Verse 2

For the purposes of their hearts are destruction, and their lips are talking of trouble.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 10:7 : 7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and false words: under his tongue are evil purposes and dark thoughts.
  • Ps 28:3 : 3 Do not take me away with the sinners and the workers of evil, who say words of peace to their neighbours, but evil is in their hearts.
  • Ps 7:14 : 14 That man is a worker of evil; the seed of wrongdoing has given birth to deceit.
  • Job 15:35 : 35 Evil has made them with child, and they give birth to trouble; and the fruit of their body is shame for themselves.
  • 1 Sam 23:9 : 9 And it was clear to David that Saul had evil designs against him, and he said to Abiathar the priest, Come here with the ephod.
  • Isa 59:4 : 4 No one puts forward an upright cause, or gives a true decision: their hope is in deceit, and their words are false; they are with child with sin, and give birth to evil.
  • Matt 26:3-4 : 3 Then the chief priests and the rulers of the people came together in the house of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas. 4 And they made designs together to take Jesus by some trick, and put him to death.
  • Acts 13:10 : 10 O you, who are full of false tricks and evil ways, a son of the Evil One, hating all righteousness, will you for ever be turning people from the right ways of the Lord?
  • Luke 23:20-21 : 20 And Pilate again said to them that it was his desire to let Jesus go free. 21 But crying out they said, To the cross with him!
  • Mic 7:3 : 3 Their hands are made ready to do evil; the ruler makes requests for money, and the judge is looking for a reward; and the great man gives decisions at his pleasure, and the right is twisted.
  • Esth 3:6-7 : 6 But it was not enough for him to make an attack on Mordecai only; for they had made clear to him who Mordecai's people were; so Haman made it his purpose to put an end to all the Jews, even Mordecai's people, through all the kingdom of Ahasuerus. 7 In the first month, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, from day to day and from month to month they went on looking for a sign given by Pur (that is chance) before Haman, till the sign came out for the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month Adar.
  • Ps 36:4 : 4 He gives thought to evil on his bed; he takes a way which is not good; he is not a hater of evil.
  • Ps 64:4-6 : 4 So that in secret they may let loose their arrows at the upright, suddenly and unseen. 5 They make themselves strong in an evil purpose; they make holes for secret nets; they say, Who will see it, 6 Or make discovery of our secret purpose? The design is framed with care; and the inner thought of a man, and his heart, is deep.
  • Ps 140:2 : 2 For their hearts are full of evil designs; and they are ever making ready causes of war.
  • Prov 6:14 : 14 His mind is ever designing evil: he lets loose violent acts.
  • Prov 24:8 : 8 He whose purposes are bad will be named a man of evil designs.