Zechariah 8:17

KJV1611 – Modern English

And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbor; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, says the LORD.

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  • Prov 3:29 : 29 Do not devise evil against your neighbor, seeing he dwells securely by you.
  • Prov 6:16-19 : 16 These six things the LORD hates: yes, seven are an abomination to him: 17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, 18 A heart that devises wicked imaginations, feet that are swift in running to mischief, 19 A false witness who speaks lies, and one who sows discord among brethren.
  • Zech 7:10 : 10 And do not oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you plot evil against his brother in your heart.
  • Mal 3:5 : 5 And I will come near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those who oppress the laborer in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who turn aside the stranger from his right, and do not fear me, says the LORD of hosts.
  • Hab 1:13 : 13 You are of purer eyes than to behold evil and cannot look on wickedness. Why do You look on those who deal treacherously and hold Your tongue when the wicked devours a man more righteous than he?
  • Matt 15:19 : 19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
  • Jer 4:14 : 14 O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your vain thoughts lodge within you?
  • Jer 44:4 : 4 However I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not do this abominable thing that I hate.
  • Mic 2:1-3 : 1 Woe 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. 2 They covet fields and take them by violence, and houses, and take them away; so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage. 3 Therefore thus says the LORD; Behold, against this family I devise an evil from which you shall not remove your necks; neither shall you go haughtily, for this time is evil.
  • Prov 8:13 : 13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil; pride and arrogance and the evil way, and the perverse mouth, do I hate.
  • Jer 4:2 : 2 And you shall swear, The LORD lives, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.
  • Prov 6:14 : 14 Perversity is in his heart, he devises mischief continually; he sows discord.
  • Ps 5:5-6 : 5 The foolish shall not stand in your sight; you hate all workers of iniquity. 6 You shall destroy those who speak falsehood; the LORD will abhor the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.
  • Ps 10:3 : 3 For the wicked boasts of his heart's desire, and blesses the greedy, whom the LORD abhors.
  • Zech 5:3-4 : 3 Then he said to me, This is the curse that goes forth over the face of the whole earth: for everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it on this side; and everyone who swears shall be cut off according to it on that side. 4 I will bring it forth, says the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it, with its timber and its stones.
  • Matt 5:28 : 28 But I say to you, that whoever looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
  • Matt 12:35 : 35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart brings forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things.

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    18And the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying,

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    10And do not oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you plot evil against his brother in your heart.

  • Lev 19:15-18
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    15You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: you shall not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness you shall judge your neighbor.

    16You shall not go around as a talebearer among your people; nor shall you stand against the life of your neighbor: I am the LORD.

    17You shall not hate your brother in your heart; you shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not suffer sin upon him.

    18You shall not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD.

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    11You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another.

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    13The fear of the LORD is to hate evil; pride and arrogance and the evil way, and the perverse mouth, do I hate.

  • Exod 20:16
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    16You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

  • Deut 5:20
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    20Neither shall you bear false witness against your neighbor.

  • Prov 3:29
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    29Do not devise evil against your neighbor, seeing he dwells securely by you.

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    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.

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    5And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.

    6Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says the LORD.

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    14Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as you have spoken.

    15Hate evil, and love good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

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    16These six things the LORD hates: yes, seven are an abomination to him:

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

  • Jer 7:5
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    3He who does not slander with his tongue, nor do evil to his neighbor, nor take up a reproach against his neighbor.

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    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.

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    6You shall destroy those who speak falsehood; the LORD will abhor the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

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    8For I, the Lord, love justice, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

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    28Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your lips.

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    11For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, says the LORD.

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    23Diverse weights are an abomination to the LORD, and a false balance is not good.

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    5And I will come near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those who oppress the laborer in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who turn aside the stranger from his right, and do not fear me, says the LORD of hosts.

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    8Their tongue is like an arrow shot out; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lies in wait.

  • Jer 7:8-9
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    8Behold, you trust in deceptive words that cannot profit.

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    17They still say to those who despise me, 'The LORD has said, You shall have peace.' And they say to everyone who walks after the imagination of his own heart, 'No evil shall come upon you.'

  • Prov 12:20
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    20Deceit is in the heart of those who imagine evil, but to the counselors of peace there is joy.

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    7For my mouth will speak truth; wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

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    1A false balance is an abomination to the LORD, but an accurate weight is His delight.

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    11And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this among you.