Proverbs 24:2

Geneva Bible (1560)

For their heart imagineth destruction, and their lippes speake mischiefe.

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  • Ps 10:7 : 7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceite and fraude: vnder his tongue is mischiefe and iniquitie.
  • Ps 28:3 : 3 Drawe mee not away with the wicked, and with the woorkers of iniquitie: which speake friendly to their neighbours, when malice is in their hearts.
  • Ps 7:14 : 14 Beholde, hee shall trauaile with wickednes: for he hath conceiued mischiefe, but he shall bring foorth a lye.
  • Job 15:35 : 35 For they conceiue mischiefe and bring foorth vanitie, and their bellie hath prepared deceite.
  • 1 Sam 23:9 : 9 And Dauid hauing knowledge that Saul imagined mischiefe against him, saide to Abiathar the Priest, Bring the Ephod.
  • Isa 59:4 : 4 No man calleth for iustice: no man contendeth for trueth: they trust in vanitie, & speake vaine things: they conceiue mischiefe, and bring foorth iniquitie.
  • Matt 26:3-4 : 3 Then assembled together the chiefe Priests, and the Scribes, and the Elders of ye people into the hall of the high Priest called Caiaphas: 4 And consulted together that they might take Iesus by subtiltie, and kill him.
  • Acts 13:10 : 10 And sayde, O full of all subtiltie and all mischiefe, the childe of the deuill, and enemie of all righteousnesse, wilt thou not cease to peruert the straight waies of the Lord?
  • Luke 23:20-21 : 20 Then Pilate spake againe to them, willing to let Iesus loose. 21 But they cried, saying, Crucifie, crucifie him.
  • Mic 7:3 : 3 To make good for the euil of their hands, the prince asked, and the iudge iudgeth for a reward: therefore the great man he speaketh out the corruption of his soule: so they wrapt it vp.
  • Esth 3:6-7 : 6 Now he thought it too litle to lay hands onely on Mordecai: & because they had shewed him the people of Mordecai, Haman sought to destroy all the Iewes, that were throughout the whole kingdome of Ahashuerosh, euen the people of Mordecai. 7 In the first moneth (that is the moneth Nisan) in the twelft yere of King Ahashuerosh, they cast Pur (that is a lot) before Haman, from day to day, & from moneth to moneth, vnto the twelft moneth, that is the moneth Adar.
  • Ps 36:4 : 4 Hee imagineth mischiefe vpon his bed: he setteth himselfe vpon a way, that is not good, and doeth not abhorre euill.
  • Ps 64:4-6 : 4 To shoote at the vpright in secrete: they shoote at him suddenly, and feare not. 5 They encourage themselues in a wicked purpose: they commune together to lay snares priuilie, and say, Who shall see them? 6 They haue sought out iniquities, and haue accomplished that which they sought out, euen euery one his secret thoughtes, and the depth of his heart.
  • Ps 140:2 : 2 Which imagine euill things in their heart, and make warre continually.
  • Prov 6:14 : 14 Lewde things are in his heart: he imagineth euill at all times, and raiseth vp contentions.
  • Prov 24:8 : 8 Hee that imagineth to doe euill, men shall call him an autour of wickednes.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 140:2-3
    2 verses
    79%

    2Which imagine euill things in their heart, and make warre continually.

    3They haue sharpened their tongues like a serpent: adders poyson is vnder their lips. Selah.

  • Prov 6:14
    78%

    14Lewde things are in his heart: he imagineth euill at all times, and raiseth vp contentions.

  • Prov 12:20
    77%

    20Deceite is in the heart of them that imagine euill: but to the counsellers of peace shall be ioye.

  • Prov 24:8
    77%

    8Hee that imagineth to doe euill, men shall call him an autour of wickednes.

  • Prov 6:18
    77%

    18An heart that imagineth wicked enterprises, feete that be swift in running to mischiefe,

  • Rom 3:13-16
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    76%

    13Their throte is an open sepulchre: they haue vsed their tongues to deceit: the poyson of aspes is vnder their lippes.

    14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitternesse.

    15Their feete are swift to shead blood.

    16Destruction & calamity are in their waies,

  • Job 15:35
    76%

    35For they conceiue mischiefe and bring foorth vanitie, and their bellie hath prepared deceite.

  • Ps 10:7
    76%

    7His mouth is full of cursing and deceite and fraude: vnder his tongue is mischiefe and iniquitie.

  • Prov 24:1
    76%

    1Bee not thou enuious against euill men, neither desire to be with them.

  • Prov 16:30
    76%

    30He shutteth his eyes to deuise wickednes: he moueth his lippes, and bringeth euil to passe.

  • Isa 59:7
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    7Their feete runne to euill, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are wicked thoughts: desolation and destruction is in their paths.

  • Prov 1:16
    75%

    16For their feete runne to euill, & make haste to shed blood.

  • Ps 12:2
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    2They speake deceitfully euery one with his neighbour, flattering with their lips, and speake with a double heart.

  • Ps 21:11
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    11For they intended euill against thee, and imagined mischiefe, but they shall not preuaile.

  • Ps 35:20
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    20For they speake not as friendes: but they imagine deceitfull woordes against the quiet of the lande.

  • Ps 64:5-6
    2 verses
    75%

    5They encourage themselues in a wicked purpose: they commune together to lay snares priuilie, and say, Who shall see them?

    6They haue sought out iniquities, and haue accomplished that which they sought out, euen euery one his secret thoughtes, and the depth of his heart.

  • Prov 26:23-24
    2 verses
    75%

    23As siluer drosse ouerlayde vpon a potsheard, so are burning lips, and an euill heart.

    24He that hateth, will counterfaite with his lips, but in his heart he layeth vp deceite.

  • Jer 9:8
    75%

    8Their tongue is as an arow shot out, and speaketh deceite: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in his heart hee layeth waite for him.

  • Prov 4:16
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    16For they can not sleepe, except they haue done euill, and their sleepe departeth except they cause some to fall.

  • Ps 5:9
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    9For no constancie is in their mouth: within, they are very corruption: their throte is an open sepulchre, and they flatter with their tongue.

  • Ps 36:3-4
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    75%

    3The wordes of his mouth are iniquitie and deceit: hee hath left off to vnderstand and to doe good.

    4Hee imagineth mischiefe vpon his bed: he setteth himselfe vpon a way, that is not good, and doeth not abhorre euill.

  • Mic 2:1
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    1Wo vnto them, that imagine iniquitie, and worke wickednesse vpon their beddes: when the morning is light they practise it because their hande hath power.

  • Ps 52:2
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    2Thy tongue imagineth mischiefe, and is like a sharpe rasor, that cutteth deceitfully.

  • Prov 17:4
    74%

    4The wicked giueth heed to false lippes, and a lyer hearkeneth to the naughtie tongue.

  • Ps 140:9
    74%

    9As for the chiefe of them, that compasse me about, let the mischiefe of their owne lippes come vpon them.

  • Prov 2:14
    74%

    14Which reioyce in doing euill, and delite in the frowardnesse of the wicked,

  • Ps 59:12
    74%

    12For the sinne of their mouth, and the words of their lips: and let them be taken in their pride, euen for their periurie and lies, that they speake.

  • Mic 7:3
    74%

    3To make good for the euil of their hands, the prince asked, and the iudge iudgeth for a reward: therefore the great man he speaketh out the corruption of his soule: so they wrapt it vp.

  • Prov 16:27
    74%

    27A wicked man diggeth vp euill, and in his lippes is like burning fire.

  • Prov 17:20
    74%

    20The froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a naughtie tongue, shall fall into euill.

  • Ps 50:19
    74%

    19Thou giuest thy mouth to euill, and with thy tongue thou forgest deceit.

  • Ps 73:8-9
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    8They are licentious, and speake wickedly of their oppression: they talke presumptuously.

    9They set their mouth against heauen, and their tongue walketh through the earth.

  • Prov 15:28
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    28The heart of the righteous studieth to answere: but the wicked mans mouth babbleth euil thinges.

  • Ps 62:4
    73%

    4Yet they consult to cast him downe from his dignitie: their delight is in lies, they blesse with their mouthes, but curse with their hearts. Selah.

  • Ps 55:10
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    10Day and night they goe about it vpon the walles thereof: both iniquitie and mischiefe are in the middes of it.

  • Prov 1:18
    73%

    18So they lay waite for blood and lie priuily for their liues.

  • Ps 28:3
    73%

    3Drawe mee not away with the wicked, and with the woorkers of iniquitie: which speake friendly to their neighbours, when malice is in their hearts.

  • Mic 6:12
    73%

    12For the rich men thereof are full of crueltie, & the inhabitants thereof haue spoken lyes, and their tongue is deceitfull in their mouth.

  • Hos 7:3
    73%

    3They make the King glad with their wickednesse, and the princes with their lies.

  • Jer 9:5
    73%

    5And euery one wil deceiue his friende, and wil not speake the trueth: for they haue taught their tongues to speake lies, and take great paynes to do wickedly.

  • Prov 24:22
    73%

    22For their destruction shal rise suddenly, and who knoweth the ruine of them both?

  • Ps 11:2
    72%

    2For loe, the wicked bende their bowe, and make readie their arrowes vpon the string, that they may secretly shoote at them, which are vpright in heart.