Micah 2:1

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Summary

Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.

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Work

Psalm 36:4

Proverbs 4:16

Because

General references

Proverbs 4:16

Ezekiel 11:2

Mark 7:20

Bible References

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And Haman said to king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of thy kingdom, and their laws are diverse from [those of] every people, nor do they keep the king's

Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak thou to the king that Mordecai may be hanged on it. Then go thou in merrily with the king to the banquet. And t

But when [the matter] came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he had devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

Behold [the wicked man], he travails with iniquity. Yea, he has conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man. Preserve me from the violent man,

A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth,

A good man shall obtain favor of LORD, but he will condemn a man of wicked devices.

And the instruments of the churl are evil. He devises wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies. Your tongue mutters wickedness.

Then they said, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah. For the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not gi

And he said to me, Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity, and who give wicked counsel in this city,

He has gone forth out of thee, who devises evil against LORD, who counsels wickedness.

And the chief priests and the scholars sought to throw hands on him in the same hour. And they were afraid, for they knew that he spoke this parable against them.

And the chief priests and the scholars sought how they might kill him, for they feared the people.

And when it became day, some of the Jews, having made a conspiracy, put themselves under a curse, saying neither to eat nor to drink until they would kill Paul.

being gossips, slanderous, God-hating, aggressors, arrogant boasters, contrivers of evil things, disobedient to parents;

Work

He devises iniquity upon his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He does not abhor evil.

For they do not sleep unless they do evil. And their sleep is taken away unless they cause to fall.

Because

It is in the power of my hand to do you harm, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, Take heed to thyself that thou not speak to Jacob either good or bad.

Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given to another people. And thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day, and there shall be nothing in the power of thy hand.

Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thy hand to do it.

Jesus answered him, Thou would have no authority against me, unless it were given thee from above. Because of this he who delivered me to thee has greater sin.

General references

For they do not sleep unless they do evil. And their sleep is taken away unless they cause to fall.

And he said to me, Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity, and who give wicked counsel in this city,

And he said, That which comes out of the man, that defiles the man.