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V. Workers of Iniquity, like demons, help satan do his work in the world.
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These are people
in the world who occupy their time doing
those things that are against the righteousness of the LORD and His born
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These are flesh
& blood human beings giving the
members of their bodies to works that have their impulses from satan and
evil spirits.
Psalm 5:5
The foolish shall not stand in thy
sight: thou hatest all
workers of iniquity. (KJV)
Luke 13:27
But he shall say, I tell you, I know you
not whence ye are; depart
from me, all [ye] workers of iniquity. (KJV)
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Define:
"workers of iniquity."
a. workers
= G – ergates (er-gat'-ace) = workman; laborer;
usually one who works for hire; a perpetrator {one who commits an
offence};
= one who is occupied with an undertaking; deed; thing done.
b. iniquity
= H - 'aven (aw-ven') = wickedness; vanity; mischief;
evil; false;
= unrighteousness; unjust; trouble. to exert oneself in vain. = G – adikia
(ad-ee-kee'-ah) = wrong; unrighteousness; unjust;
= a deed violating law & justice; unrighteousness of heart and
justice.
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Some
uses in Scripture:
Job 34:21-22
For his eyes [are] upon the ways of
man, and he seeth all his goings. 22[There is] no darkness,
nor shadow of death, where the
workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
(KJV)
Psalm 14:4
Have all the
workers of iniquity no knowledge? who
eat up my people [as] they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD. (KJV)
Psalm 28:3-5
Draw me not away with the wicked, and
with the workers of
iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief [is] in
their hearts. 4Give 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. 5Because they
regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands,
he shall destroy them, and not build them up. (KJV)
Psalm 37:1-2
Fret not thyself because of evildoers,
neither be thou envious against the
workers of iniquity. 2For
they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green
herb. (KJV)
Psalm 64:2-6
Hide me from the conspiracy of the
wicked, from that noisy
crowd of evildoers. 3They
sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their words like deadly
arrows. 4They shoot from ambush at the innocent man; they
shoot at him suddenly, without fear. 5They encourage each
other in evil plans, they talk about hiding their snares; they say,
"Who will see them?" 6 They plot injustice and say, "We
have devised a perfect plan!" Surely the mind and heart of man
are cunning. (NIV)
Psalm 92:7
When the wicked spring as the grass,
and when all the
workers of iniquity do flourish; [it is] that they shall be destroyed
for ever: (KJV)
Psalm 94:3-7
LORD, how long shall the wicked, how
long shall the wicked
triumph? 4[How long] shall they
utter [and] speak hard things? [and]
all the workers of
iniquity boast themselves? 5They
break in pieces thy
people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage. 6They
slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless. 7Yet
they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob
regard [it]. (KJV)
Psalm 141:8-10
But mine eyes [are] unto thee, O GOD
the Lord: in thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute. 9Keep
me from the snares
[which] they have laid for me, and the gins
of the workers of
iniquity. 10Let the wicked
fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal escape. (KJV)
Proverbs 10:29
The way of the LORD [is] strength to
the upright: but destruction
[shall be] to the workers of iniquity.
(KJV)
Psalm 66:18
If I regard iniquity in my
heart, the Lord will not hear [me]: (KJV)
Matthew 13:41-42
The Son of man shall send forth his
angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom
all
things that offend, and them which do iniquity;
42And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall
be wailing and gnashing of teeth. (KJV)
James 3:6
And the tongue [is] a fire, a
world of iniquity: so is the tongue
among our members, that it
defileth the whole body, and setteth
on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. (KJV)
2 Timothy 2:19
Nevertheless the foundation of God
standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his.
And, Let every one that
nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
(KJV)
Matthew 24:8-13
All these [are] the beginning of
sorrows. 9Then shall they deliver you up to be
afflicted,
and shall kill you:
and ye shall be hated
of all nations for my name's sake. 10And
then shall many be
offended, and shall betray
one another, and shall hate
one another. 11And many
false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive
many. 12And because
iniquity shall abound, the
love of many shall wax cold. 13But
he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. (KJV)
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