26 occurrences

'Devices' in the Bible

to devise devices to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,

Verse Conceptsresilienceartistswoodworkingcraftsmanship

even to devise devices to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,

Verse Conceptsartistscraftsmanship

for we do surely die, and are as water which is running down to the earth, which is not gathered, and God doth not accept a person, and hath devised devices in that the outcast is not outcast by Him.

Verse ConceptsImperfection, Influence OfLast ThingsUniversality Of DeathMediatorMortalityHow Death Is InevitableReinstating Peopleextraterrestrials

Thy devices make men keep silent, Thou scornest, and none is causing blushing!

Verse ConceptsCruelty, examples of

Lo, I have known your thoughts, And the devices against me ye do wrongfully.

Verse ConceptsPeople With General KnowledgeWronging Other PeopleThoughtsimagination

I, wisdom, have dwelt with prudence, And a knowledge of devices I find out.

Verse ConceptsPrudenceValuing KnowledgeWisdom

The good bringeth forth favour from Jehovah, And the man of wicked devices He condemneth.

Verse ConceptsBehaviourShrewdnessDivine FavourEvil DevicesCondemnation Of The WickedA Good Man

See, this alone I have found, that God made man upright, and they -- they have sought out many devices.

Verse ConceptsFall Of ManInventionsMan, Creation OfPerfection Of CreationMorality

We have heard of the pride of Moab -- very proud, His pride, and his arrogance, and his wrath, Not right are his devices.

Verse ConceptsFutilityComplacencyemptinessPride, Examples OfPride, Results OfSelf ConfidenceSuperiorityHaughtinessProud Peoplearrogance

And the miser -- his instruments are evil, He hath counselled wicked devices, To corrupt the poor with lying sayings, Even when the needy speaketh justly.

Verse ConceptsDishonesty, Kinds OfEvil PlansTrapEvil DevicesPlottinginstruments

Hear, O earth, lo, I am bringing evil on this people, The fruit of their devices, For to My words they gave no attention, And My law -- they kick against it.

Verse ConceptsRejecting ThingsRejection Of GodRejection Of God, Results OfRejection Of God's CallRefusing To HearGod Will Bring Harm

And I am as a trained lamb brought to slaughter, And I have not known That against me they have devised devices: We destroy the tree with its food, and cut him off From the land of the living, And his name is not remembered again.

Verse ConceptsLambsBeing Killed Like An AnimalForgetting PeopleNames Blotted OutAttempting To Kill Specific PeopleKilled Like An Animal

And they say, Come, And we devise against Jeremiah devices, For law doth not perish from the priest, Nor counsel from the wise, Nor the word from the prophet, Come, and we smite him with the tongue, And we do not attend to any of his words.

Verse ConceptsAdvice, Rejecting Good AdviceadvisersPlansStudying The LawThe Work Of The WiseMan's CounselThe TongueWisdom And GuidanceBeing LostGod's Plan For Usrumors

The fierceness of the anger of Jehovah Doth not turn back till His doing, Yea, till His establishing the devices of His heart, In the latter end of the days we consider it!

Verse ConceptsHeart, DivineUnderstandingAnger Of God, Nature OfRevelation Of The FutureProper UnderstandingGod Has Anger

I -- I have known, an affirmation of Jehovah, His wrath, and it is not right, His devices -- not right they have done.

Therefore, hear ye the counsel of Jehovah, That He hath counselled concerning Edom, And His devices that He hath devised Concerning the inhabitants of Teman: Drag them out do not little ones of the flock, Make desolate over them doth he not their habitation?

Verse ConceptsPlansGod's Plans

Therefore, hear ye the counsel of Jehovah, That He counselled concerning Babylon, And His devices that He hath devised Concerning the land of the Chaldeans; Drag them out do not little ones of the flock, Doth He not make desolate over them the habitation?

Verse ConceptsPlansGod's Plans

Thy devices and thine abominations, Thou hast borne them, an affirmation of Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsSin BearerThey Committed Immoralityconsequences

Peaceably even into the fertile places of the province He cometh, and he hath done that which his fathers did not, nor his fathers' fathers; prey, and spoil, and substance, to them he scattereth, and against fenced places he deviseth his devices, even for a time.

Verse ConceptsEvil PlansShort Time For ActionDividing The Spoil

'And he stirreth up his power and his heart against the king of the south with a great force, and the king of the south stirreth himself up to battle with a very great and mighty force, and standeth not, for they devise devices against him,

Verse ConceptsMany CombatantsEvil PlansBravery

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