Proverbs 24:8

Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

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

Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.

Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?

In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.

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

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.

for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.

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

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.

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

The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them, but the unfaithful will be trapped by evil desires.

Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”

He said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity, and who give wicked counsel in this city;

What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won’t rise up the second time.

He sent them to Bethlehem, and said, “Go and search diligently for the young child. When you have found him, bring me word, so that I also may come and worship him.”

Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

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

“Their feet are swift to shed blood.

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,

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

When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed is Yahweh, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil. Yahweh has returned the evildoing of Nabal on his own head.” David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to himself as wife.

He frustrates the plans of the crafty, So that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.

The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.

For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.

For they don’t speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

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

How long will you assault a man? Would all of you throw him down, like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

The haters of Yahweh would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever.

“Come,” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”

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

A good man shall obtain favor from Yahweh, but he will condemn a man of wicked plans.

Don’t they go astray who plot evil? But love and faithfulness belong to those who plan good.

There are many plans in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail.

Mockers stir up a city, but wise men turn away anger.

who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.

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.

Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths.

Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?

“Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘As I live, I will surely bring on his own head my oath that he has despised and my covenant that he has broken.

Don’t oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’

and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate,” says Yahweh.

Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.

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?

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

He said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, Yahweh has led me on the way to the house of my master’s relatives.”

Beware that there not be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,” and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.

For I have told him that I will judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons brought a curse on themselves, and he didn’t restrain them.

Nabal answered David’s servants, and said, “Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants who break away from their masters these days.

Now may Yahweh show loving kindness and truth to you. I also will reward you for this kindness, because you have done this thing.

Whereas you came but yesterday, should I today make you go up and down with us, since I go where I may? Return, and take back your brothers. Mercy and truth be with you.”

The king said moreover to Shimei, “You know in your heart all the wickedness that you did to David my father. Therefore Yahweh will return your wickedness on your own head.

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.”

Again he sent to him another captain of fifty with his fifty. He answered him, “Man of God, the king has said, ‘Come down quickly!’ ”

But Yahweh said to David my father, ‘Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart;

who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil,

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

a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,

The thoughts of the righteous are just, but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.

He who is quick to become angry will commit folly, and a crafty man is hated.

Yahweh detests the thoughts of the wicked, but the thoughts of the pure are pleasing.

That which makes a man to be desired is his kindness. A poor man is better than a liar.

He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.

for their hearts plot violence and their lips talk about mischief.

The schemes of folly are sin. The mocker is detested by men.

A dishonest man detests the righteous, and the upright in their ways detest the wicked.

The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked plans to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.

But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can’t rest and its waters cast up mire and mud.

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

For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.

There is one gone out of you, who devises evil against Yahweh, who counsels wickedness.

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

Immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, said to them, “Why do you reason these things in your hearts?

covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.

For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

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

in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)

Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.