18 Bible Verses about Evil Devices
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For their thoughts were bitter against you: they had an evil design in their minds, which they were not able to put into effect.
Take your rest in the Lord, waiting quietly for him; do not be angry because of the man who does well in his evil ways, and gives effect to his bad designs.
O Lord, give not the wrongdoer his desire; give him no help in his evil designs, or he may be uplifted in pride. (Selah.)
But they will say, There is no hope: we will go on in our designs, and every one of us will do what he is moved by the pride of his evil heart to do.
He gives thought to evil on his bed; he takes a way which is not good; he is not a hater of evil.
Will not the designers of evil come into error? But mercy and good faith are for the designers of good.
The designs of the false are evil, purposing the destruction of the poor man by false words, even when he is in the right.
Then he said to me, Son of man, these are the men who are designing evil, who are teaching evil ways in this town:
A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power.
But when the business was put before the king, he gave orders by letters that the evil design which he had made against the Jews was to be turned against himself; and that he and his sons were to be put to death by hanging.
Who makes the designs of the wise go wrong, so that they are unable to give effect to their purposes.
The evil-doer in his pride is cruel to the poor; let him be taken by the tricks of his invention.
The Lord undoes the designs of the nations; he makes the thoughts of the peoples without effect.
A good man has grace in the eyes of the Lord; but the man of evil designs gets punishment from him.
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