What Does the Bible Say About Putin?

Nahum 3:19 ESV / 22 helpful votes

There is no easing your hurt; your wound is grievous. All who hear the news about you clap their hands over you. For upon whom has not come your unceasing evil?

Proverbs 16:5 ESV / 21 helpful votes

Everyone who is arrogant in heart is an abomination to the Lord; be assured, he will not go unpunished.

Isaiah 3:11 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him, for what his hands have dealt out shall be done to him.

Isaiah 14:9 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Sheol beneath is stirred up to meet you when you come; it rouses the shades to greet you, all who were leaders of the earth; it raises from their thrones all who were kings of the nations.

Psalm 52:4-7 ESV / 14 helpful votes

You love all words that devour, O deceitful tongue. But God will break you down forever; he will snatch and tear you from your tent; he will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah The righteous shall see and fear, and shall laugh at him, saying, “See the man who would not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his riches and sought refuge in his own destruction!”

Ezekiel 38:1-4 ESV / 10 helpful votes

The word of the Lord came to me: “Son of man, set your face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him and say, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal. And I will turn you about and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out, and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great host, all of them with buckler and shield, wielding swords.

Psalm 52:1-5 ESV / 10 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. A Maskil of David, when Doeg, the Edomite, came and told Saul, “David has come to the house of Ahimelech.” Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The steadfast love of God endures all the day. Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit. You love evil more than good, and lying more than speaking what is right. Selah You love all words that devour, O deceitful tongue. But God will break you down forever; he will snatch and tear you from your tent; he will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah

2 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 10 helpful votes

And Shimei said as he cursed, “Get out, get out, you man of blood, you worthless man!

1 John 3:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.

Isaiah 14:11 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, the sound of your harps; maggots are laid as a bed beneath you, and worms are your covers.

Ecclesiastes 9:18 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.

Proverbs 8:13 ESV / 7 helpful votes

The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate.

Proverbs 24:19-20 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Fret not yourself because of evildoers, and be not envious of the wicked, for the evil man has no future; the lamp of the wicked will be put out.

Titus 3:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Knowing that such a person is warped and sinful; he is self-condemned.

Isaiah 29:20-21 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For the ruthless shall come to nothing and the scoffer cease, and all who watch to do evil shall be cut off, who by a word make a man out to be an offender, and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate, and with an empty plea turn aside him who is in the right.

Isaiah 13:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

I will punish the world for its evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; I will put an end to the pomp of the arrogant, and lay low the pompous pride of the ruthless.

Isaiah 2:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

The haughty looks of man shall be brought low, and the lofty pride of men shall be humbled, and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.

Proverbs 21:24 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“Scoffer” is the name of the arrogant, haughty man who acts with arrogant pride.

Proverbs 16:29 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 14:32 ESV / 5 helpful votes

The wicked is overthrown through his evildoing, but the righteous finds refuge in his death.

Psalm 146:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation.

Psalm 73:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Therefore pride is their necklace; violence covers them as a garment.

Psalm 37:12-13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

The wicked plots against the righteous and gnashes his teeth at him, but the Lord laughs at the wicked, for he sees that his day is coming.

Psalm 11:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes

The Lord tests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence.

Psalm 5:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

You destroy those who speak lies; the Lord abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

Genesis 9:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

1 Peter 3:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”

2 Timothy 3:1-9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. ...

Luke 14:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Luke 2:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered.

Nahum 3:5-6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Behold, I am against you, declares the Lord of hosts, and will lift up your skirts over your face; and I will make nations look at your nakedness and kingdoms at your shame. I will throw filth at you and treat you with contempt and make you a spectacle.

Nahum 1:2-3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The Lord is a jealous and avenging God; the Lord is avenging and wrathful; the Lord takes vengeance on his adversaries and keeps wrath for his enemies. The Lord is slow to anger and great in power, and the Lord will by no means clear the guilty. His way is in whirlwind and storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

Daniel 9:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And he shall make a strong covenant with many for one week, and for half of the week he shall put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate, until the decreed end is poured out on the desolator.”

Daniel 8:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes

By his cunning he shall make deceit prosper under his hand, and in his own mind he shall become great. Without warning he shall destroy many. And he shall even rise up against the Prince of princes, and he shall be broken—but by no human hand.

Isaiah 49:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For thus says the Lord: “Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken, and the prey of the tyrant be rescued, for I will contend with those who contend with you, and I will save your children.

Isaiah 14:13-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

You said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of God I will set my throne on high; I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far reaches of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.’ But you are brought down to Sheol, to the far reaches of the pit. Those who see you will stare at you and ponder over you: ‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook kingdoms, who made the world like a desert and overthrew its cities, who did not let his prisoners go home?’

Isaiah 5:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

Proverbs 24:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Be not envious of evil men, nor desire to be with them,

Proverbs 17:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Whoever mocks the poor insults his Maker; he who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished.

Proverbs 3:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Do not envy a man of violence and do not choose any of his ways,

Psalm 140:9-10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

As for the head of those who surround me, let the mischief of their lips overwhelm them! Let burning coals fall upon them! Let them be cast into fire, into miry pits, no more to rise!

Psalm 94:3-7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

O Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked exult? They pour out their arrogant words; all the evildoers boast. They crush your people, O Lord, and afflict your heritage. They kill the widow and the sojourner, and murder the fatherless; and they say, “The Lord does not see; the God of Jacob does not perceive.”

Psalm 94:1-23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

O Lord, God of vengeance, O God of vengeance, shine forth! Rise up, O judge of the earth; repay to the proud what they deserve! O Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked exult? They pour out their arrogant words; all the evildoers boast. They crush your people, O Lord, and afflict your heritage. ...

Psalm 58:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance; he will bathe his feet in the blood of the wicked.

Psalm 58:1-9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Miktam of David. Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods? Do you judge the children of man uprightly? No, in your hearts you devise wrongs; your hands deal out violence on earth. The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray from birth, speaking lies. They have venom like the venom of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops its ear, so that it does not hear the voice of charmers or of the cunning enchanter. ...

Psalm 18:48 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Who rescued me from my enemies; yes, you exalted me above those who rose against me; you delivered me from the man of violence.

Psalm 10:1-18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Why, O Lord, do you stand far away? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble? In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the poor; let them be caught in the schemes that they have devised. For the wicked boasts of the desires of his soul, and the one greedy for gain curses and renounces the Lord. In the pride of his face the wicked does not seek him; all his thoughts are, “There is no God.” His ways prosper at all times; your judgments are on high, out of his sight; as for all his foes, he puffs at them. ...

2 Samuel 23:6-7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But worthless men are all like thorns that are thrown away, for they cannot be taken with the hand; but the man who touches them arms himself with iron and the shaft of a spear, and they are utterly consumed with fire.”

49 Bible Verses about Putin

Nahum 3:19 ESV / 22 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 16:5 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 3:11 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 14:9 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Ezekiel 38:1-4 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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2 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 3:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 14:11 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ecclesiastes 9:18 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 8:13 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 24:19-20 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Titus 3:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 29:20-21 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 13:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 2:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 21:24 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 16:29 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 14:32 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 146:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 73:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Psalm 11:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Genesis 9:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Peter 3:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Timothy 3:1-9 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 14:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 2:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Nahum 3:5-6 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Nahum 1:2-3 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Daniel 9:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Daniel 8:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 49:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 14:13-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 5:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 24:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 17:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 3:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 140:9-10 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 94:3-7 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 94:1-23 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 58:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 58:1-9 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 18:48 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 10:1-18 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Samuel 23:6-7 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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