'Schemes' in the Bible

But if a man schemes against his neighbor to kill him by treachery, you will take him from my altar to die.

So it happened that the Jews who were living near them came and warned us repeatedly about all the schemes they were plotting against us.

He frustrates the schemes of the craftyso that they achieve no success.

[He] is capturing [the] wise in their craftiness, and the schemes of the wily are rushed.

‘Is it right for You indeed to oppress,To reject the labor of Your hands,And to look favorably on the schemes of the wicked?

His powerful stride is shortened,and his own schemes trip him up.

Look, their prosperity [is] not in their hands; the schemes of [the] wicked are repugnant to me.

I know your thoughts very well,the schemes you would wrong me with.

Yet he himself filled up their houses [with] good [things], but [the] schemes of [the] wicked are repugnant to me.

Punish them, God;let them fall by their own schemes.Drive them out because of their many crimes,for they rebel against You.

In arrogance the wicked relentlessly pursue the afflicted;let them be caught in the schemes they have devised.

Though they plot evil against you and devise schemes, they will not succeed.

in whose hands are evil schemesand whose right hands are filled with bribes.

You hide them in the protection of Your presence;You conceal them in a shelterfrom the schemes of men,from quarrelsome tongues.

Do not let those who are my enemies for no reason gloat over me! Do not let those who hate me without cause carry out their wicked schemes!

For they do not speak in friendly ways,but contrive deceitful schemesagainst those who live peacefully in the land.

Be silent in the LORD's presence and wait patiently for him. Don't be angry because of the one whose way prospers or the one who implements evil schemes.

The wicked person schemes against the righteousand gnashes his teeth at him.

Confuse [my enemies], O Lord, divide their tongues [destroying their schemes],For I have seen violence and strife in the city.

All day long people distort what I say; all their schemes against me are for evil purposes.

They devise wicked schemes, saying, "We have completed our plans, hiding them deep in our hearts."

They devise clever schemes against Your people;they conspire against Your treasured ones.

they will eat the fruit of their wayand be glutted with their own schemes.

a heart that plots wicked schemes,feet eager to run to evil,

The good person obtains favor from the Lord,but He condemns a man who schemes.

A quick-tempered man acts foolishly,and a man who schemes is hated.

The schemes of folly are sin. The mocker is detested by men.

Only see this: I have discovered that God made people upright, but they pursued many schemes.”

Furthermore, the crimes of bad people are evil; and they devise wicked schemes, destroying the poor with lying words, even when needy people plead a just cause.

according to your multiple schemes. Let them stand up now those who conjure the heavens and gaze at the stars, predicting at the new moons and save you from what is about to happen to them.

Jerusalem, wash your evil from your heart so that you may be delivered. How long will you harbor evil schemes within you?

“Hear, O earth: behold, I am bringing disaster on this people,The fruit of their schemes,Because they have not listened and paid attention to My words,And as for My law, they have rejected it also.

What right does My beloved haveto be in My house,having carried out so many evil schemes?Can holy meat prevent your disasterso you can rejoice?

I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter. I didn't know that they had devised schemes against me. They told themselves, "Let's destroy the tree with its fruit. Let's eliminate him from the land of the living, so his name won't be remembered again."

Then [my enemies] said, “Come and let us work out schemes against Jeremiah. Surely the law is not going to be lost to the priest [as Jeremiah predicts], nor the counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come and let us strike him with our tongue [by making charges against him before the king], and let us ignore anything he says.”

But the Lord is with me as a dread champion [one to be greatly feared];Therefore my persecutors will stumble and not overcome [me].They will be completely shamed, for they have not acted wisely and have failed [in their schemes];Their eternal dishonor will never be forgotten.

You have seen all their vengeance,All their schemes against me.

You have heard their reproach, O Lord,All their schemes against me.

By his treachery he will succeed through deceit. He will have an arrogant attitude, and he will destroy many who are unaware of his schemes. He will rise up against the Prince of princes, yet he will be broken apart -- but not by human agency.

In a time of tranquility he will enter the richest parts of the realm, and he will accomplish what his fathers never did, nor his ancestors; he will distribute plunder, booty and possessions among them, and he will devise his schemes against strongholds, but only for a time.

He'll encourage himself against the southern king by raising a large army. As a result, the southern king will mobilize for war with a large and powerful army, but he won't succeed because they will devise elaborate schemes against him.

"When I was healing Israel, Ephraim's sin was uncovered, along with Samaria's wickedness. While they craft lying schemes, the thief invades, and the gang of thieves plunders outside.

The royal advisers delight the king with their evil schemes, the princes make him glad with their lies.

A sword will whirl through his cities;it will destroy and devour the bars of his gates,because of their schemes.

Your schemes will bring shame to your house. Because you destroyed many nations, you will self-destruct.

so that no advantage would be taken of us by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes.

So we are no longer to be children, tossed back and forth by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching by the trickery of people who craftily carry out their deceitful schemes.

Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil.