GUIDE TO THE SCRIPTURES
Wicked, Wickedness
See also Darkness, Spiritual; Filth, Filthiness; Sin; Ungodly; Unrighteous, Unrighteousness

Evil, iniquity; to be disobedient to God's commandments.

How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God? Gen. 39: 7-9. The Lord is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous, Prov. 15: 29. When the wicked rule, the people mourn, Prov. 29: 2 (D&C 98: 9). Put away from among yourselves that wicked person, 1 Cor. 5: 13. We wrestle against spiritual wickedness in high places, Eph. 6: 12. Come ye out from the wicked, and touch not their unclean things, Alma 5: 56-57 (D&C 38: 42). This is the final state of the wicked, Alma 34: 35 (Alma 40: 13-14). Wickedness never was happiness, Alma 41: 10. It is by the wicked that the wicked are punished, Morm. 4: 5 (D&C 63: 33). At that hour cometh an entire separation of the righteous and the wicked, D&C 63: 54. Thus cometh the end of the wicked, JS-M 1: 55.