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 only good. The expectation of the wicked is wrath.
Proverbs 24:9
The schemes of folly are sin. The mocker is detested by men.
Psalm 119:15
I will meditate on your precepts, and consider your ways.
Psalm 139:23
Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.
Isaiah 55:7
let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Jeremiah 4:14
Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?
Counsels
Psalm 12:2
Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.
Psalm 36:2
For he flatters himself in his own eyes, too much to detect and hate his sin.
Psalm 41:6
If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.
Psalm 140:1
Deliver me, Yahweh, from the evil man. Preserve me from the violent man;
Matthew 2:3
When King Herod heard it, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.
Matthew 26:4
They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit, and kill him.
1 Corinthians 4:5
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.
2 Corinthians 4:2
But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.