Character of the Wicked

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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• 1 Peter 2:7 NT

  For you who believe therefore is the honor, but for those who are disobedient, “The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone,”

• Proverbs 1:10-14 OT

  My son, if sinners entice you, don’t consent. If they say, “Come with us. Let’s lay in wait for blood. Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause. Let’s swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the…

• 2 Timothy 3:6 NT

  For some of these are people who creep into houses and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,

• Nehemiah 2:10 OT

  When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly, because a man had come to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.

• Proverbs 28:1 OT

  The wicked flee when no one pursues; but the righteous are as bold as a lion.

• Proverbs 16:29 OT

  A man of violence entices his neighbor, and leads him in a way that is not good.

• Deuteronomy 32:6 OT

  Is this the way you repay Yahweh, foolish and unwise people? Isn’t he your father who has bought you? He has made you and established you.

• Psalms 5:5 OT

  The arrogant will not stand in your sight. You hate all workers of iniquity.

• Job 8:13 OT

  So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish,

• Psalms 37:21 OT

  The wicked borrow, and don’t pay back, but the righteous give generously.

• Micah 6:11 OT

  Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights?

• Proverbs 21:8 OT

  The way of the guilty is devious, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.

• Isaiah 57:17 OT

  I was angry because of the iniquity of his covetousness and struck him. I hid myself and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.

• Philippians 3:19 NT

  whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

• Ezekiel 3:7 OT

  But the house of Israel will not listen to you, for they will not listen to me; for all the house of Israel are obstinate and hard-hearted.

• Job 24:13 OT

  “These are of those who rebel against the light. They don’t know its ways, nor stay in its paths.

• John 3:20 NT

  For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

• Romans 8:7 NT

  because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

• Isaiah 29:13 OT

  The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and honors me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;

• 2 Timothy 3:5 NT

  holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.

• Hosea 4:1 OT

  Hear Yahweh’s word, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.

• 2 Thessalonians 1:8 NT

  punishing those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,

• Ezekiel 2:4 OT

  The children are impudent and stiff-hearted. I am sending you to them, and you shall tell them, ‘This is what the Lord Yahweh says.’

• Psalms 10:4 OT

  The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.