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Malachi 3:15
Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’
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Psalms 37:1
Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.
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Psalms 92:7
though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.
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Job 12:6
The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.
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Psalms 51:4
Against you, and you only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight, so you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.
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Psalms 37:35
I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.
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Habakkuk 1:4
Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.
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Jeremiah 11:20
But, Yahweh of Armies, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, I will see your vengeance on them; for to you I have revealed my cause.
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Zephaniah 3:5
Yahweh, within her, is righteous. He will do no wrong. Every morning he brings his justice to light. He doesn’t fail, but the unjust know no shame.
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Habakkuk 1:13-17
You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,and make men like the fish of the sea, like the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?He takes up all of them with the hook. He catches them in his net, and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad.Therefore he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious, and his food is good.Will he therefore continually empty his net, and kill the nations without mercy?
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Daniel 9:7
“ Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as it is today; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.
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Jeremiah 5:11
For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me,” says Yahweh.
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Jeremiah 5:27-28
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grew rich.They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t defend the rights of the needy.
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Psalms 94:3-4
Yahweh, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked triumph?They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.
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Psalms 73:3-28
For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.For there are no struggles in their death, but their strength is firm.They are free from burdens of men, neither are they plagued like other men.Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.Therefore their people return to them, and they drink up waters of abundance.They say,“ How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?”Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence,For all day long I have been plagued, and punished every morning.If I had said,“ I will speak thus”; behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me,until I entered God’s sanctuary, and considered their latter end.Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart.I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.Nevertheless, I am continually with you. You have held my right hand.You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.Whom do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth whom I desire besides you.My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish. You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.
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Ezra 9:15
Yahweh, the God of Israel, you are righteous; for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as it is today. Behold, we are before you in our guiltiness; for no one can stand before you because of this.”
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Job 21:7-15
“ Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?Their child is established with them in their sight, their offspring before their eyes.Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don’t miscarry.They send out their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.They tell God,‘ Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’
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Job 13:3
“ Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.
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Psalms 119:137
You are righteous, Yahweh. Your judgments are upright.
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Isaiah 48:8
Yes, you didn’t hear. Yes, you didn’t know. Yes, from of old your ear was not opened, for I knew that you dealt very treacherously, and were called a transgressor from the womb.
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Psalms 145:17
Yahweh is righteous in all his ways, and gracious in all his works.
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Hosea 6:7
But they, like Adam, have broken the covenant. They were unfaithful to me, there.
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Isaiah 41:21
Produce your cause,” says Yahweh.“ Bring out your strong reasons!” says the King of Jacob.
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Romans 3:5-6
But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.May it never be! For then how will God judge the world?
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Genesis 18:25
May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”
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Deuteronomy 32:4
The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.
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Jeremiah 12:6
For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you! Even they have cried aloud after you! Don’t believe them, though they speak beautiful words to you.
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Psalms 119:75
Yahweh, I know that your judgments are righteous, that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
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Proverbs 1:32
For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.