11 Bible Verses about Deviousness
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Whose ways are not straight, and whose footsteps are turned to evil:
Twisted is the way of him who is full of crime; but as for him whose heart is clean, his work is upright.
For the wrong-hearted man is hated by the Lord, but he is a friend to the upright.
Giving you salvation from the evil man, from those whose words are false;
He who goes on his way in righteousness has before him the fear of the Lord; but he whose ways are twisted gives him no honour.
Who makes the designs of the wise go wrong, so that they are unable to give effect to their purposes.
Is it possible for me to let wrong scales and the bag of false weights go without punishment?
But of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, If you take of it or put your hands on it, death will come to you.
Take up God's instruments of war, so that you may be able to keep your position against all the deceits of the Evil One.
And he came to his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I: who are you, my son? And Jacob said, I am Esau, your oldest son; I have done as you said: come now, be seated and take of my meat, so that you may give me a blessing. And Isaac said, How is it that you have got it so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the Lord your God made it come my way.read more.
And Isaac said, Come near so that I may put my hand on you, my son, and see if you are truly my son Esau or not. And Jacob went near his father Isaac: and he put his hands on him; and he said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau. And he did not make out who he was, because his hands were covered with hair like his brother Esau's hands: so he gave him a blessing. And he said, Are you truly my son Esau? And he said, I am. And he said, Put it before me and I will take of my son's meat, so that I may give you a blessing. And he put it before him and he took it; and he gave him wine, and he had a drink. And his father Isaac said to him, Come near now, my son, and give me a kiss. And he came near and gave him a kiss; and smelling the smell of his clothing, he gave him a blessing, and said, See, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field on which the blessing of the Lord has come:
