100 Bible Verses about Villainy

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.”

Isaiah 32:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For the fool speaks folly, and his heart is busy with iniquity, to practice ungodliness, to utter error concerning the Lord, to leave the craving of the hungry unsatisfied, and to deprive the thirsty of drink.

John 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

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

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!

Revelation 22:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and the sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

Acts 18:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, “If it were a matter of wrongdoing or vicious crime, O Jews, I would have reason to accept your complaint.

Matthew 19:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He said to him, “Which ones?” And Jesus said, “You shall not murder, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness,

Matthew 15:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.

Matthew 12:34-36 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. The good person out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure brings forth evil. I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak,

Hosea 6:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

As robbers lie in wait for a man, so the priests band together; they murder on the way to Shechem; they commit villainy.

1 John 3:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.

James 2:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

James 1:14-15 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.

Colossians 3:5-6 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. On account of these the wrath of God is coming.

Ephesians 5:11-12 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. For it is shameful even to speak of the things that they do in secret.

Galatians 5:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

1 Corinthians 5:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

God judges those outside. “Purge the evil person from among you.”

Romans 13:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Romans 1:29 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,

Acts 8:21-22 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart is not right before God. Repent, therefore, of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that, if possible, the intent of your heart may be forgiven you.

Acts 5:3-4 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land? While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not at your disposal? Why is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to man but to God.”

John 14:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Luke 18:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery, Do not murder, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honor your father and mother.’”

Mark 10:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother.’”

Matthew 23:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 29:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Because they have done an outrageous thing in Israel, they have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives, and they have spoken in my name lying words that I did not command them. I am the one who knows, and I am witness, declares the Lord.’”

Isaiah 32:1-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Behold, a king will reign in righteousness, and princes will rule in justice. Each will be like a hiding place from the wind, a shelter from the storm, like streams of water in a dry place, like the shade of a great rock in a weary land. Then the eyes of those who see will not be closed, and the ears of those who hear will give attention. The heart of the hasty will understand and know, and the tongue of the stammerers will hasten to speak distinctly. The fool will no more be called noble, nor the scoundrel said to be honorable. ...

Deuteronomy 18:10-13 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord. And because of these abominations the Lord your God is driving them out before you. You shall be blameless before the Lord your God,

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Revelation 22:18-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book, and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.

Revelation 17:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality.

Revelation 9:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Nor did they repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts.

1 John 2:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.

2 Peter 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Forsaking the right way, they have gone astray. They have followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved gain from wrongdoing,

2 Peter 2:1-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed. And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep. For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; ...

James 3:5-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell.

James 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

Hebrews 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

2 Timothy 4:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Greet Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus.

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

Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons,

1 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.

1 Timothy 2:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

1 Timothy 1:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,

1 Timothy 1:9-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers, the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,

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

Masters, treat your bondservants justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

Colossians 3:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

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

Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.

Ephesians 5:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.

Galatians 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed.

1 Corinthians 16:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The churches of Asia send you greetings. Aquila and Prisca, together with the church in their house, send you hearty greetings in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 10:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

We must not indulge in sexual immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day.

1 Corinthians 8:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.

1 Corinthians 6:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

1 Corinthians 6:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,

1 Corinthians 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.

1 Corinthians 1:1-4:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and our brother Sosthenes, To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus, that in every way you were enriched in him in all speech and all knowledge— ...

Romans 16:3-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus, who risked their necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks but all the churches of the Gentiles give thanks as well.

Romans 3:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

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

And was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,

Acts 27:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And when we had sailed across the open sea along the coast of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra in Lycia.

Acts 21:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Take these men and purify yourself along with them and pay their expenses, so that they may shave their heads. Thus all will know that there is nothing in what they have been told about you, but that you yourself also live in observance of the law.

Acts 21:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Do therefore what we tell you. We have four men who are under a vow;

Acts 21:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

When we had come in sight of Cyprus, leaving it on the left we sailed to Syria and landed at Tyre, for there the ship was to unload its cargo.

Acts 19:13-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists undertook to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “I adjure you by the Jesus whom Paul proclaims.” Seven sons of a Jewish high priest named Sceva were doing this. But the evil spirit answered them, “Jesus I know, and Paul I recognize, but who are you?” And the man in whom was the evil spirit leaped on them, mastered all of them and overpowered them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded. And this became known to all the residents of Ephesus, both Jews and Greeks. And fear fell upon them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was extolled. ...

Acts 18:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He began to speak boldly in the synagogue, but when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the way of God more accurately.

Acts 18:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

When he had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the church, and then went down to Antioch.

Acts 18:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And they came to Ephesus, and he left them there, but he himself went into the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews.

Acts 18:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

After this, Paul stayed many days longer and then took leave of the brothers and set sail for Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila. At Cenchreae he had cut his hair, for he was under a vow.

Acts 18:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And they all seized Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him in front of the tribunal. But Gallio paid no attention to any of this.

Acts 18:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Saying, “This man is persuading people to worship God contrary to the law.”

Acts 18:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And the Lord said to Paul one night in a vision, “Do not be afraid, but go on speaking and do not be silent,

Acts 18:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And when they opposed and reviled him, he shook out his garments and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”

Acts 18:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

When Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul was occupied with the word, testifying to the Jews that the Christ was Jesus.

Acts 18:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and tried to persuade Jews and Greeks.

Acts 18:1-28 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

After this Paul left Athens and went to Corinth. And he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to leave Rome. And he went to see them, and because he was of the same trade he stayed with them and worked, for they were tentmakers by trade. And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and tried to persuade Jews and Greeks. When Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul was occupied with the word, testifying to the Jews that the Christ was Jesus. ...

Acts 17:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But some men joined him and believed, among whom also were Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris and others with them.

Acts 17:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,

Acts 16:16-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

As we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners much gain by fortune-telling. She followed Paul and us, crying out, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to you the way of salvation.” And this she kept doing for many days. Paul, having become greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.” And it came out that very hour.

Acts 16:9-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And a vision appeared to Paul in the night: a man of Macedonia was standing there, urging him and saying, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.” And when Paul had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go on into Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.

Acts 16:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.

Acts 15:36 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And after some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us return and visit the brothers in every city where we proclaimed the word of the Lord, and see how they are.”

Acts 13:51 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But they shook off the dust from their feet against them and went to Iconium.

Acts 13:45 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and began to contradict what was spoken by Paul, reviling him.

Acts 13:6-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

When they had gone through the whole island as far as Paphos, they came upon a certain magician, a Jewish false prophet named Bar-Jesus. He was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of intelligence, who summoned Barnabas and Saul and sought to hear the word of God. But Elymas the magician (for that is the meaning of his name) opposed them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith. But Saul, who was also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, looked intently at him and said, “You son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, full of all deceit and villainy, will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord? ...

Acts 10:9-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The next day, as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the housetop about the sixth hour to pray. And he became hungry and wanted something to eat, but while they were preparing it, he fell into a trance and saw the heavens opened and something like a great sheet descending, being let down by its four corners upon the earth. In it were all kinds of animals and reptiles and birds of the air. And there came a voice to him: “Rise, Peter; kill and eat.” ...

Acts 10:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion of what was known as the Italian Cohort,

Acts 9:1-43 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. Now as he went on his way, he approached Damascus, and suddenly a light from heaven shone around him. And falling to the ground, he heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?” And he said, “Who are you, Lord?” And he said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. ...

Acts 8:37 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 8:9-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But there was a man named Simon, who had previously practiced magic in the city and amazed the people of Samaria, saying that he himself was somebody great. They all paid attention to him, from the least to the greatest, saying, “This man is the power of God that is called Great.” And they paid attention to him because for a long time he had amazed them with his magic. But when they believed Philip as he preached good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women. Even Simon himself believed, and after being baptized he continued with Philip. And seeing signs and great miracles performed, he was amazed.

Acts 4:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

John 8:44 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

John 3:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.

Mark 1:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And they went into Capernaum, and immediately on the Sabbath he entered the synagogue and was teaching.

Matthew 27:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And all the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”

Matthew 23:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.

Matthew 19:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”

Matthew 14:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And when they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret.