Thematic Bible: Devices of


Thematic Bible



Woe unto those that devise iniquity and fabricate evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they put it into effect because they have power in their hands.

He devises iniquity upon his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he does not abhor evil.

He that devises to do evil shall be called a man of evil designs.

And they said, This is useless, for we must walk after our own devices, and we must each one do the imagination of his evil heart.



Do they not err that meditate upon evil? but those that meditate upon good shall attain mercy and truth.

He shuts his eyes to devise perverse things; moving his lips he brings evil to pass.

Certainly the greedy use evil measures: he devises wicked devices to ensnare the simple with lying words and to speak in judgment against the poor.

Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise mischief and give wicked counsel in this city:




Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers transform themselves as ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works.


For it is time that the judgment begins from the house of God; and if it first begins with us, what shall the end be of those that do not obey the gospel of God?


What fruit had ye then in those things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

but that which bears thorns and briers is rejected and is near unto cursing, whose end shall be by fire.

When I come into the sanctuary of God, then I shall understand their end.


Therefore God also gave them over to the lusts of their own hearts for uncleanness, to contaminate their own bodies between themselves,

Do not be like your fathers, and like your brethren, who rebelled against the LORD God of their fathers and he gave them over to desolation, as ye see.

Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.


And she said, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep and said, This time I will go out like before and escape; not knowing that the LORD had departed from him.

And Saul enquired of the LORD, but the LORD did not answer him by dreams nor by Urim nor by prophets.

So I gave them up unto the hardness of their heart, and they walked in their own counsels.


Then God withdrew and gave them up to worship the host of the heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?


Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God; depart from me therefore, ye bloodthirsty men.


raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own abominations; erratic stars, to whom is reserved gross darkness eternally.

His own iniquities shall take hold of the wicked, and he shall be imprisoned with the cords of his sins.

For the cup is in the hand of the LORD, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he pours out of the same; yea, the dregs thereof, shall wring out and swallow up all the wicked of the earth.

But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of the grave; bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in thee.

Resh The wicked shall see it and be furious; Schin he shall gnash with his teeth and waste away: Tau The desire of the wicked shall perish.

The wicked spring forth as the grass, and all the workers of iniquity blossom, so that they shall be destroyed for ever:


Vau For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be; thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.



Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? no, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush; therefore, they shall fall among those that shall fall: at the time that I visit them they shall fall, saith the LORD.

Those that swear by the guiltiness of Samaria and say, As thy God of Dan lives; and, As the way of Beersheba lives, even they shall fall, and never rise up again.

The righteousness of the perfect shall straighten his way, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

He that digs a pit shall fall into it, and whosoever breaks a hedge, a serpent shall bite him.

I will not visit upon your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor upon your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery: for they offer with whores, and they sacrifice with cult prostitutes; therefore the people without understanding shall fall.

Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus hath the LORD said: The one who falls, does he never arise? he who turns away, does he never return?


Then I also saw that the wicked who were buried came into remembrance more than those who had frequented the holy place, and these were forgotten in the city where they had worked uprightly. This also is vanity.

His memory shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the streets.


I said I would shatter them in pieces: I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men,

Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

For he came in vain and departs unto darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.



The good man shall attain the favour of the LORD, but the man of wicked thoughts he will condemn.

The LORD brings the counsel of the Gentiles to nought; he makes the devices of the peoples of no effect.

but when she came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.



For their feet shall run to evil and make haste to shed blood.


Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are their paths.