32 Bible Verses about Evil Plans
Most Relevant Verses
Do not drag me away with the wicked and with troublemakers who speak of peace with their neighbors but have evil in their hearts.
He plans wickedness upon his bed. He walks on a path that is not good. He does not despise evil.
How long will all of you attack a man? How long will you try to murder him, as though he were a leaning wall or a sagging fence?
Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning comes they do it because they are able to (it is in the power of their hands).
Why do the nations conspire together and rage? Why do the peoples plot in vain?
Those who seek my life lay traps for me. Those who are out to harm me talk about ruining me. All day long they think of ways to deceive me.
The Lord Jehovah says: 'It will come about on that day, that thoughts will come into your mind and you will devise an evil plan.
There is one who comes out from you [O Nineveh]. He counsels wickedness and devises evil against Jehovah.
As for a rogue, his weapons are evil. He devises wicked schemes to destroy the afflicted with slander, even though the needy one speaks what is right.
You saw the lips of those who came up against me, and their thoughts against me all the day.
You saw all the evil they did to me and all their designs against me.
Their bitter words have come to your ears, O Jehovah, and all their designs against me.
Deceit is in the heart of those who contrive evil, but the counselors of peace have joy.
Do they not err that devise evil? Those who devise good will find loving kindness and truth.
They become hot inside like an oven while they lie in ambush. All night long their anger smolders, but in the morning it burns like a raging fire.
Although I trained (disciplined) and strengthened their arms (might) (power), yet they devise evil against me.
Do not oppress the widow. Do not oppress the fatherless. Do not oppress the stranger and do not oppress the poor. And you should not devise evil in your heart against your brother.
Let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor. Do not love a false oath (perjury): for all these are things that I hate, said Jehovah.
The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to Jehovah. The words of the pure are pleasant words.
Suffer you unwilling children, says Jehovah. You pursue a purpose that is not mine. You make a covenant sacrifice without my Spirit. You add sin to sin.
Jehovah said to me: Son of man, these are the men who plan evil and give bad advice in this city (Jerusalem).
In time of security he will come even upon the richest places of the province. He will do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers. He will scatter among them prey, and spoil, and substance. He will devise his devices against the strongholds, even for a time.
He will stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army. The king of the south will war in battle with an exceeding great and mighty army, but he will not stand. This is because they will devise schemes against him.
