Thematic Bible: Devices, evil


Thematic Bible



"Woe to those who are crafting iniquity, planning evil well into the night! When morning's light comes, they carry out their plans because they have the power to do so.

He devises iniquity on his bed and is determined to follow a path that is not good. He does not resist evil.

The person who plans on doing evil will be called a schemer.




Won't those who plot evil go astray? But gracious love and truth are for those who plan what is good.

Whoever winks knowingly is plotting deceit; anyone who purses his lips is bent towards evil.

Furthermore, the crimes of bad people are evil; and they devise wicked schemes, destroying the poor with lying words, even when needy people plead a just cause.

Then he told me, "Son of Man, these men are plotting evil and are giving wicked advice in this city.



The good person will gain favor from the LORD, but the man who plots evil will be condemned by him.

The LORD makes void the counsel of nations; he frustrates the plans of nations.

But when Esther came before the king, he ordered through a letter that the evil plot that Haman had devised against the Jewish people be rescinded, and that he and his sons be hanged on poles.

He frustrates the plans of the crafty; so that what they work for never succeeds.



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