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wickedness

Meaning of “wickedness”

Moral evil, sin, iniquity, injustice, perversity, or corrupt intent or conduct.

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127 occurrences119 verses32 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Genesis 6:5

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Luke 11:39
And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.
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The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Luke 11:39 · retained source text

And the Lord said vnto him, Now doe ye Pharises make cleane the outside of the cup and the platter: but your inward part is full of rauening and wickednesse.

1611 marginal noteMat. 23.25.

Acts 8:22
Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Acts 8:22 · retained source text

Repent therefore of this thy wickednesse, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiuen thee.

Acts 25:5
Let them therefore, said he, which among you are able, go down with me, and accuse this man, if there be any wickedness in him.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Acts 25:5 · retained source text

Let them therefore, said he, which among you are able, go downe with me, and accuse this man, if there be any wickednesse in him.

Romans 1:29
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
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1611 witness · Romans 1:29 · retained source text

Being filled with all vnrighteousnes, fornication, wickednesse, couetousnes, maliciousnes, full of enuie, murther, debate, deceit, malignitie, whisperers,

1 Corinthians 5:8
Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
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1611 witness · 1 Corinthians 5:8 · retained source text

Therefore let vs keepe the Feast, not with old leauen, neither with the leauen of malice and wickednesse: but with the vnleauened bread of sinceritie and trueth.

1611 marginal noteOr, holiday.

Ephesians 6:12
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
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1611 witness · Ephesians 6:12 · retained source text

For wee wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darknes of this world, against spirituall wickednes in high places.

1611 marginal noteOr, wicked spirits.

1611 marginal noteOr, heauenly.

1 John 5:19
And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.
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1611 witness · 1 John 5:19 · retained source text

And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickednesse.

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