Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

Backbiters

General references

Bible References

Backbiters

Proverbs 25:23

The north wind brings forth rain;
And a backbiting tongue, an angry countenance.

Haters

Romans 8:7
the mind of the flesh [with its sinful pursuits] is actively hostile to God. It does not submit itself to God’s law, since it cannot,
Numbers 10:35
Whenever the ark set out, Moses said,

“Rise up, O Lord!
Let Your enemies be scattered;
And let those who hate You flee before You.”
Deuteronomy 7:10
but repays those who hate Him to their faces, by destroying them; He will not hesitate with him who hates Him, He will repay him to his face.
2 Chronicles 19:2
Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the ungodly and love those who hate the Lord and in doing so bring wrath from the Lord on yourself?
Psalm 81:15

Those who hate the Lord would pretend obedience to Him and cringe before Him,
And their time of punishment would be forever.
Proverbs 8:36

“But he who fails to find me or sins against me injures himself;
All those who hate me love and court death.”
John 7:7
The world cannot hate you [since you are part of it], but it does hate Me because I denounce it and testify that its deeds are evil.
John 15:23
The one who hates Me also hates My Father.
Titus 3:3
For we too once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various sinful desires and pleasures, spending and wasting our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

Inventors

Psalm 99:8

You answered them, O Lord our God;
You were a forgiving God to them,
And yet an avenger of their evil practices.
Psalm 106:39

In this way they became unclean in their practices;
They played the prostitute in their own deeds [by giving their worship, which belongs to God alone, to other “gods”].
Ecclesiastes 7:29
Behold, I have found only this [as a reason]: God made man upright and uncorrupted, but they [both men and women] have sought out many devices [for evil].”

General references

Proverbs 24:8

He who plans to do evil
Will be called a schemer or deviser of evil.