Wicked Work

The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward.

Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

• Exemplified
• Assurance
• Power

And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.

For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.

• Character

And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled

Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?

There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.

• Daysman

This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked. If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent. The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?

The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.

The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.

• Tested
• Heart

I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars: