100 Bible Verses About Evil

And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

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

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?

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.

But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?

For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and they that be cursed of him shall be cut off.

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.

And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.

And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

But thou, O Lord, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the heathen in derision.

Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the Lord, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

For when they came into the house, he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, and they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and gat them away through the plain all night.

For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful.

Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings.

And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.

And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty’s sake.

So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,

Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:

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.

The Lord is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.

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.

But after they had rest, they did evil again before thee: therefore leftest thou them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them: yet when they returned, and cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and many times didst thou deliver them according to thy mercies;

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

All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.

I the Lord have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.

For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.

Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah hath read:

I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word.

And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord: he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.

Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.

Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.

Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.

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:

So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels.

But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door.

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.

By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.

Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.

Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man;

For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity.

Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?

When righteous men do rejoice, there is great glory: but when the wicked rise, a man is hidden.

Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you.

For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord God.

They hatch cockatrice’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.

Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

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

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

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

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

Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.

And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.

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.

Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.

Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.

Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the Lord persecute them.

And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.

Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them.

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah.

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.

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

Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.

For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.

And the Lord said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves:

But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.

Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:

And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the Lord will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.

And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.

In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

Behold, here is my daughter a maiden, and his concubine; them I will bring out now, and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth good unto you: but unto this man do not so vile a thing.

Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not, know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in mine hand, and I have not sinned against thee; yet thou huntest my soul to take it.

Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength.

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

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

The Lord is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.

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

Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.

And her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way: and, behold, the woman his concubine was fallen down at the door of the house, and her hands were upon the threshold.

Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.

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

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.

And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.

Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

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

Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?

Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.

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.

And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.

Evil pursueth sinners: but to the righteous good shall be repayed.

They have belied the Lord, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:

And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them;

Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.

And the man, the master of the house, went out unto them, and said 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.