31 Bible Verses about Evil Plans
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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.
For their hearts are full of evil designs; and they are ever making ready causes of war.
Do not take me away with the sinners and the workers of evil, who say words of peace to their neighbours, but evil is in their hearts.
He gives thought to evil on his bed; he takes a way which is not good; he is not a hater of evil.
How long will you go on designing evil against a man? running against him as against a broken wall, which is on the point of falling?
A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power.
The purpose of the foolish is sin: and the hater of authority is disgusting to others.
Why are the nations so violently moved, and why are the thoughts of the people so foolish?
This is what the Lord has said: In that day it will come about that things will come into your mind, and you will have thoughts of an evil design:
One has gone out from you who is designing evil against the Lord, whose purposes are of no value.
The designs of the false are evil, purposing the destruction of the poor man by false words, even when he is in the right.
The sinner has evil designs against the upright, lifting up the voice of wrath against him.
The lips of those who came up against me, and their thoughts against me all the day.
You have seen all the evil rewards they have sent on me, and all their designs against me.
Their bitter words have come to your ears, O Lord, and all their designs against me;
Deceit is in the heart of those whose designs are evil, but for those purposing peace there is joy.
Will not the designers of evil come into error? But mercy and good faith are for the designers of good.
For they have made their hearts ready like an oven, while they are waiting secretly; their wrath is sleeping all night; in the morning it is burning like a flaming fire.
Though I have given training and strength to their arms, they have evil designs against me.
Do not be hard on the widow, or the child without a father, on the man from a strange country, or on the poor; let there be no evil thought in your heart against your brother.
Let no one have any evil thought in his heart against his neighbour; and have no love for false oaths: for all these things are hated by me, says the Lord.
Evil designs are disgusting to the Lord, but the words of the clean-hearted are pleasing.
Ho! uncontrolled children, says the Lord, who give effect to a purpose which is not mine, and who make an agreement, but not by my spirit, increasing their sin:
Then he said to me, Son of man, these are the men who are designing evil, who are teaching evil ways in this town:
Against fertile places, and will make waste a part of the country; and he will do what his fathers have not done, or his fathers' fathers; he will make distribution among them of goods taken in war and by force, and of property: he will even make designs against the strong places for a time.
And he will put in motion his power and his strength against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south will go to war with a very great and strong army: but he will be forced to give way, because of their designs against him;
