18 Bible Verses about Evil Devices
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For they intended evil against thee; they imagined a mischievous device, which they could not execute.
Rest in Jehovah, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him that prospereth in his way, because of the man that bringeth mischievous devices to pass.
Grant not, O Jehovah, the desire of the wicked; further not his device: they would exalt themselves. Selah.
But they say, There is no hope; for we will walk after our own devices, and we will each one do according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.
He deviseth wickedness up on his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good: he abhorreth not evil.
Do they not err that devise evil? but loving-kindness and truth are for those that devise good.
The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the meek with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
And he said unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise iniquity, and give wicked counsel in this city:
Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
and when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he had devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head; and they hanged him and his sons on the gallows.
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, and their hands carry not out the enterprise.
The wicked, in his pride, doth hotly pursue the afflicted. They shall be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
Jehovah frustrateth the counsel of the nations; he maketh the thoughts of the peoples of none effect.
a heart that deviseth wicked imaginations; feet that are swift in running to mischief;
A good man obtaineth favour of Jehovah; but a man of mischievous devices will he condemn.
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