Proverbs 12:5
The thoughts of the righteous are just. The counsels of the wicked are deceitful.
Psalm 12:2-3
People speak lies to one another. They speak with flattering lips and with double-heart. (Double Heart: They say one thing but mean another.)
Psalm 36:2-4
He flatters himself and does not hate or even recognize his sin.
Psalm 41:6-7
When one of them comes to visit me, he speaks falsehood. His heart collects gossip. Then he leaves to tell others.
Psalm 119:15
I will meditate on your precepts and regard your ways.
Psalm 139:23
Examine me, O God, and know my heart. Test me and know my anxious (troubled) (painful) (disturbing) thoughts.
Psalm 140:1-3
([Psalm of David]) Rescue me from evil people, O Jehovah. Keep me safe from violent people.
Proverbs 11:23
The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is intense anger.
Proverbs 24:9
The thought of foolishness is sin. The mocker is an abomination to men.
Isaiah 55:7
Let the wicked forsake his way and the evil man his thoughts. Let him turn to Jehovah, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will freely pardon.
Jeremiah 4:14
O Jerusalem, wash the evil from your heart so that you may be saved. How long will your wicked thoughts lodge within you?
Matthew 2:3-8
King Herod was troubled when he heard this. Jerusalem was also troubled.
Matthew 2:16
Herod saw that the astrologers tricked him and he was furious. He sent soldiers to kill all the boys two years old and younger in or near Bethlehem. This matched the time he learned from the astrologers.
Matthew 26:4
All of them, using deceit, worked together to capture Jesus and kill him.
1 Corinthians 4:5
Do not judge anything before the time. Wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and make apparent the counsels of the hearts. Then each man's praise will come from God.
2 Corinthians 4:2
We have renounced the hidden things of shame. And we do not walk in craftiness and deceit. We do not adulterate the word of God. But by the manifestation of the truth we commend ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.