Isaiah 59:7

KJV1611 – Modern English

Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; devastation and destruction are in their paths.

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  • Prov 1:16 : 16 For their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.
  • Prov 6:17 : 17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
  • Mark 7:21-22 : 21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, 22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
  • Rom 3:15-17 : 15 'Their feet are swift to shed blood:' 16 'Destruction and misery are in their ways:' 17 'And the way of peace they have not known:'
  • Rev 17:6 : 6 And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus; and when I saw her, I marveled with great wonder.
  • Acts 8:20-22 : 20 But Peter said to him, Your money perish with you, because you thought that the gift of God could be purchased with money. 21 You have neither part nor portion in this matter, for your heart is not right in the sight of God. 22 Repent therefore of this wickedness, and pray God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.
  • Prov 15:26 : 26 The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD, but the words of the pure are pleasant words.
  • Prov 24:9 : 9 The thought of foolishness is sin, and the scoffer is an abomination to men.
  • Isa 59:3 : 3 For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness.
  • Isa 60:18 : 18 Violence shall no longer be heard in your land, neither wasting nor destruction within your borders; but you shall call your walls Salvation and your gates Praise.
  • Jer 22:17 : 17 But your eyes and your heart are set only on your covetousness, and on shedding innocent blood, and on oppression, and on violence, to do it.
  • Lam 4:13 : 13 For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, who have shed the blood of the just in her midst,
  • Ezek 9:9 : 9 Then he said to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD has forsaken the earth, and the LORD does not see.
  • Ezek 22:6 : 6 Behold, the princes of Israel, every one, were in you using their power to shed blood.
  • Matt 23:31-37 : 31 Therefore you are witnesses against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets. 32 Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers' guilt. 33 Serpents, brood of vipers, how can you escape the condemnation of hell? 34 Therefore, indeed, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes: some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city: 35 that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. 36 Truly I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation. 37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you, how often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!

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  • Prov 1:15-18
    4 verses
    88%

    15My son, do not walk in the way with them, hold back your foot from their path;

    16For their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.

    17Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

    18And they lie in wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives.

  • Rom 3:15-17
    3 verses
    86%

    15'Their feet are swift to shed blood:'

    16'Destruction and misery are in their ways:'

    17'And the way of peace they have not known:'

  • 8The way of peace they do not know; and there is no justice in their paths: they have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever walks therein shall not know peace.

  • 6Their webs will not become garments, nor will they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.

  • Prov 6:17-18
    2 verses
    80%

    17A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

    18A heart that devises wicked imaginations, feet that are swift in running to mischief,

  • Isa 59:3-4
    2 verses
    76%

    3For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness.

    4No one calls for justice, nor does anyone plead for truth: they trust in vanity and speak lies; they conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity.

  • 2Yes, in heart you work wickedness; you weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

  • 2For their hearts plot destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.

  • 3That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asks, and the judge asks for a reward; and the great man utters his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.

  • 9The look on their faces testifies against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they do not hide it. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

  • 1Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it because it is in the power of their hand.

  • Prov 4:16-17
    2 verses
    74%

    16For they do not sleep unless they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

    17For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

  • Prov 2:13-15
    3 verses
    74%

    13Who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness;

    14Who rejoice to do evil and delight in the perversity of the wicked;

    15Whose ways are crooked, and who are perverse in their paths:

  • 11If they say, "Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;

  • Ps 64:5-6
    2 verses
    73%

    5They encourage themselves in an evil matter; they talk of laying snares secretly; they say, Who shall see them?

    6They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search; the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.

  • 2Who devise mischiefs in their hearts; continually they gather together for war.

  • 21They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn innocent blood.

  • Ps 55:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    10Day and night they go about it upon its walls; mischief and sorrow are in the midst of it.

    11Wickedness is in the midst of it; deceit and guile do not depart from its streets.

  • 27Add iniquity to their iniquity, and let them not come into your righteousness.

  • 2And they do not consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own actions have surrounded them; they are before my face.

  • 17But your eyes and your heart are set only on your covetousness, and on shedding innocent blood, and on oppression, and on violence, to do it.

  • 7The robbery of the wicked will destroy them, because they refuse to do justice.

  • 8They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their hearts on their iniquity.

  • 11For they intended evil against you: they devised a mischievous scheme, which they are not able to perform.

  • 35They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepares deceit.

  • 14They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have defiled themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.

  • 10Destroy them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against you.

  • 3And they bend their tongues like a bow for lies; but they are not valiant for the truth on the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says the LORD.

  • 21But as for those whose hearts follow the hearts of their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own heads, says the Lord GOD.

  • 8Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity, and it is polluted with blood.

  • 29The way of the LORD is strength to the upright, but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.

  • 14The wicked have drawn the sword and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay those who are of upright conduct.

  • 11There is one come out from you, who imagines evil against the LORD, a wicked counselor.

  • 15The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made; in the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.

  • 2By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.

  • 6They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, waiting for my life.

  • 12For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride, and for the cursing and lying which they speak.

  • 5The thoughts of the righteous are right, but the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.