When we observe the wicked succeeding in life, we wonder how this came to be. However, we must understand that God has his own schedule and that he would not pardon the wicked for their misdeeds.
They will receive punishment in God’s appointed time. According to the Bible, everyone will stand before God’s judgment, and the wicked will be punished then.
Instead of concentrating on them, believers should put their faith in the Lord, who will reward each of us based on the good deeds we perform. The wicked will experience the Lord’s anger in an endless torment from which no one will be able to escape.
Let us meditate upon the scripture below in order to be assured of how and when the Lord will punish the wicked.
Ecclesiastes 8:11(KJV) “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.”
Job 34:26(KJV) “He striketh them as wicked men in the open sight of others;”
Matthew 25:46(KJV) “And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.”
Psalm 58:10(KJV) “The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.”
Proverbs 17:15(KJV) “He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the Lord.”
Proverbs 21:18(KJV) “The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.”
Proverbs 16:4(KJV) “The Lord hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.”
Isaiah 3:11(KJV) “Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.”
Proverbs 10:16(KJV) “The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.”
Psalm 28:4(KJV) “Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert.”
Job 21:19(KJV) “God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.”
Psalm 34:21(KJV) “Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.”
2 Peter 2:9(KJV) “The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished.”
Ezekiel 18:21(KJV) “But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.”
Ezekiel 18:20(KJV) “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 11:6(KJV) “Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.”
Proverbs 5:22(KJV) “His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.”
Ezekiel 18:23(KJV) “Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord God: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?”
Psalm 91:8(KJV) “Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.”
Ezekiel 33:11(KJV) “Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?”
Ezekiel 3:18(KJV) “When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.”
Psalm 59:5(KJV) “Thou therefore, O Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah.”
Job 31:3(KJV) “Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?”
Matthew 25:41(KJV) “Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.”
2 Thessalonians 1:9(KJV) “Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;”
