Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
Bible References
Thoughts
Proverbs 11:23
The desire of the righteous is acceptable; but the hope of the ungodly is indignation.
Proverbs 24:9
The thought of the foolish is sin, and the scornful is an abomination unto men.
Psalm 119:15
I will exercise myself in thy commandments, and have respect unto thy footpaths.
Psalm 139:23
Try me, O God, and seek the ground of mine heart; prove me, and examine my thoughts.
Isaiah 55:7
Let the ungodly man forsake his ways and the unrighteous his imaginations, and turn again unto the LORD: so shall he be merciful unto him; and to our God, for he is ready to forgive.
Jeremiah 4:14
O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be helped. How long shall thy noisesome thoughts remain with thee?
Counsels
Psalm 12:2
They talk of vanity every one with his neighbour; they do but flatter with their lips, and dissemble in their double heart.
Psalm 36:2
For he flattereth himself in his own sight, until his abominable sin be found out.
Psalm 41:6
And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity, and his heart conceiveth falsehood within himself; and when he cometh forth, he telleth it.
Psalm 140:1
{To the Chanter, a Psalm of David} Deliver me, o LORD, from the evil men, and preserve me from the wicked men,
Matthew 2:3
When Herod the king had heard this, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.
Matthew 26:4
and held a counsel, how they might take Jesus by subtlety, and kill him.
1 Corinthians 4:5
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, which will lighten things that are hid in darkness: and open the counsels of the hearts. And then shall every man have praise of God.
2 Corinthians 4:2
but have cast from us the cloaks of unhonesty, and walk not in craftiness, neither corrupt we the word of God: but walk in open truth, and report ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.