Character of the Wicked

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Psalms 14:1 OT

  The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who does good.

• Proverbs 13:5 OT

  A righteous man hates lies, but a wicked man brings shame and disgrace.

• Psalms 58:3 OT

  The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

• Psalms 62:4 OT

  They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly.

• Isaiah 59:4 OT

  No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity, and speak lies. They conceive mischief, and give birth to iniquity.

• Proverbs 24:8 OT

  One who plots to do evil will be called a schemer.

• Micah 7:3 OT

  Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.

• Psalms 10:8 OT

  He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.

• Psalms 94:6 OT

  They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.

• Job 21:15 OT

  What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’

• Psalms 53:4 OT

  Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on God?

• Psalms 69:26 OT

  For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.

• Psalms 109:16 OT

  because he didn’t remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, the broken in heart, to kill them.

• Deuteronomy 32:5 OT

  They have dealt corruptly with him. They are not his children, because of their defect. They are a perverse and crooked generation.

• Psalms 59:12 OT

  For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.

• Obadiah 1:3 OT

  The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’

• 2 Timothy 3:2 NT

  For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

• Psalms 35:15 OT

  But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn’t know it. They tore at me, and didn’t cease.

• 2 Corinthians 13:5 NT

  Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know about your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.

• 2 Timothy 3:8 NT

  Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind, who concerning the faith are rejected.

• Titus 1:16 NT

  They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

• Jude 1:1 NT

  Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:

• 1 Kings 21:20 OT

  Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in Yahweh’s sight.

• 2 Kings 17:17 OT

  They caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger.