Proverbs 4:16

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;

Mordecai went out of the presence of the king in royal clothing of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a robe of fine linen and purple; and the city of Susa shouted and was glad.

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

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

Pilate therefore entered again into the Praetorium, called Jesus, and said to him, “Are you the King of the Jews?”

He entered into the Praetorium again, and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer.

We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

Then Judah came near to him, and said, “Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord’s ears, and don’t let your anger burn against your servant; for you are even as Pharaoh.

The king said, “Who is in the court?” Now Haman had come into the outer court of the king’s house, to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.

Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs who were with the king said, “Behold, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman has made for Mordecai, who spoke good for the king, is standing at Haman’s house.” The king said, “Hang him on it!”

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

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

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

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

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.

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;

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.

Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:

Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium, and gathered the whole garrison together against him.

Immediately in the morning the chief priests, with the elders and scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, bound Jesus, carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate.

“Their feet are swift to shed blood.

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh.

You have been rebellious against Yahweh from the day that I knew you.

Ziph, Telem, Bealoth,

Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Jutah,

Moreover, my father, behold, yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of your robe, and didn’t kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor disobedience in my hand, and I have not sinned against you, though you hunt for my life to take it.

Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me now choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David tonight.

Jezebel his wife said to him, “Do you now govern the kingdom of Israel? Arise, and eat bread, and let your heart be merry. I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”

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

“Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,

In peace I will both lay myself down and sleep, for you, Yahweh alone, make me live in safety.

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

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 are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble. You will surround me with songs of deliverance.

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

For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off—

But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”

Of Damascus: “Hamath is confounded, and Arpad; for they have heard evil news. They have melted away. There is sorrow on the sea. It can’t be quiet.

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

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.

The soldiers led him away within the court, which is the Praetorium; and they called together the whole cohort.

saying, “You went in to uncircumcised men, and ate with them!”

As also the high priest and all the council of the elders testify, from whom also I received letters to the brothers, and traveled to Damascus to bring them also who were there to Jerusalem in bonds to be punished.

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

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

For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;

Yahweh said, “Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,

But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.

See now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them what seems good to you. Only don’t do anything to these men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof.”

It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.’

They said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us this way, to bring us out of Egypt?

The people murmured against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”

Notwithstanding they didn’t listen to Moses, but some of them left of it until the morning, so it bred worms and became foul; and Moses was angry with them.

“You shall not follow a crowd to do evil. You shall not testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice.

Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people. Your eyes will look, and fail with longing for them all day long. There will be no power in your hand.

His sons didn’t walk in his ways, but turned away after dishonest gain, took bribes, and perverted justice.

Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of Yahweh, and your words, because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.

The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.

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

Man goes out to his work, to his labor until the evening.

Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

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

Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; for the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him.

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

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

For you have trusted in your wickedness. You have said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and your knowledge has perverted you. You have said in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me.’

“Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in its wide places, if you can find a man, if there is anyone who does justly, who seeks truth, then I will pardon her.

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.

She is weary with toil; yet her great rust, rust by fire, doesn’t leave her.

Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.

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

But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

On the third day, when they were sore, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword, came upon the unsuspecting city, and killed all the males.

Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.”

Aaron said, “Don’t let the anger of my lord grow hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil.

Now therefore, go up by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field.

David stayed in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill country in the wilderness of Ziph. Saul sought him every day, but God didn’t deliver him into his hand.

Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate. When any man had a suit which should come to the king for judgment, then Absalom called to him, and said, “What city are you from?” He said, “Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.”

Then when the copy of king Artaxerxes’ letter was read before Rehum, Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went in haste to Jerusalem to the Jews, and made them to cease by force of arms.

The couriers went out in haste by the king’s commandment, and the decree was given out in the citadel of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city of Susa was perplexed.

Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, “Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on it. Then go in merrily with the king to the banquet.” This pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.

Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go out to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.

in whose hands is wickedness, their right hand is full of bribes.

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

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

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.

Friends deceive each other, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves commiting iniquity.

For they have prepared their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait. Their baker sleeps all the night. In the morning it burns as a flaming fire.

Therefore having received that morsel, he went out immediately. It was night.

Now therefore, you with the council inform the commanding officer that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to judge his case more exactly. We are ready to kill him before he comes near.”

Then the high priest and the principal men of the Jews informed him against Paul, and they begged him,

having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;

The unclean spirit, when he has gone out of the man, passes through dry places, seeking rest, and finding none, he says, ‘I will turn back to my house from which I came out.’

As soon as it was day, the assembly of the elders of the people were gathered together, both chief priests and scribes, and they led him away into their council, saying,

They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn’t enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.