32 Bible Verses about Evil Plans
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For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.
He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.
How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.
Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counselor.
The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.
The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.
Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counselors of peace is joy.
Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.
For they have made ready their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.
Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.
And oppress not 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 neighbor; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the LORD.
A heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that are swift in running to mischief,
The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD: but the words of the pure are pleasant words.
Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not from me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:
Then said he to me, Son of man, these are the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city:
He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yes, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.
And he shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south shall be stirred up to battle with a very great and mighty army; but he shall not stand: for they shall forecast devices against him.
Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying,
