17 occurrences

'Devices' in the Bible

He frustrateth the devices of the crafty, So that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

Verse ConceptsGuidance, Need For God'sEvil DevicesDeviousnessFrustrationDisappointmentSuccess And Hard Work

Behold, I know your thoughts, And the devices wherewith ye would wrong me.

Verse ConceptsPeople With General KnowledgeWronging Other PeopleThoughtsimagination

Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, And be filled with their own devices.

Verse ConceptsFruits Of SinMore Than EnoughMaking DecisionsSin Producing Afflictionsconsequences

A good man shall obtain favor of Jehovah; But a man of wicked devices will he condemn.

Verse ConceptsBehaviourShrewdnessDivine FavourEvil DevicesCondemnation Of The WickedA Good Man

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.

Verse ConceptsDishonesty, Kinds OfEvil PlansTrapEvil DevicesPlottinginstruments

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me,'saying , Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

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

Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed 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

Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me.

Verse ConceptsdepthEvil PlansMan AvengingRevengeimagination

Thou hast heard their reproach, O Jehovah, and all their devices against me,

Verse ConceptsEvil Plans

In time of security shall he come even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers fathers; he shall scatter among them prey, and spoil, and substance: yea, he shall devise his devices against the strongholds, even for a time.

Verse ConceptsEvil PlansShort Time For ActionDividing The Spoil

And he shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south shall war in battle with an exceeding great and mighty army; but he shall not stand; for they shall devise devices against him.

Verse ConceptsMany CombatantsEvil PlansBravery

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