The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it? I, the LORD, search the heart, I test the mind, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.(Jer 17:9-10, NKJV)
The way of the wicked is like darkness; they do not know what makes them stumble.(Prov 4:19, NKJV)
Calamity will surely overtake the wicked, and those who hate the righteous will be punished. But the LORD will redeem those who serve Him. No one who takes refuge in Him will be condemned.(Psalm 34:21-22, NLT)
Behold, the wicked man conceives evil and is pregnant with mischief and gives birth to lies. He makes a pit, digging it out, and falls into the hole that he has made. His mischief returns upon his own head, and on his own skull his violence descends.(Psalm 7:14-16, ESV)
For your ways are in full view of the LORD, and He examines all your paths. The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare them; the cords of their sins hold them fast. For lack of discipline they will die, led astray by their own great folly.(Prov 5:21-23, NIV)
A senseless man does not know, nor does a fool understand this. When the wicked spring up like grass, and when all the workers of iniquity flourish, it is that they may be destroyed forever. But You, LORD, are on high forevermore.(Psalm 92:6-8, NKJV)
The wicked will not rule the land of the godly, for then the godly might be tempted to do wrong... Banish those who turn to crooked ways, O LORD. Take them away with those who do evil.(Psalm 125:3,5, NLT)
The curse of the LORD is on the house of the wicked, but He blesses the home of the just. Surely He scorns the scornful, but gives grace to the humble. The wise shall inherit glory, but shame shall be the legacy of fools.(Prov 3:33-35, NKJV)
Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but steadfast love surrounds the one who trusts in the LORD.(Psalm 32:10, ESV)
The LORD detests those whose hearts are perverse, but he delights in those whose ways are blameless.(Prov 11:20, NIV)
The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and His ears are open unto their cry. The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.(Psalm 34:15-16, KJV)
As wax melts in the presence of fire, so the wicked die in the presence of God. But the righteous rejoice and exult before God; they are overwhelmed with joy.(Psalm 68:2, ISV)
