Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.

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Bible References

Wickedness

Matthew 7:16
you will know them by their fruits: do men gather grapes of thorns,
Matthew 12:33
Either allow the tree to be good, and its fruit good; or else say the tree is corrupt, and its fruit corrrupt: for a tree is distinguished by its fruit.
Matthew 15:19
out of the heart proceed evil designs, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimony, slanders.

General references

Matthew 15:18
but what proceeds out of the mouth, is deriv'd from the heart, and that defiles the man.