15 Bible Verses about Imagination, Evil Scheming

because, having known God they did not glorify Him as God, nor gave thanks, but were made vain in their reasonings, and their unintelligent heart was darkened,

Through the pride of the wicked, Is the poor inflamed, They are caught in devices that they devised. Because the wicked hath boasted Of the desire of his soul, And a dishonest gainer he hath blessed, He hath despised Jehovah. The wicked according to the height of his face, inquireth not. 'God is not!' are all his devices.

but their minds were hardened, for unto this day the same vail at the reading of the Old Covenant doth remain unwithdrawn -- which in Christ is being made useless --

This, then, I say, and I testify in the Lord; ye are no more to walk, as also the other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind, being darkened in the understanding, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart,

all things, indeed, are pure to the pure, and to the defiled and unstedfast is nothing pure, but of them defiled are even the mind and the conscience;

Thine eyes see strange women, And thy heart speaketh perverse things.

in whom the god of this age did blind the minds of the unbelieving, that there doth not shine forth to them the enlightening of the good news of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God;

Also you -- being dead in the trespasses and the sins, in which once ye did walk according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience, among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath -- as also the others,

These six hath Jehovah hated, Yea, seven are abominations to His soul. Eyes high -- tongues false -- And hands shedding innocent blood -- A heart devising thoughts of vanity -- Feet hasting to run to evil --

and Jehovah saith, 'Lo, the people is one, and one pronunciation is to them all, and this it hath dreamed of doing; and now, nothing is restrained from them of that which they have purposed to do.

Iniquity he deviseth on his bed, He stationeth himself on a way not good, Evil he doth not refuse.'

They strengthen for themselves an evil thing, They recount of the hiding of snares, They have said, 'Who doth look at it?' They search out perverse things, 'We perfected a searching search,' And the inward part of man, and the heart are deep.

Frowardness is in his heart, devising evil at all times, Contentions he sendeth forth.

Deceit is in the heart of those devising evil, And to those counselling peace is joy.

Do not they err who are devising evil? And kindness and truth are to those devising good,