Proverbs 24:2

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For their hearts plot violence, and their lips talk of trouble.

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  • Ps 10:7 : 7 His mouth is full of curses and deceit and oppression; under his tongue are trouble and iniquity.
  • Ps 28:3 : 3 Do not drag me away with the wicked, with those who do evil, who speak peace to their neighbors but harbor evil in their hearts.
  • Ps 7:14 : 14 He has prepared His deadly weapons; He makes His arrows fiery shafts.
  • Job 15:35 : 35 They conceive trouble and give birth to wickedness; their womb prepares deceit.
  • 1 Sam 23:9 : 9 When David learned that Saul was plotting harm against him, he said to Abiathar the priest, "Bring the ephod here."
  • Isa 59:4 : 4 No one calls for justice, and no one pleads with integrity. They rely on empty words and speak lies; they conceive trouble and give birth to iniquity.
  • Matt 26:3-4 : 3 Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people gathered in the courtyard of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas. 4 And they plotted together to arrest Jesus by deceit and kill Him.
  • Acts 13:10 : 10 And he said, 'You are full of all deceit and all fraud, son of the devil, enemy of all righteousness! Will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord?'
  • Luke 23:20-21 : 20 Wanting to release Jesus, Pilate addressed them again. 21 But they kept shouting, 'Crucify Him! Crucify Him!'
  • Mic 7:3 : 3 Their hands are skilled at doing evil: the ruler demands gifts, the judge accepts bribes, and the powerful speak out their selfish desires. Together they weave a web of corrupt schemes.
  • Esth 3:6-7 : 6 But he considered it beneath him to attack Mordecai alone, for they had told him about Mordecai’s people. So Haman sought to destroy all the Jews throughout the kingdom of Ahasuerus, the people of Mordecai. 7 In the first month, the month of Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, they cast Pur (that is, the lot) before Haman for each day and each month, until the twelfth month, the month of Adar.
  • Ps 36:4 : 4 The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit; he has stopped being wise and doing good.
  • Ps 64:4-6 : 4 They sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their words like bitter arrows. 5 They shoot from hiding places at the innocent; they shoot suddenly, without fear. 6 They encourage each other in evil plans; they talk about hiding snares and say, 'Who will see them?'
  • Ps 140:2 : 2 Rescue me, O LORD, from evil people; protect me from men of violence.
  • Prov 6:14 : 14 He plots evil with deceit in his heart; he constantly stirs up dissension.
  • Prov 24:8 : 8 The one who plots evil will be called a schemer.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 140:2-3
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    2Rescue me, O LORD, from evil people; protect me from men of violence.

    3They devise wicked schemes in their hearts and stir up conflicts all day long.

  • Prov 6:14
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    14He plots evil with deceit in his heart; he constantly stirs up dissension.

  • Prov 12:20
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    20Deceit is in the heart of those who plot evil, but joy is for those who counsel peace.

  • Prov 24:8
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    8The one who plots evil will be called a schemer.

  • Prov 6:18
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    18a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil,

  • Rom 3:13-16
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    13"Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit." "The venom of vipers is under their lips."

    14Their mouths are full of curses and bitterness.

    15Their feet are swift to shed blood.

    16Ruin and misery mark their paths.

  • Job 15:35
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    35They conceive trouble and give birth to wickedness; their womb prepares deceit.

  • Ps 10:7
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    7His mouth is full of curses and deceit and oppression; under his tongue are trouble and iniquity.

  • Prov 24:1
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    1Do not envy wicked people or desire to be with them.

  • Prov 16:30
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    30The one who winks with his eyes is plotting perverse things, and the one who purses his lips is bent on evil.

  • Isa 59:7
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    7Their feet run to do evil, and they are quick to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful; ruin and destruction are in their paths.

  • Prov 1:16
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    16For their feet run to evil; they hasten to shed blood.

  • Ps 12:2
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    2Help, LORD, for the godly have vanished; the faithful have disappeared from among humanity.

  • Ps 21:11
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    11You will destroy their offspring from the earth, and their descendants from among mankind.

  • Ps 35:20
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    20For they do not speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

  • Ps 64:5-6
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    5They shoot from hiding places at the innocent; they shoot suddenly, without fear.

    6They encourage each other in evil plans; they talk about hiding snares and say, 'Who will see them?'

  • Prov 26:23-24
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    23Like silver dross on an earthen vessel are fervent lips with an evil heart.

    24An enemy disguises themselves with their lips, but in their heart, they harbor deceit.

  • Jer 9:8
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    8Should I not punish them for these things? declares the Lord. Should I not avenge myself on such a nation as this?

  • Prov 4:16
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    16For they cannot rest until they do evil; they are robbed of sleep until they make someone stumble.

  • Ps 5:9
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    9LORD, lead me in Your righteousness because of my enemies; make Your way straight before me.

  • Ps 36:3-4
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    3For he flatters himself in his own eyes, thinking his iniquity will not be discovered or hated.

    4The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit; he has stopped being wise and doing good.

  • Mic 2:1
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    1Woe to those who devise wickedness and plan evil on their beds! At dawn, they carry it out because they have the power to do it.

  • Ps 52:2
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    2When Doeg the Edomite came and reported to Saul, saying, 'David has gone to the house of Ahimelech.'

  • Prov 17:4
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    4A wicked person listens to deceitful lips; a liar pays attention to a destructive tongue.

  • Ps 140:9
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    9Do not grant the desires of the wicked, O LORD; do not let their plans succeed, lest they exalt themselves. Selah.

  • Prov 2:14
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    14from those who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perversity of wickedness.

  • Ps 59:12
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    12Do not kill them, Lord, or my people will forget. Scatter them by your power and bring them down, O Lord, our shield.

  • Mic 7:3
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    3Their hands are skilled at doing evil: the ruler demands gifts, the judge accepts bribes, and the powerful speak out their selfish desires. Together they weave a web of corrupt schemes.

  • Prov 16:27
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    27A worthless man plots evil, and his words are like a scorching fire.

  • Prov 17:20
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    20A crooked heart will not find good, and the one with a deceitful tongue will fall into trouble.

  • Ps 50:19
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    19You let your mouth speak evil, and your tongue devises deceit.

  • Ps 73:8-9
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    8They scoff and speak with malice; with arrogance, they threaten oppression.

    9They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongues strut through the earth.

  • Prov 15:28
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    28The heart of the righteous weighs its answers, but the mouth of the wicked gushes evil.

  • Ps 62:4
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    4How long will you assault a man? Would you all throw him down—like a leaning wall, a tottering fence?

  • Ps 55:10
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    10Confuse, O Lord, and divide their speech, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

  • Prov 1:18
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    18But these men lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives.

  • Ps 28:3
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    3Do not drag me away with the wicked, with those who do evil, who speak peace to their neighbors but harbor evil in their hearts.

  • Mic 6:12
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    12Her rich men are full of violence; her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongues are deceitful in their mouths.

  • Hos 7:3
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    3They please the king with their evil and the princes with their lies.

  • Jer 9:5
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    5You live in the midst of deceit, and because of deceit, they refuse to know me, declares the Lord.

  • Prov 24:22
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    22For suddenly their calamity will rise, and who knows the ruin of both of them?

  • Ps 11:2
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    2See how the wicked bend their bows; they set their arrows on the string to shoot from the shadows at the upright in heart.