Zechariah 7:10

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Summary

And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.

Imagine

General references

Exodus 22:22

Bible References

Imagine

For their thoughts were bitter against you: they had an evil design in their minds, which they were not able to put into effect.

He gives thought to evil on his bed; he takes a way which is not good; he is not a hater of evil.

For their hearts are full of evil designs; and they are ever making ready causes of war.

Do not make evil designs against your neighbour, when he is living with you without fear.

A heart full of evil designs, feet which are quick in running after sin;

But I was like a gentle lamb taken to be put to death; I had no thought that they were designing evil against me, saying, Come and let us make trouble his food, cutting him off from the land of the living, so that there may be no more memory of his name.

Then they said, Come, let us make a design against Jeremiah; for teaching will never be cut off from the priest, or wisdom from the wise, or the word from the prophet. Come, let us make use of his words for an attack on him, and let us give attention with care to what he says.

A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power.

Because from inside, from the heart of men, come evil thoughts and unclean pleasures,

But every man is tested when he is turned out of the right way by the attraction of his desire.

Anyone who has hate for his brother is a taker of life, and you may be certain that no taker of life has eternal life in him.

General references

Do no wrong to a widow, or to a child whose father is dead.