Proverbs 24:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 140:2-3
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    2 For their hearts are full of evil designs; and they are ever making ready causes of war.

    3 Their tongues are sharp like the tongue of a snake; the poison of snakes is under their lips. (Selah.)

  • Prov 6:14
    78%

    14 His mind is ever designing evil: he lets loose violent acts.

  • Prov 12:20
    77%

    20 Deceit is in the heart of those whose designs are evil, but for those purposing peace there is joy.

  • Prov 24:8
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    8 He whose purposes are bad will be named a man of evil designs.

  • Prov 6:18
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    18 A heart full of evil designs, feet which are quick in running after sin;

  • Rom 3:13-16
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    13 Their throat is like an open place of death; with their tongues they have said what is not true: the poison of snakes is under their lips:

    14 Whose mouth is full of curses and bitter words:

    15 Their feet are quick in running after blood;

    16 Destruction and trouble are in their ways;

  • Job 15:35
    76%

    35 Evil has made them with child, and they give birth to trouble; and the fruit of their body is shame for themselves.

  • Ps 10:7
    76%

    7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and false words: under his tongue are evil purposes and dark thoughts.

  • Prov 24:1
    76%

    1 Have no envy for evil men, or any desire to be with them:

  • Prov 16:30
    76%

    30 He whose eyes are shut is a man of twisted purposes, and he who keeps his lips shut tight makes evil come about.

  • Isa 59:7
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    7 Their feet go quickly to evil, and they take delight in the death of the upright; their thoughts are thoughts of sin; wasting and destruction are in their ways.

  • Prov 1:16
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    16 For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life.

  • Ps 12:2
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    2 Everyone says false words to his neighbour: their tongues are smooth in their talk, and their hearts are full of deceit.

  • Ps 21:11
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    11 For their thoughts were bitter against you: they had an evil design in their minds, which they were not able to put into effect.

  • Ps 35:20
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    20 For they do not say words of peace; in their deceit they are designing evil things against the quiet ones in the land.

  • Ps 64:5-6
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    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.

  • Prov 26:23-24
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    23 Smooth lips and an evil heart are like a vessel of earth plated with silver waste.

    24 With his lips the hater makes things seem what they are not, but deceit is stored up inside him;

  • Jer 9:8
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    8 His tongue is an arrow causing death; the words of his mouth are deceit: he says words of peace to his neighbour, but in his heart he is waiting secretly for him.

  • Prov 4:16
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    16 For they take no rest till they have done evil; their sleep is taken away if they have not been the cause of someone's fall.

  • Ps 5:9
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    9 For no faith may be put in their words; their inner part is nothing but evil; their throat is like an open place for the dead; smooth are the words of their tongues.

  • Ps 36:3-4
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    75%

    3 In the words of his mouth are evil and deceit; he has given up being wise and doing good.

    4 He gives thought to evil on his bed; he takes a way which is not good; he is not a hater of evil.

  • Mic 2:1
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    1 A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power.

  • Ps 52:2
    75%

    2 Purposing destruction, using deceit; your tongue is like a sharp blade.

  • Prov 17:4
    74%

    4 A wrongdoer gives attention to evil lips, and a man of deceit gives ear to a damaging tongue.

  • Ps 140:9
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    9 As for those who come round me, let their heads be covered by the evil of their lips.

  • Prov 2:14
    74%

    14 Who take pleasure in wrongdoing, and have joy in the evil designs of the sinner;

  • Ps 59:12
    74%

    12 Because of the sin of their mouths and the word of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride; and for their curses and their deceit,

  • Mic 7:3
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    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.

  • Prov 16:27
    74%

    27 A good-for-nothing man is a designer of evil, and in his lips there is a burning fire.

  • Prov 17:20
    74%

    20 Nothing good comes to him whose heart is fixed on evil purposes: and he who has an evil tongue will come to trouble.

  • Ps 50:19
    74%

    19 You have given your mouth to evil, your tongue to words of deceit.

  • Ps 73:8-9
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    74%

    8 Their thoughts are deep with evil designs; their talk from their seats of power is of cruel acts.

    9 Their mouth goes up to heaven; their tongues go walking through the earth.

  • Prov 15:28
    74%

    28 The heart of the upright gives thought to his answer; but from the mouth of the evil-doer comes a stream of evil things.

  • Ps 62:4
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    4 Their only thought is to put him down from his place of honour; their delight is in deceit: blessing is in their mouths but cursing in their hearts. (Selah.)

  • Ps 55:10
    73%

    10 By day and night they go round the town, on the walls; trouble and sorrow are in the heart of it.

  • Prov 1:18
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    18 And they are secretly waiting for their blood and making ready destruction for themselves.

  • Ps 28:3
    73%

    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.

  • Mic 6:12
    73%

    12 For its men of wealth are cruel, and its people have said what is not true, and their tongue is false in their mouth.

  • Hos 7:3
    73%

    3 In their sin they make a king for themselves, and rulers in their deceit.

  • Jer 9:5
    73%

    5 Everyone will make sport of his neighbour with deceit, not saying what is true: their tongues have been trained to say false words; they are twisted, hating to come back.

  • Prov 24:22
    73%

    22 For their downfall will come suddenly; and who has knowledge of the destruction of those in high positions?

  • Ps 11:2
    72%

    2 See, the bows of the evil-doers are bent, they make ready their arrows on the cord, so that they may send them secretly against the upright in heart.