Dear friends, the Bible repeatedly warns that those who live in wickedness and rebel against God will face judgment in the end. Although the wicked may prosper for a season, their day of reckoning will come.
God’s justice and holiness demand the punishment of evil. We cannot escape the consequences of chronic sin. The Psalms describe how God will one day shatter the wicked like a potter’s vessel. They will be driven out in disgrace, the living will be cut off from the land.
Although God patiently allows the wicked to turn from their ways, those who stubbornly persist in evil will suffer disaster. Their own sinful choices and disobedience to God’s ways lead to their destruction.
However, Scripture also confirms that God does not delight in judgment. He wants to redeem all people through repentance and faith. We must examine our own hearts, repent of hidden sins, and surrender our lives completely to Christ.
He alone can deliver us from the coming wrath and take us to His eternal kingdom. The Lord is patient, but the day of reckoning is certain. May we live holy and godly lives, warning others of the dangers of persisting in unrighteousness. The fruit of righteousness and holiness is life, but the wages of sin is death
Dear friends, now let’s look at the following Bible scriptures that talk about punishing the wicked.
Proverbs 11:21
“Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered”
Romans 6:23
“For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord”
Psalm 34:21
“Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate”
Nahum 1:3
“The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet”
Proverbs 10:29
“The way of the Lord is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity”
Malachi 4:1
“For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch”
Psalm 9:17
“The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God”
2 Peter 2:9
“The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished”
2 Thessalonians 1:9
“Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power”
Proverbs 21:15
“It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity”
Job 21:30
“That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath”
Psalm 37:38
“But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off”
Isaiah 13:11
“And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible”
Proverbs 14:32
“The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death”
Romans 2:8
“But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath”
Psalm 7:11
“God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day”
Jeremiah 21:14
“But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the Lord : and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it”
Psalm 9:5
“Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever”
Zephaniah 3:5
“The just Lord is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame”
Exodus 34:7
“Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation”
Leviticus 18:25
“And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants”
Psalm 11:6
“Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup”
Psalm 75:8
“For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them”
Psalm 94:23
“And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the Lord our God shall cut them off”
Isaiah 26:21
“For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain”
Jeremiah 4:4
“Circumcise yourselves to the Lord , and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings”
Psalm 68:2
“As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God”
Isaiah 66:24
“And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh”
Psalm 145:20
“The Lord preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy”
Deuteronomy 32:35
“To me belongeth vengeance and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste”
Proverbs 11:19
“As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death”
Jeremiah 25:31
“A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the Lord hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith the Lord”
Ezekiel 18:20
“The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him”
Psalm 55:23
“But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee”
Revelation 20:15
“And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire”
