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.

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General references

Exodus 22:22

Bible References

Imagine

For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn't abhor evil.

those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war.

Don't devise evil against your neighbor, since he dwells securely by you.

a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I didn't know that they had devised devices against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

Then they said, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,

But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.

Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.

General references

"You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.