15 Bible Verses about Imagination, Evil Scheming

Inasmuch as, having come to know God, not, as God, did they glorify him, or give him thanks, but were made fruitless in their reasonings, and darkened was their undiscerning heart,

In the pride of the lawless one, he hotly pursueth the poor, let them be caught in the plots which they have devised! For the lawless one hath boasted over the longing of his soul, and, the robber, hath blasphemed Yahweh. The lawless one, in the loftiness of his countenance, will not enquire, God is not in any of his plots:

But their thoughts were turned into stone: for, until this very day, the same veil, upon the reading of the old covenant, abideth, not to be removed, because, in Christ, it is to be done away;

This, therefore, am I saying and protesting in the Lord: - that, no longer, ye walk even as, the nations, walk - in the vanity of their minds, Being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God - by reason of the ignorance that existeth within them, by reason of their hearts being turned into stone,

All things, are pure, unto the pure, but, unto the polluted and faithless, nothing, is pure, but polluted are both their mind and conscience;

Thine eyes, will see strange women, and, thy heart, will speak perverse things:

In whom, the god of this age, hath blinded the minds of the unbelieving, to the end they may not discern the radiance e of the glad-message of the glory of the Christ - who is the image of God.

Unto you also - being dead by your offences and sins, In which at one time ye walked, according to the age of the world, according to the prince of the authority of the air, of the spirit that now energiseth in the sons of disobedience, Among whom also, we all, had our behaviour, at one time, in the covetings of our flesh, doing the things desired by the flesh and the mind, and were children, by nature, of anger - even as the rest, -

These six things, doth Yahweh hate, yea, seven, are the abomination of his soul: - Eyes that are lofty, a tongue that is false, and hands shedding innocent blood; A heart contriving iniquitous devices, feet hasting to run into mischief;

Then said Yahweh: Lo! one people and one manner of speech, have they all, this, then is what they have begun to do, - now, therefore, nothing will be withholden from them which they may plan to do.

Iniquity, deviseth he upon his bed, - he taketh his stand in a way, not good, Wrong, doth he not abhor!

They strengthen for them a wicked word, They talk of hiding snares, They have said, Who can see them? They devise perverse things, They have completed the device well devised, Both the intent of each one, and the mind, are unsearchable.

Hath perverse things in his heart, deviseth mischief on every occasion, strifes, he sendeth forth.

Deceit, is in the heart of contrivers of mischief, but, to the counsellors of peace, shall be joy.

Shall they not, become vagrants, who devise evil? but, lovingkindness and faithfulness, be to them who devise good.