Verse 10

The soul of the wicked desires evil; his neighbor finds no favor in his eyes.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 3:29 : 29 Do not plot harm against your neighbor who lives trustingly beside you.
  • Mic 3:2-3 : 2 You who hate good and love evil; you tear the skin from my people and the flesh from their bones. 3 You eat the flesh of my people, strip off their skin, break their bones, and chop them up like meat for the pot, like flesh in a cauldron.
  • Mark 7:21-22 : 21 For from within, out of the human heart, come evil thoughts, sexual immoralities, thefts, murders, 22 adulteries, greed, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness.
  • 1 Cor 10:6 : 6 Now these things happened as examples for us, so that we would not desire evil things as they did.
  • Jas 2:13 : 13 For judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
  • Jas 4:1-5 : 1 What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within your body parts? 2 You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. 3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. 4 You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. 5 Or do you think Scripture says without reason that the spirit God caused to dwell in us longs jealously for us?
  • Jas 5:4-6 : 4 Look, the wages that you withheld from the workers who harvested your fields are crying out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts. 5 You have lived luxuriously on the earth and indulged yourselves. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter. 6 You have condemned and murdered the righteous person, who does not resist you.
  • 1 John 2:16 : 16 For all that is in the world—the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father, but is from the world.
  • Prov 12:12 : 12 The wicked desire the plunder of evildoers, but the root of the righteous flourishes.
  • Prov 21:13 : 13 Whoever shuts their ears to the cry of the poor will also cry out and not be answered.
  • Isa 32:6-8 : 6 For the fool speaks folly, and his heart inclines toward wickedness: to practice ungodliness and to speak error about the Lord, leaving the hungry unsatisfied and depriving the thirsty of drink. 7 The schemes of the wicked are evil; he devises wicked plans to destroy the poor with lies, even when the plea of the needy is just. 8 But a noble person makes honorable plans, and by honorable deeds he stands.
  • 1 Sam 25:8-9 : 8 Ask your servants, and they will confirm this. Therefore, may my men find favor in your eyes, because we have come on a festive day. Please give whatever you can spare to your servants and to your son, David.’" 9 When David’s young men arrived, they delivered this message to Nabal in David’s name and waited. 10 But Nabal answered David’s servants, "Who is David? Who is this son of Jesse? Nowadays many servants are breaking away from their masters. 11 Should I take my bread, my water, and the meat I’ve slaughtered for my shearers and give it to men from who knows where?"
  • Ps 36:4 : 4 The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit; he has stopped being wise and doing good.
  • Ps 52:2-3 : 2 When Doeg the Edomite came and reported to Saul, saying, 'David has gone to the house of Ahimelech.' 3 Why do you boast about evil, O mighty man? The steadfast love of God endures all day long.
  • Ps 112:5 : 5 Good comes to the man who is gracious and lends freely; he conducts his affairs with justice.
  • Ps 112:9 : 9 He has freely given to the poor; his righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.