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Bible Verses About wrong

This collection includes 50 passages about wrong. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.

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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.

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When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby.

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Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.

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

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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.

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Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!

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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.

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A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.

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For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

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For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

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For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.

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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.

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As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:

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Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

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For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.

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He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the Lord.

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He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.

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Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

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They that are of a froward heart are abomination to the Lord: but such as are upright in their way are his delight.

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That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.

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Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:

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But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.

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If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.

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Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God’s?

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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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Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God.

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And if a soul sin, and commit any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the Lord; though he wist it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.

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There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

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The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the Lord: but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness.

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What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.

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There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

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Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

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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.

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An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.

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Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.

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But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.

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An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.

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For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

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

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For the froward is abomination to the Lord: but his secret is with the righteous.

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