The Bible Talks about Wickedness.

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By the numbers.

  • The word “wickedness” appears 76 times in the NLT version of the Bible.
  • The word “wickedness” appears 78 times in the NIV version of the Bible.
  • The word “wickedness” appears 156 times in the KJV version of the Bible.
  • The word “wickedness” appears 67 times in the ESV version of the Bible.

Bible Stories about Wickedness:

1) The Fall of Man: In Genesis 3, Adam and Eve disobeyed God’s command not to eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, which resulted in the introduction of sin and wickedness into the world.

2) The Tower of Babel: In Genesis 11, people conspired to build a tower that would reach heaven, in defiance of God’s plan for humanity. Their arrogance and disobedience led to confusion of language and scattering of people across the earth.

3) The Flood: In Genesis 6-9, God saw the wickedness of humanity and decided to send a flood to destroy the earth. However, he spared Noah and his family, who were righteous and followed God’s command to build an ark.

4) The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah: In Genesis 19, these cities were so full of wickedness and sin that God decided to destroy them. Lot and his family were the only ones who were spared, but his wife turned back and was turned into a pillar of salt.

Bible Verses Containing the Word Wickedness:

1. Psalm 55:16-17: “As for me, I will call upon God; and the Lord shall save me. Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.”

2. Psalm 7:9: “Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.”

3. Psalm 101:4-5: “A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person. Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.”

4. Isaiah 59:6-7: “Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands. Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of wickedness; desolation and destruction are in their paths.”

5. Malachi 3:18: “Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.”

6. Proverbs 29:27: “An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.”

7. Psalm 94:16: “Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?”

8. Proverbs 24:19-20: “Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the wicked; For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out.”

9. Nahum 1:3: “The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.”

10. Ezekiel 33:12: “Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth.”

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