Zechariah 8:17

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Do not plot evil in your hearts against your neighbor, and do not love false oaths, for I hate all these things, declares the LORD.

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  • Prov 3:29 : 29 Do not plot harm against your neighbor who lives trustingly beside you.
  • Prov 6:16-19 : 16 There are six things the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to Him: 17 haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, 18 a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil, 19 a false witness who pours out lies, and one who stirs up conflict among brothers.
  • Zech 7:10 : 10 Do not oppress the widow or the orphan, the foreigner or the poor. Do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.'
  • Mal 3:5 : 5 I will come near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against sorcerers, adulterers, and those who swear falsely; against those who defraud workers of their wages, oppress widows and orphans, and deprive foreigners of justice. They do not fear me, says the Lord of Hosts.
  • Hab 1:13 : 13 Your eyes are too pure to look on evil, and You cannot tolerate wrongdoing. So why do You tolerate the treacherous? Why are You silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?
  • Matt 15:19 : 19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false testimonies, and slanders.
  • Jer 4:14 : 14 Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will your wicked thoughts lodge within you?
  • Jer 44:4 : 4 I sent you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying: 'Do not do this detestable thing that I hate.'
  • Mic 2:1-3 : 1 Woe 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. 2 They covet fields and seize them; they take houses and rob them. They oppress a man and his house, a person and their inheritance. 3 Therefore, this is what the LORD says: 'I am planning disaster against this family, from which you cannot free your necks, nor will you walk proudly, for it will be a time of calamity.'
  • Prov 8:13 : 13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior, and perverse speech.
  • Jer 4:2 : 2 Then you will swear, 'As the LORD lives,' in truth, in justice, and in righteousness; the nations will bless themselves in Him, and in Him they will glory.
  • Prov 6:14 : 14 He plots evil with deceit in his heart; he constantly stirs up dissension.
  • Ps 5:5-6 : 5 For You are not a God who delights in wickedness; evil cannot dwell with You. 6 The arrogant cannot stand in Your presence; You hate all evildoers.
  • Ps 10:3 : 3 For the wicked boasts of the desires of his heart, and the greedy man curses and spurns the Lord.
  • Zech 5:3-4 : 3 Then he said to me, 'This is the curse that is going out over the whole land: for everyone who steals will be judged according to what is written on one side, and everyone who swears falsely will be judged according to what is written on the other side.' 4 'I will send it out,' declares the LORD of Hosts, 'and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of the one who swears falsely by my name. It will remain inside their house and consume it completely, including its timber and stones.'
  • Matt 5:28 : 28 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
  • Matt 12:35 : 35 The good person brings out good things from the good treasure of his heart, and the evil person brings out evil things from his evil treasure.

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    16These are the things you must do: Speak the truth to one another, render true and just judgments in your gates,

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    18The word of the LORD of Hosts came to me, saying:

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    10Do not oppress the widow or the orphan, the foreigner or the poor. Do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.'

  • Lev 19:15-18
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    15Do not pervert justice; do not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the great, but judge your neighbor fairly.

    16Do not go about spreading slander among your people. Do not do anything that endangers your neighbor’s life. I am the LORD.

    17Do not hate your brother in your heart. You must surely reprove your neighbor, and do not bear sin because of him.

    18Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.

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    11Do not steal. Do not deceive or lie to one another.

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    13The fear of the LORD is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior, and perverse speech.

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    16You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

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    20You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

  • Prov 3:29
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    29Do not plot harm against your neighbor who lives trustingly beside you.

  • Jer 9:3-6
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    3Beware of your neighbor; do not trust even a brother. Every brother utterly deceives, and every friend spreads slander.

    4Each one deceives his neighbor, and they do not speak the truth. They have trained their tongues to speak lies and exhaust themselves with wrongdoing.

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

    6Therefore, this is what the Lord of Hosts says: Behold, I will refine them and test them, for what else can I do because of the sin of my people?

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    14Seek good and not evil so that you may live, and so the Lord, the God of Hosts, will be with you, just as you have said.

    15Hate evil and love good; establish justice at the gate. Perhaps the Lord, the God of Hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

  • Prov 6:16-17
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    16There are six things the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to Him:

    17haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

  • Jer 7:5
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    3Who does not slander with his tongue, does no harm to his neighbor, and does not bring disgrace upon a relative.

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    16For anyone who does these things, anyone who deals dishonestly, is detestable to the LORD your God.

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    6The arrogant cannot stand in Your presence; You hate all evildoers.

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    28Do not be a false witness against your neighbor or deceive with your lips.

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    8But look, you are trusting in deceptive words that are worthless.

    9Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known,

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  • 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.

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    7For my mouth speaks truth, and wickedness is detestable to my lips.

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    11Stone him to death because he sought to turn you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.