Character of the Wicked

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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

• Exodus 33:5 OT

  Yahweh had said to Moses, “Tell the children of Israel, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go up among you for one moment, I would consume you. Therefore now take off your jewelry from you, that I may know what to do to you.’ ”

• Acts 7:51 NT

  “You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.

• Jeremiah 9:26 OT

  Egypt, Judah, Edom, the children of Ammon, Moab, and all who have the corners of their hair cut off, who dwell in the wilderness, for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.”

• Proverbs 11:7 OT

  When a wicked man dies, hope perishes, and expectation of power comes to nothing.

• Isaiah 26:10 OT

  Let favor be shown to the wicked, yet he will not learn righteousness. In the land of uprightness he will deal wrongfully, and will not see Yahweh’s majesty.

• Romans 1:31 NT

  without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;

• Proverbs 16:27 OT

  A worthless man devises mischief. His speech is like a scorching fire.

• Matthew 25:30 NT

  Throw out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

• Romans 3:12 NT

  They have all turned away. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, no, not so much as one.”

• Titus 1:10 NT

  For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

• Luke 6:35 NT

  But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

• Acts 2:40 NT

  With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!”