18 Bible Verses about Evil Devices
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For they intended evil against thee; They conceived a device which they are not able to perform.
Rest in Jehovah, and wait patiently for him: Fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, Because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.
Grant not, O Jehovah, the desires of the wicked; Further not his evil device, lest they exalt themselves. Selah
But they say, It is in vain; for we will walk after our own devices, and we will do every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart.
He deviseth iniquity upon his bed; He setteth himself in a way that is not good; He abhorreth not evil.
In whose heart is perverseness, Who deviseth evil continually, Who soweth discord.
Do they not err that devise evil? But mercy and truth'shall be to them that devise good.
He that shutteth his eyes, it is to devise perverse things: He that compresseth his lips bringeth evil to pass.
And the instruments of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the meek with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
And he said unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise iniquity, and that give wicked counsel in this city;
Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
but when the matter came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he had devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
He frustrateth the devices of the crafty, So that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
In the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued; Let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived.
Jehovah bringeth the counsel of the nations to nought; He maketh the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.
A heart that deviseth wicked purposes, Feet that are swift in running to mischief,
A good man shall obtain favor of Jehovah; But a man of wicked devices will he condemn.
