious, wicked (-ness).

poneroteros (pon-ay-rot'-er-os);

more evil: - more wicked

kakos (kak-os'); apparently a primary word; worthless (intrinsically, such; whereas (subjectively) depraved, or (objectively) injurious: - bad, evil, harm, ill, noisome, wicked.

anomia (an-om-ee'-ah) illegality, i.e. violation of law or (genitive case) wickedness: - iniquity, X transgress (-ion of) the law, unrighteousness.

athesmos (ath'-es-mos) lawless, i.e. (by implication) criminal: - wicked.

poneria (pon-ay-ree'-ah); depravity, i.e. (specifically) malice; plural (concretely) plots, sins: - iniquity, wickedness.

kakia (kak-ee'-ah) badness, i.e. (subjectively) depravity, or (actively) malignity, or (passively) trouble: - evil, malice (-iousness), naughtiness, wickedness.

atopos (at'-op-os); out of place, i.e. (figuratively) improper, injurious, wicked: - amiss, harm, unreasonable.

Note: The following word studies are not in any progressive order like some other teachings. These are designed as word studies for your personal study. There is however many insights we hope will benefit you.

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Visible Signs of a Wicked Person

“Thoughts” that lead to actions of a Wicked person.

Hebrew or Greek word Page 1 of 4

Insights into that word or tense of that word.

Visible signs of a Wicked person.

Visible signs of a non-wicked person.

They hide their real thoughts and twist their intent. Job 20:12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;

ra`am This is a Hebrew word for the actions of a wicked person. It is described as wickedness, mischief and evil.

A primitive root; to tumble, i.e. be violently agitated; specifically, to crash (of thunder); figuratively, to irritate (with anger): make to fret, roar, thunder, trouble.

Their life and assets reflect wickedness. Psalms 55:15 Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.

Psalms 101:4 A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person.

Do not think to get in a partnership with a wicked person. Proverbs 11:19 As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.

Proverbs 15:3 The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.

Proverbs 16:17 The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.

The end of the person is a problem. Proverbs 11:19 As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.

Psalms 97:10 Ye that love the LORD , hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.

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Visible Signs of a Wicked Person “Thoughts” that lead to actions of a Wicked person.





A person who thinks like a fool and talks like one hates the thought of getting away from wickedness.

ra`am This is a Hebrew word for the actions of a wicked person. It is described as wickedness, mischief and evil. Page 2 of 4

A primitive root; to tumble, i.e. be violently agitated; specifically, to crash (of thunder); figuratively, to irritate (with anger): make to fret, roar, thunder, trouble

Proverbs 12:21 There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief.

Proverbs 2:12 To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;

Proverbs 13:19 The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.

Proverbs 16:27 An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.

Proverbs 16:17 The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.

Proverbs 17:11 An evil man seeketh only rebellion: therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.

The goal is to hate evil. Proverbs 8:13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.

Proverbs 15:26 The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD : but the words of the pure are pleasant words.

Proverbs 27:12 A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished.

Proverbs 20:8 A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.

Proverbs 21:10 The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes. Proverbs 21:12 The righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked: but God overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness.

Proverbs 14:16 A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident. Proverbs 14:19 The evil bow before the good; and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.

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Proverbs 16:30 He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.



Proverbs 24:16 For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.


Proverbs 26:26 Whose hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be shewed before the whole congregation

Proverbs 28:22He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.

Proverbs 24:20 For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out.

It is possible to minister to others yet in being religious but not christian it is a crisis. Jeremiah 44:5 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods.

Proverbs 16:6 By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil.

Proverbs 28:5 Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all things.

Proverbs 29:6 In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the righteous doth sing and rejoice.

Proverbs 19:23 The fear of the LORD tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil.

Jeremiah 23:11-12 11 For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD . 12 Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the LORD .

Proverbs 20:22 Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD , and he shall save thee. Proverbs 20:22 Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD , and he shall save thee.

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Hosea 7:3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.



Proverbs 22:3 A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.

Proverbs 23:6 Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:

Proverbs 24:1 Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.

Jonah 1:2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.

Isaiah 47:10-11 10 For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me. 11 Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.

Proverbs 28:10 Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession.

Ezekiel 13:22 Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life:

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Job 11:20 But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.

resha` This is a word for the person “who is Wicked.”

A wrong (especially moral): - iniquity, wicked (-ness).

Job 8:22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought

Genesis 18:25 That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

Job 20:5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?

Job 36:17 But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.

Psalms 9:5 Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.

Job 18:5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

Exodus 23:7 Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.

Job 21:7 Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?

Psalms 9:17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.

Psalms 26:5 I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.

Psalms 10:15 Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.

Deuteronomy 25:1-2 1 If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked. 2 And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.

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Job 21:17 How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.

resha` This is a word for the person “who is Wicked.” Psalms 36:1 The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.


Psalms 11:2 For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.

Psalms 1:1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

Psalms 36:11 Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.

Psalms 37:21 The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.

Psalms 34:21 Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.

Psalms 7:9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.

Psalms 10:2-4 2 The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. 3 For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth. 4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.

Psalms 37:16-1716 A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked. 17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD upholdeth the righteous.

Psalms 37:32 The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him. Psalms 94:3 Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?

Psalms 37:10 For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be. Psalms 37:28 For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.

Psalms 32:10 Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the LORD , mercy shall compass him about. Psalms 37:34 Wait on the LORD , and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.

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Psalms 10:13 Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.



The wicked have a problem with righteous arrogance. Psalms 75:4 I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:

Psalms 37:40 And the LORD shall help them and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.

Psalms 28:3 Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.

Psalms 82:2 How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.

Proverbs 3:33 The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just.

Psalms 75:10 All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.

Psalms 71:4 Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man

Psalms 37:12 The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.

Psalms 82:4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.

Proverbs 4:14 Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.

Psalms 106:18 And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked. Psalms 109:2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

Psalms 91:8 Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked. Psalms 97:10 Ye that love the LORD , hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.

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Psalms 112:10 The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.



Proverbs 4:19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.

Psalms 101:8 I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD.

Psalms 140:8 Grant not, O LORD , the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; lest they exalt themselves. Selah.

Psalms 119:61 The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten thy law.

Proverbs 5:22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.

Proverbs 10:6-7 6 Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked. 7 The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.

Psalms 119:119 Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love thy testimonies.

Proverbs 9:7 He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.

Psalms 119:155 Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes.

Proverbs 10:3 The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.

Proverbs 10:11 The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

Psalms 145:20 The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy.

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Proverbs 10:32 The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness.



Proverbs 10:24-25 24 The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted. 25 As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.

Psalms 147:6 The LORD lifteth up the meek: he casteth the wicked down to the ground.

Proverbs 2:22 But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.

Proverbs 10:27 The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

Proverbs 11:5 The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

Proverbs 11:7-8 7 When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perisheth. 8 The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked cometh in his stead.

Proverbs 3:25 Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh.

Proverbs 11:10-11 10 When it goeth well with the righteous, the city rejoiceth: and when the wicked perish, there is shouting. 11 By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.

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Hebrew or Greek word




Headstrong and unbridled lusts hurry men violently to this wicked thing.

Checed

They may not immediately be cut off by the hand either of God or man for this sin, yet the guilt of it shall lie upon them, thus suffer depression.

mercy, pity, reproach, wicked thing.

Leviticus 20:17 And if a man shall take his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it is a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people: he hath uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.

Hosea 4:10 For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the LORD .

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Job 34:18 Is it fit to say to a king, Thou art wicked? and to princes, Ye are ungodly?

beliya`al This is a word for an unreasonable man who thinks just opposite of how God thinks (i.e.) ungodly with evil intent.

without profit, worthlessness; by extension, destruction, wickedness - Belial, evil, naughty, ungodly (men), wicked

Deuteronomy 15:9 Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee.

Psalms 101:3 I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.

Nahum 1:11 There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD , a wicked counsellor.

Proverbs 6:12 A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.

Proverbs 19:28 An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity.

Nahum 1:15 Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off.

1 Samuel 10:27 But the children of Belial said, How shall this man save us? And they despised him, and brought him no presents. But he held his peace.

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Mal 2:6 The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity.

(moral) evil: - iniquity, perverseness, unjust (-ly), unrighteousness (-ly); wicked (-ness).

Psalms 125:3 For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity

Psalms 43:1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

Psalms 64:6 They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.

evel

This is a Hebrew word for iniquity which is a word for setting your heart on other things. Placing your affection on things. Iniquity, covetousness, disloyalty, idolatry and the fear of loss all are similar. These are all things in a wicked man. You go first through iniquity on the way to wickedness.

Psalms 37:1 Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.

Ezekiel 3:20 Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.

Psalms 92:15 To shew that the LORD is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

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2 Chronicles 24:7 For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up the house of God; and also all the dedicated things of the house of the LORD did they bestow upon Baalim.

mirsha`ath A female wicked doer: - wicked woman.

This is a Hebrew word for a woman with wicked intent who handled religious things.

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Proverbs 16:26 He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.

`amel This is a word for difficult labor. Like being strained by a wicked person.

Toiling; concretely, a laborer; figuratively, sorrowful: - that laboureth, that is a misery, had taken [labour], wicked, workman.

Ecclesiastes 2:22 For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 9:9 Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:18 Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.

Job 20:22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him

Ecclesiastes 4:8 There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.

Ecclesiastes 3:9 What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?

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1 Samuel 15:23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD , he hath also rejected thee from being king.

'aven

A word for iniquity. Actually iniquity has 5 primary progressive stages. The end is wickedness and is a perverse heart.

Wickedness; specifically an idol: - affliction, evil, false, idol, iniquity, unjust, unrighteous, vain vanity, wicked (-ness).

Job 31:3 Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?

Psalms 14:4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD .

Job 4:8 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.

Job 15:35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

Psalms 36:12 There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise.

Psalms 41:6 And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.

Psalms 53:4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.

Job 11:14 If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.

Psalms 59:2 Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.

Psalms 94:23 And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the LORD our God shall cut them off.

Proverbs 6:12 A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.

Psalms 66:18 If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:

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Proverbs 6:18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,

'aven

A word for iniquity. Actually iniquity has 5 primary progressive stages. The end is wickedness and is a perverse heart.

Wickedness; specifically an idol: - affliction, evil, false, idol, iniquity, unjust, unrighteous, vain vanity, wicked (-ness).

Proverbs 17:4 A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.

Proverbs 10:29 The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.

Micah 2:1 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Proverbs 22:8 He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.

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Proverbs 21:15 It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.

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Job 29:17 And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.

`avval

Job 27:7 Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.

evil (morally): - unjust, unrighteous, wicked. Job 18:21 Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.

Job 31:3 Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?

Zephaniah 3:5 The just LORD is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.

Proverbs 4:17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

rasha`

Psalms 5:4 For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.

A primitive root; to be (causatively, do or declare) wrong; by implication, to disturb, violate: - condemn, make trouble, vex, be (commit, deal, depart, do) wicked (-ly, -ness).

Psalms 10:15 Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.

Psalms 45:7 Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

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Proverbs 16:12 It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for the throne is established by righteousness.

Proverbs 12:3 A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.

Proverbs 10:2 Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.

Proverbs 8:7 For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

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Fullness of Wickedness

kol Properly, the whole, howsoever, as many as, [no-] thing, ought, whatsoever, (the) whole, whoso (-ever).

Psalms 7:11 God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.

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The advanced act of wickedness (i.e.) evil. Proverbs 17:4 A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.

ra`a`

Psalms 37:1 Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.

A primitive root; properly, to spoil (literally, by breaking to pieces); indeed, do mischief, punish, still, vex, (do) wicked (doer, -ly), be (deal, do) worse.

Psalms 26:5 I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.

Psalms 37:8-9 8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil. 9 For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD , they shall inherit the earth.

Proverbs 4:16 For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.

Proverbs 24:8 He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person.

Proverbs 11:15 He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretiship is sure.

Proverbs 24:19 Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the wicked;

Psalms 64:2 Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:

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An interesting word. It is a Hebrew word for the creative insight of the heart that can be for good or bad.

mezimmah Psalms 10:2 The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

A plan, usually evil (machination), sometimes good (sagacity): - (wicked) device, discretion, intent, witty invention, lewdness, mischievous (device), thought, wickedly.

Job 21:27 Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.

Psalms 37:7 Rest in the LORD , and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.

Psalms 10:4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.

Psalms 21:11 For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.

Proverbs 8:12 I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.

Proverbs 14:17 He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated.

Proverbs 2:11 Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:

Psalms 139:20 For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain.

Proverbs 3:21 My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:

Jeremiah 23:20 The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly.

Jeremiah 30:24 The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have done it, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it.

Proverbs 5:2 That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.

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The tense of the word is the sorrow wickedness brings.

otseb Psalms 139:24 And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

An idol (as fashioned); also pain (bodily or mental): - idol, sorrow, X

wicked.

1 Chronicles 4:9 And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow.

Isaiah 14:3 And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,

A wicked plot.

zamam A plot: - wicked device.


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The evil crookedness of a wicked person ways.

zimmah or zammah

A plan, especially a bad one: - heinous crime, lewd (-ly, -ness), mischief, purpose, thought, wicked (device, mind, -ness).

Job 31:10-11 10. Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her. 11. For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges

Psalms 26:10 In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.

Psalms 119:150 They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from thy law.

Proverbs 10:23 It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.

Proverbs 21:27 The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind?

Proverbs 21:27 The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind?

Proverbs 24:9 The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men.

Isaiah 32:7 The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.

Ezekiel 16:58 Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith the LORD.

Ezekiel 22:9 In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness.

Hosea 6:9 And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.

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An incurable desperate problem.

'anash A primitive root; to be frail, feeble, or (figuratively) melancholy: - desperate (-ly wicked), incurable, sick, woeful.

2 Samuel 12:15 And Nathan departed unto his house. And the LORD struck the child that Uriah's wife bare unto David, and it was very sick.

Job 34:6 Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression.

Isaiah 17:11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

Jeremiah 15:18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?

Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Jeremiah 30:12 For thus saith the LORD , Thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound is grievous.

Jeremiah 17:16 As for me, I have not hastened from being a pastor to follow thee: neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was right before thee.

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Micah 1:9 For her wound is incurable; for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 30:15 Why criest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow is incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity: because thy sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee.

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Genesis 6:5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

ra`

Job 20:12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;

bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral): - adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, + displease (-ure), distress, evil ([-favouredness],

1 Samuel 12:20 And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not: ye have done all this wickedness: yet turn not aside from following the LORD , but serve the LORD with all your heart;


Genesis 13:13 But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.

Job 21:30 That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.


Psalms 55:15 Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.

Psalms 101:4 A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person.

Genesis 38:7 And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD ; and the LORD slew him.

Job 22:5 Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?

Psalms 73:8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.

Proverbs 2:12 To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;

Proverbs 2:14 Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;

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Proverbs 3:7 Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD , and depart from evil.

ra`


Proverbs 4:27 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.

Proverbs 4:14 Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.

Proverbs 6:14 Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.

Proverbs 6:18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief

Proverbs 11:21 Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.

Proverbs 12:20-21 20 Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy. 21 There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief.

Proverbs 13:17 A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.

Proverbs 13:19 The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.

Proverbs 14:19 The evil bow before the good; and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.

Proverbs 14:32 The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.


Proverbs 15:26 The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD : but the words of the pure are pleasant words.

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Proverbs 16:27 An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.

ra`


Proverbs 17:11 An evil man seeketh only rebellion: therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.

Proverbs 22:3 A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.

Proverbs 20:14 It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.

Proverbs 21:10 The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes.

Proverbs 16:4 The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

Proverbs 28:22 He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.

Proverbs 24:16 For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.

Proverbs 23:6 Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:

Proverbs 26:23 Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.

Proverbs 26:26 Whose hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be shewed before the whole congregation.

Proverbs 24:20 For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out.

Proverbs 27:12 A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished.

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Proverbs 11:5 The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

rish`ah wrong (especially moral): - fault, wickedly (-ness).

Ezekiel 18:20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.

Proverbs 13:6 Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.

Zechariah 5:8 And he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.

Ezekiel 18:27 Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.

Malachi 3:15 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.

Malachi 4:1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

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Nehemiah 2:2 Wherefore the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid,

roa`

badness (as marring), physically or morally: - X be so bad, badness, (X be so) evil, naughtiness, sadness, sorrow, wickedness.

Deuteronomy 28:20 The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.

Isaiah 1:16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;

Psalms 28:4 Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert.

Ecclesiastes 7:3 Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.

Isaiah 1:16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;

Jeremiah 23:2 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the LORD .

Jeremiah 23:22 But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.

Jeremiah 26:3 If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.

Jeremiah 29:17 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.

Jeremiah 44:22 So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.

Hosea 9:15 All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters.

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amal grievance (-vousness), iniquity, labour, mischief, miserable (-sery), pain (-ful), perverseness, sorrow, toil, travail, trouble, wearisome, wickedness.


Job 6:30 Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?

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Psalms 5:9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.

havvah (In the sense of eagerly coveting and rushing upon; by implication, of falling); desire; also ruin: - calamity, iniquity, mischief, mischievous (thing), naughtiness, naughty, noisome, perverse thing, substance, very wickedness.

Job 6:2 Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!

Job 6:30 Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?

Psalms 52:2 Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Psalms 38:12 They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.

Psalms 52:7 Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.

Psalms 55:11 Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.

Proverbs 11:6 The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.

Psalms 94:20 Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?

Proverbs 10:3 The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.

Proverbs 17:4 A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.

Proverbs 19:13 A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

Psalms 91:3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.

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Matthew 6:13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

poneros Sinners: - bad, evil, grievous, harm, lewd, malicious, wicked (-ness).

Matthew 6:23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!

Matthew 5:11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

Matthew 12:39 But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:

Matthew 5:39 But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.

Matthew 25:26 His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed

1 Timothy 6:4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

Romans 12:9 Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

1 Corinthians 5:13 But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

Hebrews 3:12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

Ephesians 6:16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.

John 3:19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

1 Thessalonians 5:22 Abstain from all appearance of evil.

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Luke 11:26 Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.

poneroteros

more evil: - more wicked

Matthew 12:45 Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.

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Matthew 21:41 They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons.

kakos apparently a primary word; worthless (intrinsically, such; whereas (subjectively) depraved, or (objectively) injurious: - bad, evil, harm, ill, noisome, wicked.

Romans 1:30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

Acts 28:5 And he shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm.

Mark 7:21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

1 Corinthians 15:33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

Hebrews 5:14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

James 3:8 But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison

1 Thessalonians 5:15 See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.

1 Timothy 6:10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

1 Peter 3:9-12 9 Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing. 10 For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: 11 Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it. 12 For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.

3 John 11 Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.

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2 Thess. 2:8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

anomia illegality, i.e. violation of law or (genitive case) wickedness: - iniquity, X transgress (-ion of) the law, unrighteousness.

Acts 2:23 Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:

Luke 22:37 For I say unto you, that this that is written must yet be accomplished in me, And he was reckoned among the transgressors: for the things concerning me have an end

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1 Timothy 1:9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

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1 Corinthians 9:21 To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.

2 Peter 2:8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)

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athesmos Lawless, i.e. (by implication) criminal: - wicked.

2 Peter 2:7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:

2 Peter 3:17 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.

Mark 7:22-23 22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: 23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.

poneria Depravity, i.e. (specifically) malice; plural (concretely) plots, sins: - iniquity, wickedness.

Romans 1:29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

1 Corinthians 5:8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Luke 11:39 And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.

Matthew 22:18 But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites?

Acts 3:26 Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.

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Ephesians 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

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Matthew 6:34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

kakia Badness, i.e. (subjectively) depravity, or (actively) malignity, or (passively) trouble: - evil, malice (-iousness), naughtiness, wickedness.

Titus 3:3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

Colossians 3:8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

Acts 8:22 Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.

1 Corinthians 14:20 Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.

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Romans 1:29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

1 Peter 2:1 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

1 Corinthians 5:8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

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James 1:21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

Ephesians 4:31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

1 Peter 2:16 As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

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atopos Out of place, i.e. (figuratively) improper, injurious, wicked: - amiss, harm, unreasonable.

2 Thessalonians 3:2 And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not faith.

Luke 23:41 And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss.

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Acts 28:6 Howbeit they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.

Acts 25:5 Let them therefore, said he, which among you are able, go down with me, and accuse this man, if there be any wickedness in him.

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Insights

Hebrew word study OT:7481

OT:7481 <u^r* ra`am (raw-am'); a primitive root; to tumble, i.e. be violently agitated; specifically, to crash (of thunder); figuratively, to irritate (with anger): KJV - make to fret, roar, thunder, trouble. Out of approximately 460 verses below is a sampling.

Genesis 6:5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. Genesis 8:21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. Genesis 13:13 But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly. Genesis 38:7 And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD ; and the LORD slew him. Genesis 39:9 There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God? Deuteronomy 9:18 And I fell down before the LORD , as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD , to provoke him to anger. Deuteronomy 13:5 And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.

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Deuteronomy 13:11 And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you. Deuteronomy 17:1-2 1 Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God any bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, or any evilfavouredness: for that is an abomination unto the LORD thy God. 2 If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant, Deuteronomy 17:5 Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die. Deuteronomy 23:9 When the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep thee from every wicked thing. Judges 9:56-57 56 Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren: 57 And all the evil of the men of Shechem did God render upon their heads: and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal. Judges 20:3 (Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Mizpeh.) Then said the children of Israel, Tell us, how was this wickedness? Judges 20:12-13 12 And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is done among you? 13 Now therefore deliver us the men, the children of Belial, which are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel: 1 Samuel 12:17 Is it not wheat harvest to day? I will call unto the LORD , and he shall send thunder and rain; that ye may perceive and see that your wickedness is great, which ye have done in the sight of the LORD , in asking you a king.

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1 Samuel 12:19-20 19 And all the people said unto Samuel, Pray for thy servants unto the LORD thy God, that we die not: for we have added unto all our sins this evil, to ask us a king. 20 And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not: ye have done all this wickedness: yet turn not aside from following the LORD , but serve the LORD with all your heart; 1 Samuel 25:39 And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the LORD , that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil: for the LORD hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head, And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife. 1 Samuel 30:22 Then answered all the wicked men and men of Belial, of those that went with David, and said, Because they went not with us, we will not give them ought of the spoil that we have recovered, save to every man his wife and his children, that they may lead them away, and depart. 2 Samuel 3:39 And I am this day weak, though anointed king; and these men the sons of Zeruiah be too hard for me: the LORD shall reward the doer of evil according to his wickedness. 1 Kings 1:52 And Solomon said, If he will shew himself a worthy man, there shall not an hair of him fall to the earth: but if wickedness shall be found in him, he shall die. 1 Kings 2:44 The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all the wickedness which thine heart is privy to, that thou didst to David my father: therefore the LORD shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head; 1 Kings 21:25 But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD , whom Jezebel his wife stirred up. 2 Kings 17:11 And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger: 2 Kings 21:6 And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD , to provoke him to anger.

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2 Chronicles 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. Nehemiah 9:35 For they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works. Esther 7:6-7 6 And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen. 7 And the king arising from the banquet of wine in his wrath went into the palace garden: and Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king. Esther 9:25 But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows. Job 20:12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue; Job 21:30 That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath. Job 22:5 Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite? Psalms 7:9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins. Psalms 55:15 Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them. Psalms 73:8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily. Psalms 94:23 And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the LORD our God shall cut them off.

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Psalms 97:10 Ye that love the LORD , hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked. Psalms 101:4 A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person. Psalms 107:26 They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble. Psalms 107:34 A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein. Proverbs 1:16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. Proverbs 1:33 But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil. Proverbs 2:12 To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things; Proverbs 2:14 Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked; Proverbs 3:7 Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD , and depart from evil. Proverbs 3:29-30 29 Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth securely by thee. 30 Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm. Proverbs 4:14 Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. Proverbs 4:27 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil. Proverbs 5:14 I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly. Proverbs 6:14 Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.

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Proverbs 6:18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, Proverbs 6:24 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman. Proverbs 8:13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. Proverbs 11:19 As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death. Proverbs 11:21 Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered. Proverbs 11:27 He that diligently seeketh good procureth favour: but he that seeketh mischief, it shall come unto him. Proverbs 12:12-13 12 The wicked desireth the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit. 13 The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble. Proverbs 12:20-21 20 Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy. 21 There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief. Proverbs 13:17 A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health. Proverbs 13:19 The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil. Proverbs 13:21 Evil pursueth sinners: but to the righteous good shall be repayed. Proverbs 14:16 A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident. Proverbs 14:19 The evil bow before the good; and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.

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Proverbs 14:22 Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good. Proverbs 14:32 The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death. Proverbs 15:3 The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good. Proverbs 15:10 Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die. Proverbs 15:15 All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast. Proverbs 15:26 The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD : but the words of the pure are pleasant words. Proverbs 15:28 The heart of the righteous studieth to answer: but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things. Proverbs 16:4 The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil. Proverbs 16:6 By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil. Proverbs 16:17 The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul. Proverbs 16:27 An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire. Proverbs 16:30 He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass. Proverbs 17:11 An evil man seeketh only rebellion: therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him. Proverbs 17:13 Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

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Proverbs 17:20 He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief. Proverbs 19:23 The fear of the LORD tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil. Proverbs 20:8 A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes. Proverbs 20:14 It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth. Proverbs 20:22 Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD , and he shall save thee. Proverbs 20:30 The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly. Proverbs 21:10 The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes. Proverbs 21:12 The righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked: but God overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness. Proverbs 22:3 A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished. Proverbs 23:6 Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats: Proverbs 24:1 Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them. Proverbs 24:16 For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief. Proverbs 24:20 For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out.

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Proverbs 25:20 As he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to an heavy heart. Proverbs 26:23 Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross. Proverbs 26:26 Whose hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be shewed before the whole congregation. Proverbs 27:12 A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished. Proverbs 28:5 Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all things. Proverbs 28:10 Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession. Proverbs 28:14 Happy is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief. Proverbs 28:22 He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him. Proverbs 29:6 In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the righteous doth sing and rejoice. Proverbs 31:12 She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. Ecclesiastics 7:14-15 14 In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him. 15 All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.

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Isaiah 47:10-11 10 For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me. 11 Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know. Jeremiah 1:16 And I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands. Jeremiah 2:33 Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways. Jeremiah 3:2 Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness. Jeremiah 4:14 O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee? Jeremiah 4:18 Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart. Jeremiah 5:28 They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge. Jeremiah 6:7 As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds. Jeremiah 6:29 The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away. Jeremiah 7:12 But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.

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Jeremiah 8:6 I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle. Jeremiah 12:4 How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end. Jeremiah 14:16 And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness upon them. Jeremiah 15:21 And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible. Jeremiah 22:22 The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness. Jeremiah 23:10-12 10 For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right. 11 For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD . 12 Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the LORD . Jeremiah 23:14 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah. Jeremiah 33:5 They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but it is to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in mine anger and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city.

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Jeremiah 44:2-3 2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Ye have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Judah; and, behold, this day they are a desolation, and no man dwelleth therein, 3 Because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, and to serve other gods, whom they knew not, neither they, ye, nor your fathers. Jeremiah 44:5 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods. Jeremiah 44:9 Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they have committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem? Lamentation 1:21-22 21 They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me. 22 Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint. Ezekiel 8:9 And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here. Ezekiel 11:2 Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city: Ezekiel 13:22 Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life: Ezekiel 16:23 And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith the Lord GOD ;) Ezekiel 16:57 Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of thy reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all that are round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, which despise thee round about.

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Ezekiel 20:43-44 43 And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein ye have been defiled; and ye shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed. 44 And ye shall know that I am the LORD , when I have wrought with you for my name's sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, O ye house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD . Ezekiel 30:12 And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have spoken it. Hosea 7:1-3 1 When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without. 2 And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face. 3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. Hosea 9:15 All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters. Hosea 10:15 So shall Bethel do unto you because of your great wickedness: in a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off. Jonah 1:2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me. Nahum 3:19 There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?

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OT:7563 OT:7562 uv^r# resha` (reh'-shah); from OT:7561; a wrong (especially moral): KJV - iniquity, wicked (-ness).

Genesis 18:23 And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked? Genesis 18:25 That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? Exodus 2:13 And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow? Exodus 9:27 And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said unto them, I have sinned this time: the LORD is righteous, and I and my people are wicked. Exodus 23:1 Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. Exodus 23:7 Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked. Numbers 16:26 And he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be consumed in all their sins. Numbers 35:31 Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death. Deuteronomy 25:1-2 1 If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked. 2 And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.

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1 Samuel 2:9 He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail. 2 Samuel 4:11 How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth? 1 Kings 8:32 Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness. 2 Chronicles 6:23 Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness. 2 Chronicles 19:2 And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD ? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the LORD . Job 3:17 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. Job 8:22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought. Job 9:22 This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked. Job 9:24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he? Job 10:3 Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked? Job 11:20 But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.

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Job 15:20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor. Job 16:11 God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked. Job 18:5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine. Job 20:5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? Job 20:29 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God. Job 21:7 Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? Job 21:16-17 16 Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me. 17 How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger. Job 21:28 For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked? Job 22:18 Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me. Job 24:6 They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked. Job 27:7 Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous. Job 27:13 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty. Job 34:18 Is it fit to say to a king, Thou art wicked? and to princes, Ye are ungodly?

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Job 34:26 He striketh them as wicked men in the open sight of others; Job 36:6 He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor. Job 36:17 But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee. Job 38:13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it? Job 38:15 And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken. Job 40:12 Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place. Psalms 1:1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. Psalms 1:4-6 4 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. 5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. 6 For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish. Psalms 3:7 Arise, O LORD ; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly. Psalms 7:9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins. Psalms 9:5 Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.

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Psalms 9:16-17 16 The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah. 17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God. Psalms 10:2-4 2 The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. 3 For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth. 4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts. Psalms 10:13 Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it. Psalms 10:15 Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none. Psalms 11:2 For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart. Psalms 11:5-6 5 The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth. 6 Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup. Psalms 12:8 The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted. Psalms 17:13 Arise, O LORD , disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword: Psalms 26:5 I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked. Psalms 28:3 Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.

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Psalms 31:17 Let me not be ashamed, O LORD ; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave. Psalms 32:10 Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the LORD , mercy shall compass him about. Psalms 34:21 Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate. Psalms 36:1 The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes. Psalms 36:11 Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me. Psalms 37:10 For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be. Psalms 37:12 The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth. Psalms 37:14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation. Psalms 37:16-17 16 A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked. 17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD upholdeth the righteous. Psalms 37:20-21 20 But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away. 21 The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth. Psalms 37:28 For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off. Psalms 37:32 The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.

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Psalms 37:34-35 34 Wait on the LORD , and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it. 35 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. Psalms 37:38 But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off. Psalms 37:40 And the LORD shall help them and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him. Psalms 39:1 I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me. Psalms 50:16 But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth? Psalms 55:3 Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me. Psalms 58:3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies. Psalms 58:10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. Psalms 68:2 As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God. Psalms 71:4 Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man. Psalms 73:3 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. Psalms 73:12 Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.

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Psalms 75:4 I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn: Psalms 75:8 For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them. Psalms 75:10 All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted. Psalms 82:2 How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah. Psalms 82:4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked. Psalms 91:8 Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked. Psalms 92:7 When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever: Psalms 94:3 Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph? Psalms 94:13 That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked. Psalms 97:10 Ye that love the LORD , hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked. Psalms 101:8 I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD . Psalms 104:35 Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless thou the LORD , O my soul. Praise ye the LORD . Psalms 106:18 And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.

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Psalms 109:2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue. Psalms 109:6-7 6 Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand. 7 When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin. Psalms 112:10 The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish. Psalms 119:53 Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law. Psalms 119:61 The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten thy law. Psalms 119:95 The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies. Psalms 119:110 The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts. Psalms 119:119 Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love thy testimonies. Psalms 119:155 Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes. Psalms 129:4 The LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked. Psalms 139:19 Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men. Psalms 140:4 Keep me, O LORD , from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings. Psalms 140:8 Grant not, O LORD , the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; lest they exalt themselves. Selah.

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Psalms 141:10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal escape. Psalms 145:20 The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy. Psalms 146:9 The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down. Psalms 147:6 The LORD lifteth up the meek: he casteth the wicked down to the ground. Proverbs 2:22 But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it. Proverbs 3:25 Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh. Proverbs 3:33 The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just. Proverbs 4:14 Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. Proverbs 4:19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble. Proverbs 5:22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. Proverbs 9:7 He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot. Proverbs 10:3 The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked. Proverbs 10:6-7 6 Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked. 7 The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.

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Proverbs 10:11 The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked. Proverbs 10:16 The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin. Proverbs 10:20 The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth. Proverbs 10:24-25 24 The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted. 25 As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation. Proverbs 10:27-30 27 The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened. 28 The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish. 29 The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity. 30 The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth. Proverbs 10:32 The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness. Proverbs 11:5 The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness. Proverbs 11:7-8 7 When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perisheth. 8 The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked cometh in his stead. Proverbs 11:10-11 10 When it goeth well with the righteous, the city rejoiceth: and when the wicked perish, there is shouting. 11 By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.

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Proverbs 11:18 The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward. Proverbs 11:23 The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath. Proverbs 11:31 Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner. Proverbs 12:5-7 5 The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit. 6 The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. 7 The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand. Proverbs 12:10 A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel. Proverbs 12:12 The wicked desireth the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit. Proverbs 12:21 There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief. Proverbs 12:26 The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them. Proverbs 13:5 A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame. Proverbs 13:9 The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out. Proverbs 13:17 A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health. Proverbs 13:25 The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul: but the belly of the wicked shall want. Proverbs 14:11 The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.

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Proverbs 14:19 The evil bow before the good; and the wicked at the gates of the righteous. Proverbs 14:32 The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death. Proverbs 15:6 In the house of the righteous is much treasure: but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble. Proverbs 15:8-9 8 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD : but the prayer of the upright is his delight. 9 The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the LORD : but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness. Proverbs 15:28-29 28 The heart of the righteous studieth to answer: but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things. 29 The LORD is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous. Proverbs 16:4 The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil. Proverbs 17:15 He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD . Proverbs 17:23 A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment. Proverbs 18:3 When the wicked cometh, then cometh also contempt, and with ignominy reproach. Proverbs 18:5 It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment. Proverbs 19:28 An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity. Proverbs 20:26 A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them. Proverbs 21:4 An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.

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Proverbs 21:7 The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment. Proverbs 21:10 The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes. Proverbs 21:12 The righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked: but God overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness. Proverbs 21:18 The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright. Proverbs 21:27 The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind? Proverbs 21:29 A wicked man hardeneth his face: but as for the upright, he directeth his way. Proverbs 24:15-16 15 Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place: 16 For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief. Proverbs 24:19-20 19 Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the wicked; 20 For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out. Proverbs 24:24 He that saith unto the wicked, Thou are righteous; him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor him: Proverbs 25:5 Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness. Proverbs 25:26 A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring. Proverbs 28:1 The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.

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Proverbs 28:4 They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them. Proverbs 28:12 When righteous men do rejoice, there is great glory: but when the wicked rise, a man is hidden. Proverbs 28:15 As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people. Proverbs 28:28 When the wicked rise, men hide themselves: but when they perish, the righteous increase. Proverbs 29:2 When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn. Proverbs 29:7 The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it. Proverbs 29:12 If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked. Proverbs 29:16 When the wicked are multiplied, transgression increaseth: but the righteous shall see their fall. Proverbs 29:27 An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked. Ecclesiastes 3:17 I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work. Ecclesiastes 7:15 All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness. Ecclesiastes 8:10 And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.

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Ecclesiastes 8:13-14 13 But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God. 14 There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity. Ecclesiastes 9:2 All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath. Isaiah 3:11 Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him. Isaiah 5:23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him! Isaiah 11:4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. Isaiah 13:11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. Isaiah 14:5 The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers. Isaiah 26:10 Let favour be shewed 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 . Isaiah 48:22 There is no peace, saith the LORD , unto the wicked. Isaiah 53:9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.

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Isaiah 55:7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD , and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. Isaiah 57:20-21 20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. 21 There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked. Jeremiah 5:26 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men. Jeremiah 12:1 Righteous art thou, O LORD , when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously? Jeremiah 23:19 Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked. Jeremiah 25:31 A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the LORD hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith the LORD . Jeremiah 30:23 Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD goeth forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked. Ezekiel 3:18-19 18 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. 19 Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. Ezekiel 7:21 And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.

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Ezekiel 13:22 Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life: Ezekiel 18:20-21 20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him. 21 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die. Ezekiel 18:23-24 23 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD : and not that he should return from his ways, and live? 24 But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die. Ezekiel 18:27 Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive. Ezekiel 21:3-4 3 And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the LORD ; Behold, I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked. 4 Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against all flesh from the south to the north: Ezekiel 21:25 And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end, Ezekiel 21:29 Whiles they see vanity unto thee, whiles they divine a lie unto thee, to bring thee upon the necks of them that are slain, of the wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity shall have an end.

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Ezekiel 33:8-9 8 When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. 9 Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. Ezekiel 33:11-12 11 Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD , I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel? 12 Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth. Ezekiel 33:14-15 14 Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right; 15 If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die. Ezekiel 33:19 But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby. Daniel 12:10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand. Micah 6:10 Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable? Habakkuk 1:4 Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth. Habakkuk 1:13 Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?

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Habakkuk 3:13 Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah. Zephaniah 1:3 I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD . Malachi 3:18 Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not. Malachi 4:3 And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts. OT:2617

OT:2617 ds#j# checed (kheh'-sed); from OT:2616; kindness; by implication (towards God) piety: rarely (by opposition) reproof, or (subject.) beauty: KJV - favour, good deed (-liness, -ness), kindly, (loving-) kindness, merciful (kindness), mercy, pity, reproach, wicked thing. Out of approximately 200 verses only one is translated wicked.

Leviticus 20:17 And if a man shall take his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it is a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people: he hath uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.

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OT:1100 OT:1100 lu^Y^l!B= beliya`al (bel-e-yah'-al); from OT:1097 and OT:3276; without profit, worthlessness; by extension, destruction, wickedness (often in connection with OT:376, OT:802, OT:1121, etc.): KJV - Belial, evil, naughty, ungodly (men), wicked. 15 times translated Belial I gave one example

Deuteronomy 15:9 Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee. 1 Samuel 10:27 But the children of Belial said, How shall this man save us? And they despised him, and brought him no presents. But he held his peace. 2 Samuel 22:5 When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid; Job 34:18 Is it fit to say to a king, Thou art wicked? and to princes, Ye are ungodly? Psalms 18:4 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. Psalms 101:3 I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me. Proverbs 6:12 A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth. Proverbs 16:27 An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire. Proverbs 19:28 An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity. Nahum 1:11 There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD , a wicked counsellor.

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Nahum 1:15 Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off. OT:5766

OT:5766 lw#u# evel (eh'-vel); or àvel (aw'-vel); and (feminine) àvlah (av-law'); or òwlah (o-law'); or òlah (o-law'); from OT:5765; (moral) evil: KJV - iniquity, perverseness, unjust (-ly), unrighteousness (-ly); wicked (-ness).

Leviticus 19:15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour. Levitcus 19:35 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure. Deuteronomy 25:16 For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God. Deuteronomy 32:4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he. 2 Samuel 3:34 Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters: as a man falleth before wicked men, so fellest thou. And all the people wept again over him. 2 Samuel 7:10 Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as beforetime,

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1 Chronicles 17:9 Also I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the beginning, 2 Chronicles 19:7 Wherefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts. Job 5:16 So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth. Job 6:29-30 29 Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it. 30 Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things? Job 11:14 If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles. Job 13:7 Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him? Job 15:16 How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water? Job 22:23 If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles. Job 24:20 The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree. Job 27:4 My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit. Job 34:10 Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity. Job 34:32 That which I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more. Job 36:23 Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity?

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Psalms 7:3 O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands; Psalms 37:1 Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity. Psalms 43:1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man. Psalms 53:1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good. Psalms 58:2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth. Psalms 64:6 They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep. Psalms 82:2 How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah. Psalms 89:22 The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him. Psalms 92:15 To shew that the LORD is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him. Psalms 107:42 The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth. Psalms 119:3 They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways. Psalms 125:3 For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity. Proverbs 22:8 He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.

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Proverbs 29:27 An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked. Isaiah 59:3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. Jeremiah 2:5 Thus saith the LORD , What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain? Ezekiel 3:20 Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand. Ezekiel 18:8 He that hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken any increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true judgment between man and man, Ezek 18:24 But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die. Ezekiel 18:26 When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die. Ezekiel 28:15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. Ezekiel 28:18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee. Ezekiel 33:13 When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it.

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Ezekiel 33:15 If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die. Ezekiel 33:18 When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby. Hosea 10:13 Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men. Micah 3:10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. Habakkuk 2:12 Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity! Zephaniah 3:5 The just LORD is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame. Zephaniah 3:13 The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid. Mal 2:6 The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity. OT:4849

OT:4849 tu^v^r=m! mirsha`ath (meer-shah'-ath); from OT:7561; a female wicked doer: KJV - wicked woman.

2 Chronicles 24:7 For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up the house of God; and also all the dedicated things of the house of the LORD did they bestow upon Baalim.

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OT:6001 lm@u* amel (aw-male'); from OT:5998; toiling; concretely, a laborer; figuratively, sorrowful: KJV - that laboureth, that is a misery, had taken [labour], wicked, workman.

Judges 5:26 She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples. Job 3:20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; Job 20:22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him. Proverbs 16:26 He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him. Ecclesiastes 2:18 Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me. Ecclesiastes 2:22 For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun? Ecclesiastes 3:9 What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth? Ecclesiastes 4:8 There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail. Ecclesiastes 9:9 Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.

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OT:205 /w#a* 'aven (aw-ven'); from an unused root perhaps meaning properly, to pant (hence, to exert oneself, usually in vain; to come to naught); strictly nothingness; also trouble. vanity, wickedness; specifically an idol: KJV - affliction, evil, false, idol, iniquity, mischief, mourners (-ing), naught, sorrow, unjust, unrighteous, vain vanity, wicked (-ness). Compare OT:369.

Numbers 23:21 He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the LORD his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them. Deuteronomy 26:14 I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought thereof for the dead: but I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me. 1 Samuel 15:23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD , he hath also rejected thee from being king. Job 4:8 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same. Job 5:6 Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; Job 11:11 For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it? Job 11:14 If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles. Job 15:35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit. Job 21:19 God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.

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Job 22:15 Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden? Job 31:3 Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity? Job 34:8 Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men. Job 34:22 There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves. Job 34:36 My desire is that Job may be tried unto the end because of his answers for wicked men. Job 36:10 He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity. Job 36:21 Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction. Psalms 5:5 The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity. Psalms 6:8 Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping. Psalms 7:14 Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood. Psalms 10:7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity. Psalms 14:4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD . Psalms 28:3 Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.

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Psalms 36:3-4 3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good. 4 He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil. Psalms 36:12 There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise. Psalms 41:6 And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it. Psalms 53:4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God. Psalms 55:3 Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me. Psalms 55:10 Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it. Psalms 56:7 Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down the people, O God. Psalms 59:2 Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men. Psalms 59:5 Thou therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah. Psalms 66:18 If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me: Psalms 90:10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

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Psalms 92:7 When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever: Psalms 92:9 For, lo, thine enemies, O LORD , for, lo, thine enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered. Psalms 94:4 How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves? Psalms 94:16 Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity? Psalms 94:23 And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the LORD our God shall cut them off. Psalms 101:8 I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD . Psalms 119:133 Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me. Psalms 125:5 As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel. Psalms 141:4 Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties. Psalms 141:9 Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity. Proverbs 6:12 A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth. Proverbs 6:18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,

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Proverbs 10:29 The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity. Proverbs 11:7 When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perisheth. Proverbs 12:21 There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief. Proverbs 17:4 A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue. Proverbs 19:28 An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity. Proverbs 21:15 It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity. Proverbs 22:8 He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail. Proverbs 30:20 Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness. Isaiah 1:13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. Isaiah 10:1 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed; Isaiah 29:20 For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off: Isaiah 31:2 Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.

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Isaiah 32:6 For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD , to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail. Isaiah 41:29 Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion. Isaiah 55:7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD , and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. Isaiah 58:9 Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity; Isaiah 59:4 None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. Isaiah 59:6-7 6 Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands. 7 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. Isaiah 66:3 He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations. Jeremiah 4:14-15 14 O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee? 15 For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from mount Ephraim. Ezekiel 11:2 Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city:

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Hosea 6:8 Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood. Hosea 9:4 They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD , neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD . Hosea 10:8 The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us. Hosea 12:11 Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields. Amos 5:5 But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought. Micah 2:1 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand. Habakkuk 1:3 Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention. Habakkuk 3:7 I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble. Zechariah 10:2 For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd.

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OT:5767 OT:5767 lW*u^ avval (av-vawl'); intensive from OT:5765; evil (morally): KJV - unjust, unrighteous, wicked.

Job 18:21 Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God. Job 27:7 Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous. Job 29:17 And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth. Job 31:3 Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity? Zephaniah 3:5 The just LORD is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.

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OT:7561 uv^r* rasha` (raw-shah'); a primitive root; to be (causatively, do or declare) wrong; by implication, to disturb, violate: KJV - condemn, make trouble, vex, be (commit, deal, depart, do) wicked (-ly, -ness).

Deuteronomy 9:27 Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin: 1 Samuel 24:13 As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee. Job 34:8 Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.

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Job 34:10 Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity. Job 35:8 Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man. Psalms 5:4 For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee. Psalms 10:15 Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none. Psalms 45:7 Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. Psalms 84:10 For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. Psalms 125:3 For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity. Psalms 141:4 Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties. Proverbs 4:17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence. Proverbs 8:7 For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips. Proverbs 10:2 Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death. Proverbs 12:3 A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.

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Proverbs 16:12 It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for the throne is established by righteousness. Ecclesiastes 3:16 And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there. Ecclesiastes 7:25 I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness: Ecclesiastes 8:8 There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it. Isaiah 58:4 Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high. Isaiah 58:6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? Jeremiah 14:20 We acknowledge, O LORD , our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee. Ezekiel 3:19 Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. Ezekiel 7:11 Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither shall there be wailing for them. Ezekiel 31:11 I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness.

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Ezekiel 33:12 Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth. Hosea 10:13 Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men. Micah 6:10-11 10 Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable? 11 Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights? OT:3605

OT:3605 lK) kol (kole); or (Jer 33:8) kowl (kole); from OT:3634; properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense): KJV - (in) all (manner, [ye]), altogether, any (manner), enough, every (one, place, thing), howsoever, as many as, [no-] thing, ought, whatsoever, (the) whole, whoso (-ever). Out of about 500 verses only one is translated wicked.

Psalms 7:11 God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.

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OT:7489 OT:7489 uu^r* ra`a` (raw-ah'); a primitive root; properly, to spoil (literally, by breaking to pieces); figuratively, to make (or be) good for nothing, i.e. bad (physically, socially or morally): KJV - afflict, associate selves [by mistake for OT:7462], break (down, in pieces), + displease, (be, bring, do) evil (doer, entreat, man), showself friendly [by mistake for OT:7462], do harm, (do) hurt, (behaveself, deal) ill, X indeed, do mischief, punish, still, vex, (do) wicked (doer, -ly), be (deal, do) worse.

Genesis 19:7 And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly. Genesis 19:9 And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door. Genesis 21:11-12 11 And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son. 12 And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called. Genesis 31:7 And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me. Genesis 38:10 And the thing which he did displeased the LORD : wherefore he slew him also. Genesis 43:6 And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother? Genesis 44:5 Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.

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Exodus 5:22-23 22 And Moses returned unto the LORD , and said, Lord, wherefore hast thou so evil entreated this people? why is it that thou hast sent me? 23 For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he hath done evil to this people; neither hast thou delivered thy people at all. Leviticus 5:4 Or if a soul swear, pronouncing with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatsoever it be that a man shall pronounce with an oath, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty in one of these. Numbers 11:11 And Moses said unto the LORD , Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favour in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me? Numbers 16:15 And Moses was very wroth, and said unto the LORD , Respect not thou their offering: I have not taken one ass from them, neither have I hurt one of them. Numbers 20:15 How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers: Deuteronomy 15:9-10 9 Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee. 10 Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto. Deuteronomy 26:6 And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage: Deuteronomy 28:54 So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave: Deuteronomy 28:56 The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

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Joshua 24:20 If ye forsake the LORD , and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good. Judges 19:23 And the man, the master of the house, went out unto them, Nay, my brethren, nay, I pray you, do not so wickedly; seeing that this man is come into mine house, do not this folly. Ruth 1:21 I went out full, and the LORD hath brought me home again empty: why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me? 1 Samuel 1:8 Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am not I better to thee than ten sons? 1 Samuel 8:6 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD . 1 Samuel 12:25 But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both ye and your king. 1 Samuel 18:8 And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom? 1 Samuel 25:34 For in very deed, as the LORD God of Israel liveth, which hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall. 1 Samuel 26:21 Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son David: for I will no more do thee harm, because my soul was precious in thine eyes this day: behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly. 2 Samuel 11:25 Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as another: make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage thou him.

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2 Samuel 11:27 And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD . 1 Kings 14:9 But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back: 1 Kings 16:25 But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the LORD , and did worse than all that were before him. 1 Kings 17:20 And he cried unto the LORD , and said, O LORD my God, hast thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son? 2 Kings 21:11 Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols: 1 Chronicles 16:22 Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm. 1 Chronicles 21:7 And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel. 1 Chronicles 21:17 And David said unto God, Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed; but as for these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, O LORD my God, be on me, and on my father's house; but not on thy people, that they should be plagued. Nehemiah 2:3 And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire? Nehemiah 2:10 When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.

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Nehemiah 13:8 And it grieved me sore: therefore I cast forth all the household stuff of Tobiah out of the chamber. Job 8:20 Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers: Job 34:24 He shall break in pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their stead. Psalms 2:9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. Psalms 15:4 In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD . He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not. Psalms 22:16 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. Psalms 26:5 I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked. Psalms 27:2 When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. Psalms 37:1 Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity. Psalms 37:8-9 8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil. 9 For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD , they shall inherit the earth. Psalms 44:2 How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out. Psalms 64:2 Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:

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Psalms 74:3 Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary. Psalms 92:11 Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine enemies, and mine ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against me. Psalms 94:16 Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity? Psalms 105:15 Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm. Psalms 119:115 Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God. Proverbs 4:16 For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall. Proverbs 11:15 He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretiship is sure. Proverbs 17:4 A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue. Proverbs 18:24 A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. Proverbs 24:8 He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person. Proverbs 24:19 Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the wicked; Isaiah 1:4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD , they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.

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Isaiah 1:16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; Isaiah 8:9 Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces. Isaiah 9:17 Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. Isaiah 11:9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD , as the waters cover the sea. Isaiah 14:20 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned. Isaiah 24:19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly. Isaiah 31:2 Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity. Isaiah 41:23 Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together. Isaiah 65:25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD . Jeremiah 4:22 For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

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Jeremiah 7:26 Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers. Jeremiah 10:5 They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good. Jeremiah 11:16 The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken. Jeremiah 13:23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil. Jeremiah 15:12 Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel? Jeremiah 16:12 And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me: Jeremiah 20:13 Sing unto the LORD , praise ye the LORD : for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers. Jeremiah 23:14 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah. Jeremiah 25:6 And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt. Jeremiah 25:29 For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the LORD of hosts.

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Jeremiah 31:28 And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith the LORD . Jeremiah 38:9 My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for there is no more bread in the city. Jeremiah 40:4 And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the chains which were upon thine hand. If it seem good unto thee to come with me into Babylon, come; and I will look well unto thee: but if it seem ill unto thee to come with me into Babylon, forbear: behold, all the land is before thee: whither it seemeth good and convenient for thee to go, thither go. Micah 3:4 Then shall they cry unto the LORD , but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings. Micah 4:6 In that day, saith the LORD , will I assemble her that halteth, and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted; Micah 5:6 And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders. Zephaniah 1:12 And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees: that say in their heart, The LORD will not do good, neither will he do evil. Zechariah 8:14 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the LORD of hosts, and I repented not:

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OT:4209 OT:4209 hM*z!m= mezimmah (mez-im-maw'); from OT:2161; a plan, usually evil (machination), sometimes good (sagacity): KJV - (wicked) device, discretion, intent, witty invention, lewdness, mischievous (device), thought, wickedly.

Job 21:27 Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me. Job 42:2 I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee. Psalms 10:2 The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. Psalms 10:4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts. Psalms 21:11 For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform. Psalms 37:7 Rest in the LORD , and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass. Psalms 139:20 For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain. Proverbs 1:4 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion. Proverbs 2:11 Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee: Proverbs 3:21 My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion: Proverbs 5:2 That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.

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Proverbs 8:12 I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions. Proverbs 12:2 A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD : but a man of wicked devices will he condemn. Proverbs 14:17 He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated. Proverbs 24:8 He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person. Jeremiah 11:15 What hath my beloved to do in mine house, seeing she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest. Jeremiah 23:20 The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly. Jeremiah 30:24 The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have done it, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it. Jeremiah 51:11 Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD , the vengeance of his temple. OT:6090

OT:6090 bx#u) otseb (o'-tseb); a variation of OT:6089; an idol (as fashioned); also pain (bodily or mental): KJV - idol, sorrow, X wicked.

1 Chronicles 4:9 And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow. Psalms 139:24 And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

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Isaiah 14:3 And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve, OT:2162

OT:2162 <m*z* zamam (zaw-mawm'); from OT:2161; a plot: KJV - wicked device.


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OT:2154 hM*z! zimmah (zim-maw'); or zammah (zam-maw'); from OT:2161; a plan, especially a bad one: KJV - heinous crime, lewd (-ly, -ness), mischief, purpose, thought, wicked (device, mind, -ness).

Leviticus 18:17 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, neither shalt thou take her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; for they are her near kinswomen: it is wickedness. Leviticus 19:29 Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness. Leviticus 20:14 And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you. Judges 20:6 And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel: for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel. Job 17:11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.

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Job 31:10-11 10. Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her. 11. For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges. Psalms 26:10 In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes. Psalms 119:150 They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from thy law. Proverbs 10:23 It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom. Proverbs 21:27 The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind? Proverbs 24:9 The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men. Isaiah 32:7 The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right. Jeremiah 13:27 I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be? Ezekiel 16:27 Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way. Ezekiel 16:43 Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore I also will recompense thy way upon thine head, saith the Lord GOD : and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations. Ezekiel 16:58 Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith the LORD . Ezekiel 22:9 In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness.

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Ezekiel 22:11 And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter. Ezekiel 23:21 Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth. Ezekiel 23:27 Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom brought from the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more. Ezekiel 23:29 And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms. Ezekiel 23:35 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD ; Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms. Ezekiel 23:44 Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that playeth the harlot: so went they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd women. Ezekiel 23:48-49 48 Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness. 49 And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of your idols: and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD . Ezekiel 24:13 In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee. Hosea 6:9 And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.

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OT:605 vn^a* 'anash (aw-nash'); a primitive root; to be frail, feeble, or (figuratively) melancholy: KJV - desperate (-ly wicked), incurable, sick, woeful.

2 Samuel 12:15 And Nathan departed unto his house. And the LORD struck the child that Uriah's wife bare unto David, and it was very sick. Job 34:6 Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression. Isaiah 17:11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow. Jeremiah 15:18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail? Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? Jeremiah 17:16 As for me, I have not hastened from being a pastor to follow thee: neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was right before thee. Jeremiah 30:12 For thus saith the LORD , Thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound is grievous. Jeremiah 30:15 Why criest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow is incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity: because thy sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee. Micah 1:9 For her wound is incurable; for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

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OT:7451 ur^ ra` (rah); from OT:7489; bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral): KJV - adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, + displease (-ure), distress, evil ([-favouredness], man, thing), + exceedingly, X great, grief (-vous), harm, heavy, hurt (-ful), ill (favoured), + mark, mischief (-vous), misery, naught (-ty), noisome, + not please, sad (-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked (-ly, -ness, one), worse (-st), wretchedness, wrong. [Incl. feminine ra`ah; as adjective or noun.].

Genesis 6:5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. Genesis 13:13 But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly. Genesis 38:7 And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD ; and the LORD slew him. Genesis 39:9 There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God? Deuteronomy 9:18 And I fell down before the LORD , as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD , to provoke him to anger. Deuteronomy 13:11 And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you. Deuteronomy 17:2 If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant, Deuteronomy 17:5 Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.

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Deuteronomy 23:9 When the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep thee from every wicked thing. Judges 9:56-57 56 Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren: 57 And all the evil of the men of Shechem did God render upon their heads: and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal. Judges 20:3 (Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Mizpeh.) Then said the children of Israel, Tell us, how was this wickedness? Judges 20:12-13 12 And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is done among you? 13 Now therefore deliver us the men, the children of Belial, which are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel: 1 Samuel 12:17 Is it not wheat harvest to day? I will call unto the LORD , and he shall send thunder and rain; that ye may perceive and see that your wickedness is great, which ye have done in the sight of the LORD , in asking you a king. 1 Samuel 12:20 And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not: ye have done all this wickedness: yet turn not aside from following the LORD , but serve the LORD with all your heart; 1 Samuel 25:39 And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the LORD , that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil: for the LORD hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head, And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife. 1 Kings 2:44 The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all the wickedness which thine heart is privy to, that thou didst to David my father: therefore the LORD shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head; 1 Kings 21:25 But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD , whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.

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2 Kings 17:11 And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger: 2 Kings 21:6 And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD , to provoke him to anger. 2 Chronicles 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. Nehemiah 9:35 For they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works. Esther 9:25 But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows. Esther7:6 And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen. Job 20:12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue; Job 21:30 That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath. Job 22:5 Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite? Psalms 7:9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins. Psalms 55:15 Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.

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Psalms 73:8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily. Psalms 101:4 A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person. Psalms 107:34 A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein. Proverbs 1:16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. Proverbs 1:33 But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil. Proverbs 2:12 To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things; Proverbs 2:14 Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked; Proverbs 3:7 Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD , and depart from evil. Proverbs 3:29-30 29 Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth securely by thee. 30 Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm. Proverbs 4:14 Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. Proverbs 4:27 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil. Proverbs 5:14 I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly. Proverbs 6:14 Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord. Proverbs 6:18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, Proverbs 6:24 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

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Proverbs 8:13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. Proverbs 11:19 As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death. Proverbs 11:21 Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered. Proverbs 11:27 He that diligently seeketh good procureth favour: but he that seeketh mischief, it shall come unto him. Proverbs 12:12-13 12 The wicked desireth the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit. 13 The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble. Proverbs 12:20-21 20 Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy. 21 There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief. Proverbs 13:17 A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health. Proverbs 13:19 The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil. Proverbs 13:21 Evil pursueth sinners: but to the righteous good shall be repayed. Proverbs 14:16 A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident. Proverbs 14:19 The evil bow before the good; and the wicked at the gates of the righteous. Proverbs 14:22 Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good. Proverbs 14:32 The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.

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Proverbs 15:3 The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good. Proverbs 15:10 Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die. Proverbs 15:15 All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast. Proverbs 15:26 The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD : but the words of the pure are pleasant words. Proverbs 15:28 The heart of the righteous studieth to answer: but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things. Proverbs 16:4 The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil. Proverbs 16:6 By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil. Proverbs 16:17 The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul. Proverbs 16:27 An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire. Proverbs 16:30 He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass. Proverbs 17:11 An evil man seeketh only rebellion: therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him. Proverbs 17:13 Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house. Proverbs 17:20 He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.

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Proverbs 19:23 The fear of the LORD tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil. Proverbs 20:8 A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes. Proverbs 20:14 It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth. Proverbs 20:22 Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD , and he shall save thee. Proverbs 20:30 The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly. Proverbs 21:10 The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes. Proverbs 21:12 The righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked: but God overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness. Proverbs 22:3 A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished. Proverbs 23:6 Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats: Proverbs 24:1 Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them. Proverbs 24:16 For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief. Proverbs 24:20 For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out. Proverbs 25:20 As he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to an heavy heart. Proverbs 26:23 Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.

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Proverbs 26:26 Whose hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be shewed before the whole congregation. Proverbs 27:12 A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished. Proverbs 28:5 Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all things. Proverbs 28:10 Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession. Proverbs 28:14 Happy is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief. Proverbs 28:22 He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him. Proverbs 29:6 In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the righteous doth sing and rejoice. Proverbs 31:12 She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. Isaiah 47:10-11 10 For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me. 11 Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know. Jeremiah 1:16 And I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.

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Jeremiah 2:19 Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts. Jeremiah 2:33 Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways. Jeremiah 4:14 O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee? Jeremiah 4:18 Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart. Jeremiah 6:7 As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds. Jeremiah 6:29 The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away. Jeremiah 7:12 But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel. Jeremiah 8:6 I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle. Jeremiah 12:4 How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end. Jeremiah 14:16 And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness upon them.

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Jeremiah 22:22 The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness. Jeremiah 23:11-12 11 For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD . 12 Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the LORD . Jeremiah 23:14 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah. Jeremiah 33:5 They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but it is to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in mine anger and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city. Jeremiah 44:3 Because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, and to serve other gods, whom they knew not, neither they, ye, nor your fathers. Jeremiah 44:5 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods. Jeremiah 44:9 Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they have committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem? Lamentations 1:22 Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint. Ezekiel 8:9 And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here. Ezekiel 16:23 And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith the Lord GOD ;)

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Ezekiel 16:57 Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of thy reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all that are round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, which despise thee round about. Ezekiel 20:44 And ye shall know that I am the LORD , when I have wrought with you for my name's sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, O ye house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD . Ezekiel 30:12 And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have spoken it. Hosea 7:1-3 1 When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without. 2 And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face. 3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. Hosea 9:15 All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters. Hosea 10:15 So shall Bethel do unto you because of your great wickedness: in a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off. Joel 3:13 Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great. Jonah 1:2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me. Nahum 3:19 There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?

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OT:7564

OT:7564 hu*v=r! rish`ah (rish-aw'); feminine of OT:7562; wrong (especially moral): KJV - fault, wickedly (-ness).

Deuteronomy 9:4-5 4 Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee. 5 Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Deuteronomy 25:2 And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number. Proverbs 11:5 The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness. Proverbs 13:6 Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner. Isaiah 9:18 For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke. Ezekiel 5:6 And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them. Ezekiel 18:20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him. Ezekiel 18:27 Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.

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Ezekiel 33:12 Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth. Ezekiel 33:19 But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby. Zechariah 5:8 And he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof. Malachi 1:4 Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever. Malachi 3:15 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered. Malachi 4:1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. OT:7455

OT:7455 u^r) roa` (ro'-ah); from OT:7489; badness (as marring), physically or morally: KJV - X be so bad, badness, (X be so) evil, naughtiness, sadness, sorrow, wickedness.

Deuteronomy 28:20 The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.

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1 Samuel 17:28 And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle. Nehemiah 2:2 Wherefore the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid, Psalms 28:4 Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert. Ecclesiastes 7:3 Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. Isaiah 1:16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; Jeremiah 4:4 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD , and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings. Jeremiah 21:12 O house of David, thus saith the LORD ; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings. Jeremiah 23:2 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the LORD . Jeremiah 23:22 But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings. Jeremiah 24:2-3 2 One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad. 3 Then said the LORD unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.

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Jeremiah 24:8 And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely thus saith the LORD , So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt: Jeremiah 25:5 They said, Turn ye again now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD hath given unto you and to your fathers for ever and ever: Jeremiah 26:3 If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings. Jeremiah 29:17 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil. Jeremiah 44:22 So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day. Hosea 9:15 All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters. OT:5999

OT:5999 lm*u* amal (aw-mawl'); from OT:5998; toil, i.e. wearing effort; hence, worry, wheth. of body or mind: KJV - grievance (-vousness), iniquity, labour, mischief, miserable (-sery), pain (-ful), perverseness, sorrow, toil, travail, trouble, wearisome, wickedness. Out of approximately 30 verses only one translated.


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OT:1942 hW*h^ havvah (hav-vaw'); from OT:1933 (in the sense of eagerly coveting and rushing upon; by implication, of falling); desire; also ruin: KJV - calamity, iniquity, mischief, mischievous (thing), naughtiness, naughty, noisome, perverse thing, substance, very wickedness.

Job 6:2 Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! Job 6:30 Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things? Job 30:13 They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper. Psalms 5:9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue. Psalms 38:12 They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long. Psalms 52:2 Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. Psalms 52:7 Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness. Psalms 55:11 Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets. Psalms 57:1 Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast. Psalms 91:3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. Psalms 94:20 Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?

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Proverbs 10:3 The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked. Proverbs 11:6 The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness. Proverbs 17:4 A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue. Proverbs 19:13 A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping. Micah 7:3 hat they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.

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Greek Word Study

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NT:4190 ponhro/$ poneros (pon-ay-ros'); from a derivative of NT:4192; hurtful, i.e. evil (properly, in effect or influence, and thus differing from NT:2556, which refers rather to essential character, as well as from NT:4550, which indicates degeneracy from original virtue); figuratively, calamitous; also (passively) ill, i.e. diseased; but especially (morally) culpable, i.e. derelict, vicious, facinorous; neuter (singular) mischief, malice, or (plural) guilt; masculine (singular) the devil, or (plural) sinners: KJV - bad, evil, grievous, harm, lewd, malicious, wicked (-ness). See also NT:4191.

Matthew 5:11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Matthew 5:37 But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil. Matthew 5:39 But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. Matthew 5:45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. Matthew 6:13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen. Matthew 6:23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! Matthew 7:11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?

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Matthew 7:17-18 17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Matthew 9:4 And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts? Matthew 12:34-35 34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. 35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. Matthew 12:39 But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: Matthew 12:45 Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation. Matthew 13:19 When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side. Matthew 13:38 The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; Matthew 13:49 So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just, Matthew 15:19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: Matthew 16:4 A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.

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Matthew 18:32 Then his lord, after that he had called him, said unto him, O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me: Matthew 20:15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good? Matthew 22:10 So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests. Matthew 25:26 His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed: Mark 7:22-23 22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: 23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man. Luke 3:19 But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his brother Philip's wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done, Luke 6:22 Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake. Luke 6:35 But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil. Luke 6:45 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh. Luke 7:21 And in that same hour he cured many of their infirmities and plagues, and of evil spirits; and unto many that were blind he gave sight.

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Luke 8:2 And certain women, which had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, out of whom went seven devils, Luke 11:13 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him? Luke 11:29 And when the people were gathered thick together, he began to say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet. Luke 11:34 The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness. Luke 19:22 And he saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow: John 3:19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. John 7:7 The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil. John 17:15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. Acts 17:5 But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people. Acts 18:14 And when Paul was now about to open his mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, If it were a matter of wrong or wicked lewdness, O ye Jews, reason would that I should bear with you:

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Acts 19:12-13 12 So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them. 13 Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth. Acts 19:15-16 15 And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye? 16 And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded. Acts 28:21 And they said unto him, We neither received letters out of Judaea concerning thee, neither any of the brethren that came shewed or spake any harm of thee. Romans 12:9 Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. 1 Corinthians 5:13 But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person. Galatians 1:4 Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father: Ephesians 5:16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Ephesians 6:13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Ephesians 6:16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. Colossians 1:21 And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled

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1 Thessalonians 5:22 Abstain from all appearance of evil. 2 Thessalonians 3:2-3 2 And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not faith. 3 But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil. 1 Timothy 6:4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, 2 Timothy 3:13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. 2 Timothy 4:18 And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. Hebrews 3:12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. Hebrews 10:22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. James 2:4 Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts? James 4:16 But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. 1 John 2:13-14 13 I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father. 14 I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one. 1 John 3:12 Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

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1 John 5:18-19 18 We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not. 19 And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness. 2 John 11 For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds. 3 John 10 Wherefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he doeth, prating against us with malicious words: and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth them out of the church. Revelation 16:2 And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image. NT:4191

NT:4191 ponhro/tero$ poneroteros (pon-ay-rot'-er-os); comparative of NT:4190; more evil: KJV - more wicked.

Matthew 12:45 Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation. Luke 11:26 Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.

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NT:2556 kako/$ kakos (kak-os'); apparently a primary word; worthless (intrinsically, such; whereas NT:4190 properly refers to effects), i.e. (subjectively) depraved, or (objectively) injurious: KJV - bad, evil, harm, ill, noisome, wicked.

Matthew 21:41 They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons. Matthew 24:48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; Matthew 27:23 And the governor said, Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified. Mark 7:21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, Mark 15:14 Then Pilate said unto them, Why, what evil hath he done? And they cried out the more exceedingly, Crucify him. Luke 16:25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. Luke 23:22 And he said unto them the third time, Why, what evil hath he done? I have found no cause of death in him: I will therefore chastise him, and let him go. John 18:23 Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil: but if well, why smitest thou me? Acts 9:13 Then Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard by many of this man, how much evil he hath done to thy saints at Jerusalem: Acts 16:28 But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm: for we are all here.

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Acts 23:9 And there arose a great cry: and the scribes that were of the Pharisees' part arose, and strove, saying, We find no evil in this man: but if a spirit or an angel hath spoken to him, let us not fight against God. Acts 28:5 And he shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm. Romans 1:30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Romans 2:9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; Romans 3:8 And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just. Romans 7:19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. Romans 7:21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. Romans 12:17 Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men. Romans 12:21 Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. Romans 13:3-4 3 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same: 4 For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil. Romans 13:10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. Romans 14:20 For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.

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Romans 16:19 For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil. 1 Corinthians 10:6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. 1 Corinthians 13:5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; 1 Corinthians 15:33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. 2 Corinthians 13:7 Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates. Philippians 3:2 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision. Colossians 3:5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: 1 Thessalonians 5:15 See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men. 1 Timothy 6:10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. 2 Timothy 4:14 Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works: Titus 1:12 One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies. Hebrews 5:14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

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James 1:13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: James 3:8 But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. 1 Peter 3:9-12 9 Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing. 10 For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: 11 Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it. 12 For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil. 3 John 11 Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God. Revelation 2:2 I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars: Revelation 16:2 And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.

NT:459

NT:458 a)nomi/a anomia (an-om-ee'-ah); from NT:459; illegality, i.e. violation of law or (genitive case) wickedness: KJV - iniquity, X

transgress (-ion of) the law, unrighteousness.

Luke 22:37 For I say unto you, that this that is written must yet be accomplished in me, And he was reckoned among the transgressors: for the things concerning me have an end.

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Acts 2:23 Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain: 1 Corinthians 9:21 To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law. 2 Thessalonians 2:8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: 1 Timothy 1:9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, 2 Peter 2:8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;) NT:113

NT:113 a&qesmo$ athesmos (ath'-es-mos); from NT:1 (as a negative particle) and a derivative of NT:5087 (in the sense of enacting); lawless, i.e. (by implication) criminal: KJV - wicked.

2 Peter 2:7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: 2 Peter 3:17 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.

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NT:4189 NT:4189 ponhri/a poneria (pon-ay-ree'-ah); from NT:4190; depravity, i.e. (specifically) malice; plural (concretely) plots, sins: KJV - iniquity, wickedness.

Matthew 22:18 But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites? Mark 7:22-23 22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: 23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man. Luke 11:39 And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness. Acts 3:26 Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities. Romans 1:29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 1 Corinthians 5:8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. Ephesians 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

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NT:2549 NT:2549 kaki/a kakia (kak-ee'-ah); from NT:2556; badness, i.e. (subjectively) depravity, or (actively) malignity, or (passively) trouble: KJV - evil, malice (-iousness), naughtiness, wickedness.

Matthew 6:34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. Acts 8:22 Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee. Romans 1:29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 1 Corinthians 5:8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. 1 Corinthians 14:20 Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men. Ephesians 4:31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: Colossians 3:8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. Titus 3:3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. James 1:21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. 1 Peter 2:1 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

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1 Peter 2:16 As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God. NT:824

NT:824 a&topo$ atopos (at'-op-os); from NT:1 (as a negative particle) and NT:5117; out of place, i.e. (figuratively) improper, injurious, wicked: KJV - amiss, harm, unreasonable.

Luke 23:41 And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss. Acts 25:5 Let them therefore, said he, which among you are able, go down with me, and accuse this man, if there be any wickedness in him. Acts 28:6 Howbeit they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god. 2 Thessalonians 3:2 And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not faith.

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Hebrew word study WICKED

A. Nouns. rasha± OT:7563, "wicked; ungodly; guilty." Rasha± occurs only in

Hebrew and late Aramaic. The word occurs about 260 times as a noun or an adjective and especially in the poetic literature of the Old Testament. It is rare in the Pentateuch and in the historical books. Its frequency increases in the prophetical books.

The narrow meaning of rasha± lies in the concept of "wrongdoing" or "being in the wrong." It is a legal term. The person who has sinned against the law is guilty: "They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them" Prov 28:4. When in Israel's history justice did not prevail, the "guilty" were acquitted: "...when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn" Prov 29:2; cf. 2 Chron 6:23.

Rasha± also denotes the category of people who have done wrong, are still living in sin, and are intent on continuing with wrongdoing. This is the more general meaning of the word. The first psalm exhorts the godly not to imitate the deeds and behavior of the ungodly, wicked people. The "wicked" does not seek God Ps 10:4; he challenges God Ps 10:13. In his way of life the "wicked" loves violence Ps 11:5, oppresses the righteous Ps 17:9, does not repay his debts Ps 37:21, and lays a snare to trap the righteous Ps 119:110. Ps 37 gives a vivid description of the acts of the "wicked" and also of God's judgment upon them. Facing the terrible force of the "wicked," the righteous prayed for God's deliverance and for His judgment upon them. This theme of judgment has already been anticipated in Ps 1:6: "For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish." The expectation of the righteous includes God's judgment on the "wicked" in this life that they might be ashamed Ps 31:17, be overcome by sorrows Ps 32:10, fall by their devices Ps 141:10, and die a premature death Prov 10:27, and that their remembrance will be no more Prov 10:7. It is expected that at the time of their death there will be great shouting: "When it goeth well with the righteous, the city rejoiceth: when the wicked perish, there is shouting" Prov 11:10.

The judgment upon the "wicked" is particularly strong in Proverbs, where the authors contrast the advantages of wisdom and righteousness and the disadvantages of the "wicked" (cf. 2:22: "But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it"). In Job another theme finds expression: why are the

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"wicked" not cut off? "Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?" 21:7. There is no clear answer to this question in the Old Testament. Malachi predicts a new age in which the distinction of the righteous and the "wicked" will be clear and where the righteous will triumph: "Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that seNeth him not" Mal 3:18.

The Septuagint has three translations of rasa±: asebes ("godless; impious"); hamartolos ("sinner; sinful"), and anomos ("lawless").

Two other related nouns occur in the Old Testament. Resha±, which is found about 30 times, usually means "wickedness": "Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubborness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin" Deut 9:27. Rish±ah, which appears about 15 times, refers to "wickedness" or "guilt": "For my righteousness the Lord hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the Lord doth drive them out from before thee" Deut 9:4.

B. Adjective. rasha± OT:7563, "wicked; guilty." This word may also be used as an

adjective. In some cases a person is so guilty that he deserves death: "...if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face... by a certain number" Deut 25:2. The characteristics of a "wicked" person qualify him as a godless, impious man: "How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?" 2 Sam 4:11; cf. Ezek 3:18-19.

C. Verb. rasha± OT:7561, "to be wicked, act wickedly." This verb is derived

from the noun rasa±. There is a similar root in Ethiopic and Arabic, with the respective meanings "to forget" and "to be loose." This verb appears in 2 Chron 6:37: "Yet if they bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and turn and pray unto thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done amiss, and have dealt wickedly."

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WICKEDNESS

beliya±al OT:1100, "wickedness; wicked; destruction." The 27 occurrences of this noun are scattered throughout the periods of biblical Hebrew.

The basic meaning of this word appears in a passage such as Judg 20:13, where the sons of beliya±al are perpetrators of wickedness (they raped and murdered a man's concubine): "Now therefore deliver us the men, the children of Belial [NASB, "worthless fellows"] which are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel." In its first appearance the word represents men who lead others into idolatry: "Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have [seduced] the inhabitants of their city..." Deut 13:13. In Deut 15:9 the word modifies Hebrew dabar, "word" or "matter." Israel is warned to avoid "wicked" words (thoughts) in their hearts. Beliya±al is a synonym for rasha± ("wicked rebellious one") in Job 34:18. In Nah 1:11 the wicked counselor plots evil against God. The psalmist uses beliya±al as a synonym of death: "The cords of death encompassed me, and the torrents of ungodliness [KJV, "floods of ungodly men"] terrified me" Ps 18:4, NASB.

(from Vine's Expository Dictionary of Biblical Words, Copyright © 1985, Thomas Nelson Publishers.)

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Greek Word study WICKED

1. poneros ( ponhro/$ , NT:4190), for which see BAD, No. 2, EVIL, A and B, No. 2, is translated "wicked" in the KJV and RV in Matt 13:49; 18:32; 25:26; Luke 19:22; Acts 18:14; 1 Cor 5:13; in the following the RV substitutes "evil" for KJV, "wicked": Matt 12:45 (twice); 13:19; 16:4; 11:26; 1:21; 3:2; and in the following, where Satan is mentioned as "the (or that) evil one": Matt 13:38; Eph 6:16; 1 John 2:13,14; 3:12 (1st part); 5:18; in v. 19 for KV, "wickedness"; he is so called also in KJV and RV in John 17:15; 2 Thess 3:3; KJV only in Luke 11:4; in 3 John 10, KJV, the word is translated "malicious," RV, "wicked."

2. athesmos ( a&qesmo$ , NT:113), "lawless" (a, negative, thesmos, "law, custom"), "wicked," occurs in 2 Peter 2:7; 3:17. An instance of the use of the word is found in the papyri, where a father breaks off his daughter's engagement because he learnt that her fiance was giving himself over to lawless deeds (Moulton and Milligan, Vocab.).

Notes: (1) In Matt 21:41, KJV, kakos (for which see BAD, No. 1, EVIL, A, No. 1), is translated "wicked" (RV, "miserable"). (2) In Acts 2:23 and 2 Thess 2:8, KJV, anomos, "lawless" (RV), is translated "wicked."

WICKEDNESS

1. poneria ( ponhri/a , NT:4189), akin to poneros (see above, No. 1), is always rendered "wickedness" save in Acts 3:26: see INIQUIIY, No. 4.

2. kakia ( kaki/a , NT:2549), "evil," is rendered "wickedness" in Acts 8:22; RV in James 1:21, KJV, "naughtiness." See EVIL, B, No. 1, MALICE.

Notes: (1) For the KJV of 1 John 5:19 see WICKED, No. 1. (2) In Acts 25:5, KJV, the word atopos (RV, "amiss") is incorrectly rendered "wickedness."

(from Vine's Expository Dictionary of Biblical Words, Copyright © 1985, Thomas Nelson Publishers.)

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