Proverbs 24:2

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

Also to you, Lord, belongs loving kindness, for you reward every man according to his work.

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

When the king of Israel had read the letter, he tore his clothes, and said, “Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends to me to heal a man of his leprosy? But please consider and see how he seeks a quarrel against me.”

His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

“Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”

Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness will be his reward.

His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

Don’t gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men;

When his speech is charming, don’t believe him, for there are seven abominations in his heart.

Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, “Please bring the ephod here to me.” Abiathar brought the ephod to David.

For the work of a man he will render to him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.

Behold, he travails with iniquity. Yes, he has conceived mischief, and brought out falsehood.

Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

“You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.

They conspire and lurk, watching my steps. They are eager to take my life.

They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly.

For they don’t sleep unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

I have spread out my hands all day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;

Their tongue is a deadly arrow. It speaks deceit. One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart, he waits to ambush him.

“I, Yahweh, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”

great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of men, to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings;

You have plowed wickedness. You have reaped iniquity. You have eaten the fruit of lies, for you trusted in your way, in the multitude of your mighty men.

Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Yahweh says concerning the prophets who lead my people astray; for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, “Peace!” and whoever doesn’t provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him:

the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the children of the Kingdom; and the darnel weeds are the children of the evil one.

For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds.

Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;

Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin. The sin, when it is full grown, produces death.

When Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, he came down with an ephod in his hand.

They conceive mischief, and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.”

“Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,

But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.

Help, Yahweh; for the godly man ceases. For the faithful fail from among the children of men.

Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God’s loving kindness endures continually.

Don’t devise evil against your neighbor, since he dwells securely by you.

A wicked man receives a bribe in secret, to pervert the ways of justice.

They will fall among those who are slain by the sword. She is delivered to the sword. Draw her away with all her multitudes.

“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “It will happen in that day that things will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.

They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh among us? No disaster will come on us.”

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.

“Behold, I come quickly. My reward is with me, to repay to each man according to his work.

He shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before Yahweh. At his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation.”

One of the sons of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.

David knew that Saul was devising mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod here.”

You who love Yahweh, hate evil! He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper’s poison is under their lips.

Therefore the Holy One of Israel says, “Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on it,

You will conceive chaff. You will give birth to stubble. Your breath is a fire that will devour you.

No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity, and speak lies. They conceive mischief, and give birth to iniquity.

Don’t trust in lying words, saying, ‘Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, are these.’

Behold, you trust in lying words that can’t profit.

Therefore I will give their wives to others and their fields to those who will possess them. For everyone from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness; from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.

For I know how many your offenses, and how great are your sins— you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn away the needy in the courts.

Woe to you lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge. You didn’t enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you hindered.”

and said, “You son of the devil, full of all deceit and all cunning, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, “Please notice how this man seeks mischief; for he sent to me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I didn’t deny him.”

He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.

those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war.

in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.

Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.

who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:”

One who plots to do evil will be called a schemer.