18 Bible Verses about Evil Devices
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Though they intended evil against You
And devised a plot,
They will not succeed.
Rest in the Lord and wait patiently for Him;
Do not fret because of him who prospers in his way,
Because of the man who carries out wicked schemes.
“Do not grant, O Lord, the desires of the wicked;
Do not promote his evil device, that they not be exalted. Selah.
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.’
He plans wickedness upon his bed;
He sets himself on a path that is not good;
He does not despise evil.
Who with perversity in his heart continually devises evil,
Who spreads strife.
Will they not go astray who devise evil?
But kindness and truth will be to those who devise good.
He who winks his eyes does so to devise perverse things;
He who compresses his lips brings evil to pass.
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.
He said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity and give evil advice in this city,
Woe to those who scheme iniquity,
Who work out evil on their beds!
When morning comes, they do it,
For it is in the power of their hands.
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.
“He frustrates the plotting of the shrewd,
So that their hands cannot attain success.
In pride the wicked hotly pursue the afflicted;
Let them be caught in the plots which they have devised.
The Lord nullifies the counsel of the nations;
He frustrates the plans of the peoples.
A good man will obtain favor from the Lord,
But He will condemn a man who devises evil.
