11 Bible Verses about Deviousness
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{who are crooked in their ways}, and devious in their paths;
Crooked is the way of a man and a foreigner, but the pure [is] upright [in] his conduct.
for he who is perverse [is] an abomination of Yahweh, but those who are upright [are] his confidence.
[in order] to deliver you from the way of evil, from a man who speaks devious things--
He who walks in uprightness fears Yahweh, but he who is devious [in] his ways displeases him.
[He] is frustrating [the] devices of [the] crafty, and their hands do not achieve success.
Shall I regard as pure [the one] with scales of wickedness, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
but from the tree that is in the midst of the garden, God said, 'You shall not eat from it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die'."
Put on the full armor of God, so that you may be able to stand against the stratagems of the devil,
And he went to his father and said, "My father." And he said, "Here I [am]. Who [are] you, my son?" And Jacob said to his father, "I [am] Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please get up, sit up and eat from my wild game so that you may bless me." Then Isaac said to his son, "{How} did you find [it] so quickly, my son?" And he said, "Because Yahweh your God {caused me to find it}."read more.
Then Isaac said to Jacob, "Please, come near and let me feel you, my son. {Are you really} my son Esau or not?" And Jacob drew near to Isaac his father. And he felt him and said, "The voice [is] the voice of Jacob, but the hands [are] the hands of Esau." And he did not recognize him because his hands were hairy like the hands of Esau his brother. And he blessed him. And he said, "{Are you really} my son Esau?" And he said, "I [am]." Then he said, "Bring [it] near to me that I may eat from the game of my son, so that I may bless you." And he brought [it] to him, and he ate. And he brought wine to him, and he drank. Then his father Isaac said to him, "Come near and kiss me, my son." And he drew near and kissed him. And he smelled the smell of his garments, and he blessed him and said, "Look, the smell of my son [is] like the smell of a field that Yahweh has blessed!
