Zechariah 7:10

Disobedience And Fasting

⁹ So speaks Jehovah of Hosts, saying, Judge true judgment, and practice kindness and pity, each man to his brother. ¹⁰ And do not crush the widow or the orphan, the alien or the poor. And do not devise evil in your heart, of a man against his brother. ¹¹ But they refused to listen, and gave a stubborn shoulder, and made heavy their ears from hearing.

Devise Evil

Let There Be

Oppress the Poor

Oppress the Stranger

Plan Evil

No

Psalm 21:11

For they intended evil against You; they imagined a wicked thing; they are not able to prevail.

Psalm 72:4

He shall judge the poor of the people; He shall save the children of the needy, and shall crush in pieces the cruel one.

Isaiah 1:23

your rulers are rebellious, and companions of thieves; everyone loves a bribe, and is pursuing rewards; they do not judge the orphan, nor does the cause of the widow come to them.

Jeremiah 5:28

They have become fat, they shine. Yes, they go past the deeds of the wicked; they do not judge the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may get rich; and they do not judge the right of the needy.

Exodus 22:21-24

You shall neither vex a stranger nor oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Exodus 23:9

Also you shall not oppress a stranger. For you know the heart of a stranger, since you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 24:14-18

You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, of your brothers, or of your strangers that are in your land within your gates.

Deuteronomy 27:19

Cursed is he who perverts the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Psalm 36:4

He plots evil on his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he does not hate evil.

Psalm 140:2

who devised evil things in the heart; they are always gathered for war.

Proverbs 3:29

Do not plan evil against your neighbor, since he dwells trustingly by you.

Proverbs 6:18

a heart that plots wicked plans, feet hurrying to run to evil,

Proverbs 22:22-23

Do not rob the poor, because he is poor; nor press down the afflicted in the gate;

Proverbs 23:10-11

Do not remove the old landmarks, and do not enter into the fields of the fatherless;

Isaiah 1:16-17

Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes; cease to do evil;

Jeremiah 11:19-20

But I was like a docile lamb being brought to the slaughter. And I did not know that they had plotted evils against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name may be remembered no more.

Jeremiah 18:18

Then they said, Come and let us plot schemes against Jeremiah. For the Law shall not perish from the priest, nor wisdom from the wise, nor the Word from the prophet. Come and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words.

Jeremiah 22:15-17

Do you reign, because you lust to excel in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.

Ezekiel 22:7

In you they have despised father and mother. In your midst they have dealt with the stranger by oppression. In you they oppressed the orphan and the widow.

Ezekiel 22:12

In you they have taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken usury and increase, and you gained by extortion of your neighbors, and you have forgotten Me, says the Lord Jehovah.

Ezekiel 22:29

The people of the land have used oppression and practiced robbery, and they have troubled the poor and needy. Yea, they have oppressed the stranger without right.

Amos 4:1

Hear this Word, cows of Bashan who are in the mountain of Samaria; who press down the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their masters, Bring in, that we may drink.

Amos 5:11-12

So, because of your trampling on the poor, and you take tribute of grain from him; you have built houses of carved stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted desirable vineyards, but you shall not drink wine from them.

Micah 2:1-3

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

Micah 3:1-4

And I said, Please hear, O heads of Jacob and magistrates of the house of Israel. Is it not for you to know justice?

Zephaniah 3:1-3

Woe to her rebelling and becoming defiled, to the oppressing city!

Zechariah 8:17

And let each devise no evil in your heart against his neighbor; and love no false oath. For all these are things that I hate, says Jehovah.

Malachi 3:5

And I will come near you to judgment. And I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those who extort from the hired laborer's wages, and turning away the widow, and the orphan, the alien, and not fearing Me, says Jehovah of Hosts.

Matthew 23:13

But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of Heaven against men. For you neither go in, nor do you allow those entering to go in.

Mark 7:21-23

For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

1 Corinthians 6:10

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

James 1:14-15

But each one is tempted by his lusts, being drawn away and seduced by them.

James 5:4

Behold, the hire of the laborers reaping your fields cry out, being kept back by you. And the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.

1 John 3:15

Everyone hating his brother is a murderer. And you know that no murderer has everlasting life abiding in him.