Psalms 73:6
Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.
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Psalms 73:6
Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.
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Psalms 73:3
For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
Psalms 73:4
For there are no struggles in their death, but their strength is firm.
Psalms 73:5
They are free from burdens of men, neither are they plagued like other men.
Psalms 73:6
Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.
Psalms 73:7
Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.
Psalms 73:8
They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.
Psalms 73:9
They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.
Psalms 73:10
Therefore their people return to them, and they drink up waters of abundance.
Psalms 73:11
They say, “How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?”
Psalms 73:12
Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.
Psalms 73:13
Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence,
Jeremiah 12:1
You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would like to plead a case with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?
Job 21:7
“Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?
Job 21:8
Their child is established with them in their sight, their offspring before their eyes.
Job 21:9
Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
Job 21:10
Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don’t miscarry.
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Proverbs 4:17
For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
Isaiah 59:6
Their webs won’t become garments. They won’t cover themselves with their works. Their works are works of iniquity, and acts of violence are in their hands.
Micah 2:2
They covet fields and seize them, and houses, then take them away. They oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
Genesis 6:13
God said to Noah, “I will bring an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them and the earth.
Job 24:2
There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.
Psalms 55:9
Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Jeremiah 6:7
As a well produces its waters, so she produces her wickedness. Violence and destruction is heard in her. Sickness and wounds are continually before me.
Ezekiel 8:17
Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? For they have filled the land with violence, and have turned again to provoke me to anger. Behold, they put the branch to their nose.
Amos 3:10
“Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says Yahweh, “Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.”
Micah 6:12
Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.
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Psalms 109:18
He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment. It came into his inward parts like water, like oil into his bones.
Malachi 2:16
One who hates and divorces”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore pay attention to your spirit, that you don’t be unfaithful.
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Job 21:11
They send out their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.
Job 21:12
They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
Job 21:13
They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.
Job 21:14
They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.
Job 21:15
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’
Luke 16:19
“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.
Amos 6:5
who strum on the strings of a harp, who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David;
Amos 6:6
who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best oils, but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
Luke 15:13
Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.
Revelation 18:7
However much she glorified herself and grew wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning. For she says in her heart, ‘I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see mourning.’
Revelation 18:16
saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, she who was dressed in fine linen, purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls!
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Isaiah 3:16
Moreover Yahweh said, “Because the daughters of Zion are arrogant, and walk with outstretched necks and flirting eyes, walking daintily as they go, jingling ornaments on their feet;
Psalms 10:2
In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.
Psalms 10:4
The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.
Proverbs 30:13
There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes! Their eyelids are lifted up.
Isaiah 3:9
The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don’t hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.
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Jeremiah 12:2
You have planted them. Yes, they have taken root. They grow. Yes, they produce fruit. You are near in their mouth, and far from their heart.
Jeremiah 12:3
But you, Yahweh, know me. You see me, and test my heart toward you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
Psalms 119:70
Their heart is as callous as the fat, but I delight in your law.
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Psalms 73:18
Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.
Psalms 73:19
How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.
Psalms 73:20
As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.
Psalms 37:35
I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.
Psalms 37:36
But he passed away, and behold, he was not. Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.
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James 5:4
Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.
James 5:5
You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.
Proverbs 3:31
Don’t envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways.
Jeremiah 5:28
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 123:4
Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.
Jeremiah 48:11
“Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his dregs, and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither has he gone into captivity; therefore his taste remains in him, and his scent is not changed.
Psalms 55:19
God, who is enthroned forever, will hear and answer them. Selah.They never change and don’t fear God.
Proverbs 1:32
For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.
Ecclesiastes 8:11
Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
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Song of Solomon 4:9
You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride. You have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck.
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Proverbs 6:17
arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
1 Peter 5:5
Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility and subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
1 John 2:16
For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.
Psalms 119:21
You have rebuked the proud who are cursed, who wander from your commandments.
Proverbs 11:2
When pride comes, then comes shame, but with humility comes wisdom.
Proverbs 13:10
Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is with people who take advice.
Proverbs 16:18
Pride goes before destruction, and an arrogant spirit before a fall.
Proverbs 21:4
A high look and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, is sin.
Proverbs 28:25
One who is greedy stirs up strife; but one who trusts in Yahweh will prosper.
Hosea 7:10
The pride of Israel testifies to his face; yet they haven’t returned to Yahweh their God, nor sought him, for all this.
Habakkuk 2:4
Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.
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Psalms 75:5
Don’t lift up your horn on high. Don’t speak with a stiff neck.”
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Psalms 107:5
Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
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Proverbs 1:9
for they will be a garland to grace your head, and chains around your neck.
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Zechariah 3:3
Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and was standing before the angel.
1 Peter 2:16
Live as free people, yet not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.
Jude 1:23
and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.
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