32 Bible Verses about Evil Plans
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For they intended evil against thee; they imagined a wicked device, but they did not prevail.
Do not catch me away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbours, but evil is in their hearts.
He devises iniquity upon his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he does not abhor evil.
How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? Shall ye murder each other until ye are as a bowing wall and as a tottering fence?
Woe unto those that devise iniquity and fabricate evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they put it into effect because they have power in their hands.
Why do the Gentiles rage, and the peoples imagine a vain thing?
Those that seek after my life lay snares for me, and those that seek my hurt speak calamities and imagine deceits all the day long.
Thus hath the Lord GOD said: It shall also come to pass in that day, that words shall rise up in thy heart, and thou shalt conceive an evil thought:
He has come out of thee that has imagined evil against the LORD, a counsellor of Belial.
Certainly the greedy use evil measures: he devises wicked devices to ensnare the simple with lying words and to speak in judgment against the poor.
Zain The wicked plots against the just and gnashes upon him with his teeth.
Schin The words of those that rose up against me, and their design against me all the day.
Resh Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.
Schin Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;
The thoughts of the righteous are upright, but the astuteness of the wicked is deceit.
Deceit is in the heart of those whose thoughts are evil, but joy in that of those whose thoughts are good.
Do they not err that meditate upon evil? but those that meditate upon good shall attain mercy and truth.
For they have made ready their heart like an oven while they lie in wait; their baker sleeps all night; in the morning it burns as a flaming fire.
Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet they imagine evil against me.
and do not oppress the widow nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
and let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, said the LORD.
The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD, but the speech of the pure is pure.
Woe to the sons that leave, saith the LORD, to make counsel, but not of me; to cover themselves with a covering, and not by my spirit, adding sin unto sin!
Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise mischief and give wicked counsel in this city:
With the province in peace and in abundance, he shall enter and do that which his fathers have never done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall distribute prey and spoil and riches to his soldiers; and against the fortresses he shall forecast his devices, even for a time.
And he shall stir up his forces and his heart against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south shall move to the war with a great and mighty army, but he shall not prevail, for they shall betray him.
Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah have taken evil counsel against thee saying,
