18 Bible Verses about Evil Devices
Most Relevant Verses
Though they have {plotted} evil against you, [though] they have planned a scheme, they will not prevail.
Be quiet before Yahweh and wait for him. Do not fret about one who succeeds [in] his way, about a man making plots.
Do not grant, O Yahweh, [the] desires of [the] wicked. Do not allow [them] to attain their plan, lest they be exalted. Selah
But they will say, '[It is] hopeless, for we will go after our [own] plans, and each one of us will act [according to] the stubbornness of his evil heart.'
He plans sin on his bed. He puts himself on a way [that is] not good. He does not reject evil.
perversion in his heart, he devises evil; at all times he will send out discord.
Have they not erred, those who plan evil? But loyalty and faithfulness [belong to] those who plan good.
He who winks his eyes [does so in order] to plan perverse things; he who purses his lips will bring evil to pass.
He who plans to do evil for himself, they will call [him] "master of mischief."
And a scoundrel, his weapons [are] evil; he plans evil devices to ruin [the] poor with words of deception even when the speech of [the] needy [is] right.
And he said to me, "Son of man, these [are] the men {who devise mischief}, and [who are] offering bad counsel in this city,
Woe [to] those who plan wickedness and evil deeds upon their beds! In the light of the morning they did it, because they have power in their hands.
But when it came {to the attention of} the king, he {gave orders in writing} [that] his evil plot that he had devised against the Jews should return on his head, and they hung him and his sons on the gallows.
[He] is frustrating [the] devices of [the] crafty, and their hands do not achieve success.
In arrogance [the] wicked persecutes [the] poor. Let them be caught in [the] schemes that they devised,
Yahweh brings to nothing [the] plan of nations; he frustrates [the] intents of peoples.
The good obtains favor from Yahweh, but anyone who schemes, he condemns.
