18 Bible Verses about Evil Devices
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For they intended evil against thee; they imagined a wicked device, but they did not prevail.
Daleth Be silent before the LORD and wait patiently for him; do not be angry with him who prospers in his way, with the man who brings wicked devices to pass.
Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked; do not further his wicked thought lest they exalt themselves. Selah.
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.
He devises iniquity upon his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he does not abhor evil.
there is perversion in his heart; he devises evil continually; he sows discord.
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:
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.
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.
The wicked in his pride persecutes the poor; let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
The LORD brings the counsel of the Gentiles to nought; he makes the devices of the peoples of no effect.
a heart that devises wicked imaginations, feet that are swift in running to evil,
The good man shall attain the favour of the LORD, but the man of wicked thoughts he will condemn.