Thematic Bible: Devices of


Thematic Bible




He plans wickedness upon his bed;
He sets himself on a path that is not good;
He does not despise evil.
Verse ConceptsEvil WaysImagination, Evil SchemingEvil PlansBedsEvil DevicesMischiefPlottingContinuing In SinStaying Positive

One who plans to do evil,
Men will call a schemer.
Verse ConceptsIntentionsEvil PlansCharacter Of WickedEvil Devices

But they will say, ‘It’s hopeless! For we are going to follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’ Verse ConceptsFools, Characteristics OfHardened Heartsevil, origins ofHardness Of HeartHeart, Fallen And RedeemedPlansEvil DevicesGod's PlanGods PlanGod's Plan For Usimagination



Will they not go astray who devise evil?
But kindness and truth will be to those who devise good.
Verse Conceptsevil, warnings againstImagination, Evil SchemingPlansEvil PlansEvil DevicesFinding LoveMaking Mistakes

He who winks his eyes does so to devise perverse things;
He who compresses his lips brings evil to pass.
Verse ConceptsLipsEvil DevicesPlottingWinkingMoving Onmovement

As for a rogue, his weapons are evil;
He devises wicked schemes
To destroy the afflicted with slander,
Even though the needy one speaks what is right.
Verse ConceptsDishonesty, Kinds OfEvil PlansTrapEvil DevicesPlottinginstruments

He said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity and give evil advice in this city, Verse ConceptsEvil PlansEvil DevicesThe Entrance Of Sin



Therefore it is not surprising if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their deeds. Verse ConceptsServants Of The LorddisguisesServants Of PeoplePeople EndedRepaid For DeedsMinisterssurprises


For it is time for judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God? Verse ConceptsGod, As JudgeFamily, Showing God's RelationshipFaith, Testing OfPeople EndedJudgmentsFamiliesChurch Of Goda new beginningFamily FirstGoing To ChurchJudgement DayJudgementServing The Churchrevivalfateprocesspeter

But transgressors will be altogether destroyed;
The posterity of the wicked will be cut off.
Verse ConceptsEternal DeathSin, God's Judgment OnSinnersDestruction Of The WickedChildren SufferingGod Judges The WickedThe Future

Therefore what benefit were you then deriving from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is death. Verse ConceptsLifestylesPunishment, Nature OfFruitful LabourSin Producing DeathShame Of Bad ConductSin Produces Death

but if it yields thorns and thistles, it is worthless and close to being cursed, and it ends up being burned. Verse ConceptsCreation Spoilt By SinBarren, LandThornsBurning PlantsPeople EndedGod CursingRejectionFarmingcultureapostasy

Until I came into the sanctuary of God;
Then I perceived their end.
Verse ConceptsFate Of The UngodlyPeople Endedfateprospering


Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were unfaithful to the Lord God of their fathers, so that He made them a horror, as you see. Verse ConceptsGod Of The FathersBeing A Good FatherParents Being Wrong

Behold, your house is being left to you desolate! Verse ConceptsEmpty Places


She said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” And he awoke from his sleep and said, “I will go out as at other times and shake myself free.” But he did not know that the Lord had departed from him. Verse ConceptsSelf ConfidenceWeakness, PhysicalGod Abandoning Individualsresilienceflexibilitypremonitions

When Saul inquired of the Lord, the Lord did not answer him, either by dreams or by Urim or by prophets. Verse Conceptsenquiring of GodThe Urim And ThummimGod Not AnsweringProphecy AbolishedUrim And ThummimRevelation Through Prophetssaul

“So I gave them over to the stubbornness of their heart,
To walk in their own devices.
Verse ConceptsGod Hardening PeoplePassionimaginationfollowing


But God turned away and delivered them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, ‘It was not to Me that you offered victims and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, was it, O house of Israel? Verse ConceptsBody40 To 50 YearsIsrael In The WildernessBooks Of ProphecyWorshiping Together

O that You would slay the wicked, O God;
Depart from me, therefore, men of bloodshed.
Verse ConceptsSinnersViolenceThe Fate Of The WickedEvil AssociationsChrist Driving Out PeopleGod KillingGod KillsReady To Kill


wild waves of the sea, casting up their own shame like foam; wandering stars, for whom the black darkness has been reserved forever. Verse ConceptsBlackAstronomyRageColors, BlackHopelessnessThe Fate Of The WickedWanderersWavesEternal JudgementFoamsGod KeepsOuter DarknessShame Has Comewandering

His own iniquities will capture the wicked,
And he will be held with the cords of his sin.
Verse ConceptsSin, Effects OfSin, Consequences OfThe Fate Of The WickedContinuing In SinPunishment of the The Wicked

For a cup is in the hand of the Lord, and the wine foams;
It is well mixed, and He pours out of this;
Surely all the wicked of the earth must drain and drink down its dregs.
Verse ConceptsCup, God's WrathAlcoholdrinkingHand Of GodHerbs And SpicesWineThe Fate Of The WickedMetaphorical WineMixed WineGod Making DrunkMark Of The Beast On Forehead

But You, O God, will bring them down to the pit of destruction;
Men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days.
But I will trust in You.
Verse ConceptsDeceit, Practice OfDeceit Leading to JudgmentHell, As An ExperienceLiesPitsLiarsThe Fate Of The WickedAbasing PeopleHalf Of ThingsPits As A Term For Graves

The wicked will see it and be vexed,
He will gnash his teeth and melt away;
The desire of the wicked will perish.
Verse ConceptsFutilityBitingDecayRest, SpiritualTeethGnashing Of TeethThe Fate Of The WickedFrustration

That when the wicked sprouted up like grass
And all who did iniquity flourished,
It was only that they might be destroyed forevermore.
Verse ConceptsGrassWicked Described AsThe Fate Of The WickedEvildoersEternal JudgementDestruction Of The WickedGod Judges The WickedLike GrassProsperity Of The Wicked


Yet a little while and the wicked man will be no more;
And you will look carefully for his place and he will not be there.
Verse ConceptsThe Fate Of The WickedPeople Passing Away


“Were they ashamed because of the abomination they have done?
They were not even ashamed at all;
They did not even know how to blush.
Therefore they shall fall among those who fall;
At the time that I punish them,
They shall be cast down,” says the Lord.
Verse ConceptsAbominationsRegretCorrupted ConsciencesThe Insecurity Of The WickedBlushingPeople StumblingRed FacesUnknown ThingsAbsence Of RegretFeeling Lost

“As for those who swear by the guilt of Samaria,
Who say, ‘As your god lives, O Dan,’
And, ‘As the way of Beersheba lives,’
They will fall and not rise again.”
Verse ConceptsThe Insecurity Of The WickedHarlotsLiving ThingsShame Of IdolatrySwearing

The righteousness of the blameless will smooth his way,
But the wicked will fall by his own wickedness.
Verse ConceptsGod's WaysThe Insecurity Of The WickedDistinctives Of Righteousnesswickedness

He who digs a pit may fall into it, and a serpent may bite him who breaks through a wall. Verse ConceptsThe Insecurity Of The WickedDigging Pits

I will not punish your daughters when they play the harlot
Or your brides when they commit adultery,
For the men themselves go apart with harlots
And offer sacrifices with temple prostitutes;
So the people without understanding are ruined.
Verse ConceptsThe Insecurity Of The WickedBeing Without UnderstandingMale Prostitutesadultrywhores

“You shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord,
“Do men fall and not get up again?
Does one turn away and not repent?
Verse ConceptsThe Insecurity Of The Wicked

So then, I have seen the wicked buried, those who used to go in and out from the holy place, and they are soon forgotten in the city where they did thus. This too is futility. Verse ConceptsOblivionVanityUseless EndeavourBurying places

Memory of him perishes from the earth,
And he has no name abroad.
Verse ConceptsOblivionDeath Of The WickedForgetting Peopleremembrance


‘I would have said, “I will cut them to pieces,
I will remove the memory of them from men,”
Verse ConceptsOblivionPeople Cut In PiecesForgetting Peopleremembrance

Let them be before the Lord continually,
That He may cut off their memory from the earth;
Verse ConceptsOblivionBlotted Out

for it comes in futility and goes into obscurity; and its name is covered in obscurity. Verse ConceptsOblivionOvertaken By DarknessUseless PeopleMiscarriages And Stillborn


A good man will obtain favor from the Lord,
But He will condemn a man who devises evil.
Verse ConceptsBehaviourShrewdnessDivine FavourEvil DevicesCondemnation Of The WickedA Good Man

The Lord nullifies the counsel of the nations;
He frustrates the plans of the peoples.
Verse ConceptsAdvice, From GodPlansEvil DevicesPlans Of MenNothingGod Hindering

But when it came to the king’s attention, he commanded by letter that his wicked scheme which he had devised against the Jews, should return on his own head and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows. Verse ConceptsEvil DevicesPeople Hung To Death

“He frustrates the plotting of the shrewd,
So that their hands cannot attain success.
Verse ConceptsGuidance, Need For God'sEvil DevicesDeviousnessFrustrationDisappointmentSuccess And Hard Work


For their feet run to evil
And they hasten to shed blood.
Verse ConceptsSheddingRunning After EvilFeet In ActionReady To Kill


Their feet run to evil,
And they hasten to shed innocent blood;
Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity,
Devastation and destruction are in their highways.
Verse ConceptsFeetevil, origins ofInnocence, Teaching OnCharacter Of WickedInnocent BloodSheddingPaths Of The WickedDestructionThoughts Of The WickedReady To Kill