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Wickedness in the World
When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them,
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The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time.
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maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.”
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“Lord,” he said, “if I have found favor in your eyes, then let the Lord go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, forgive our wickedness and our sin, and take us as your inheritance.”
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He is to lay both hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the wickedness and rebellion of the Israelites—all their sins—and put them on the goat’s head. He shall send the goat away into the wilderness in the care of someone appointed for the task.
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“‘Do not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. Do not have sexual relations with either her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter; they are her close relatives. That is wickedness.
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“‘Do not degrade your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will turn to prostitution and be filled with wickedness.
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“‘If a man marries both a woman and her mother, it is wicked. Both he and they must be burned in the fire, so that no wickedness will be among you.
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After the Lord your God has driven them out before you, do not say to yourself, “The Lord has brought me here to take possession of this land because of my righteousness.” No, it is on account of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is going to drive them out before you.
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It is not because of your righteousness or your integrity that you are going in to take possession of their land; but on account of the wickedness of these nations, the Lord your God will drive them out before you, to accomplish what he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
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Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Overlook the stubbornness of this people, their wickedness and their sin.
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And I will certainly hide my face in that day because of all their wickedness in turning to other gods.
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Thus God repaid the wickedness that Abimelek had done to his father by murdering his seventy brothers.
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God also made the people of Shechem pay for all their wickedness. The curse of Jotham son of Jerub-Baal came on them.
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The Wickedness of Joash
After the death of Jehoiada, the officials of Judah came and paid homage to the king, and he listened to them.
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The Lord had humbled Judah because of Ahaz king of Israel, for he had promoted wickedness in Judah and had been most unfaithful to the Lord.
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Must we hear now that you too are doing all this terrible wickedness and are being unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women?”
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Is there any wickedness on my lips? Can my mouth not discern malice?
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Is not your wickedness great? Are not your sins endless?
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If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored: If you remove wickedness far from your tent
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He punishes them for their wickedness where everyone can see them,
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Your wickedness only affects humans like yourself, and your righteousness only other people.
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and further, that his anger never punishes and he does not take the least notice of wickedness.
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For you are not a God who is pleased with wickedness; with you, evil people are not welcome.
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Break the arm of the wicked man; call the evildoer to account for his wickedness that would not otherwise be found out.
