Thematic Bible: Devices of


Thematic Bible



Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

He devises mischief upon his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he abhors not evil.

He that plans to do evil shall be called a mischievous person.

And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own plans, and we will everyone do the imagination of his evil heart.



Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.

He shuts his eyes to devise perverse things: moving his lips he brings evil to pass.

The schemes also of the schemer are evil: he devises wicked plans to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaks justly.

Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise iniquity, and give wicked counsel in this city:




Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.


For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begins with us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.

What fruit had you then in those things of which you are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

But that which bears thorns and briars is worthless, and is near unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.

Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.


Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves:

And be not like your fathers, and like your brethren, who trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as you see.

Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.


And she said, The Philistines be upon you, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he knew not that the LORD was departed from him.

And when Saul inquired of the LORD, the LORD answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.

So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.


Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O you house of Israel, have you offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?




Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.

His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be held with the cords of his sins.

For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is fully mixed; and he pours out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall drain them down, and drink them.

But you, O God, shall bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in you.

The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.

When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed forever:


For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, you shall diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.



Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I punish them they shall be cast down, says the LORD.

They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Your god, O Dan, lives; and, The way of Beersheba lives; even they shall fall, and never rise up again.

The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

He that digs a pit shall fall into it; and whosoever breaks through a wall, a serpent shall bite him.

I will not punish your daughters when they commit harlotry, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for the men themselves are gone apart with harlots, and they sacrifice with prostitutes: therefore the people that do not understand shall fall.

Moreover you shall say unto them, Thus says the LORD; Shall they fall, and not rise? shall he turn away, and not return?


And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the holy place, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.

His memory shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.


I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:

Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

For he comes in with vanity, and departs in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.



A good man obtains favor of the LORD: but a man of wicked intentions will he condemn.

The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing: he makes the devices of the people of none effect.

But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked plot, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their plans.



For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.


Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.