Proverbs 6:18

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;

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

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,

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.

“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.”

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.

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

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

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.

Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;

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;

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.

Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

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

“You shall not wrong an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

This is so that innocent blood will not be shed in the middle of your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, leaving blood guilt on you.

Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before Yahweh; and his name was Doeg the Edomite, the best of the herdsmen who belonged to Saul.

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.

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.

arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

For whoever finds me, finds life, and will obtain favor from Yahweh.

An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in sin.

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

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

“Their feet are swift to shed blood.

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.

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

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

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.’

“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.

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

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

He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.

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

But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children,

Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.

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

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

A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.

One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.

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

Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

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.

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

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.

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?

They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t defend the rights of the needy.

I have seen your abominations, even your adulteries, and your neighing, the lewdness of your prostitution, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, Jerusalem! You will not be made clean. How long will it yet be?”

The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

Because they have forsaken me, and have defiled this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods that they didn’t know, they, their fathers, and the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents,

It was so, when they came into the middle of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah killed them, and cast them into the middle of the pit, he, and the men who were with him.

The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.

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

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.

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.

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

The Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.

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

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.

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

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

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

“ ‘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.

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.’