Proverbs 24:9

World English Bible (2000)

The schemes of folly are sin. The mocker is detested by men.

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Referenced Verses

  • Matt 15:19 : 19 For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.
  • Acts 8:22 : 22 Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.
  • Prov 29:8 : 8 Mockers stir up a city, but wise men turn away anger.
  • Isa 55:7 : 7 let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
  • Jer 4:14 : 14 Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?
  • Matt 5:28 : 28 but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
  • Matt 9:4 : 4 Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, "Why do you think evil in your hearts?
  • Gen 6:5 : 5 Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
  • Gen 8:21 : 21 Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done.
  • Ps 119:113 : 113 I hate double-minded men, but I love your law.
  • Prov 22:10 : 10 Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out; yes, quarrels and insults will stop.
  • Prov 23:7 : 7 for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. "Eat and drink!" he says to you, but his heart is not with you.
  • Prov 24:8 : 8 One who plots to do evil will be called a schemer.
  • 2 Cor 10:5 : 5 throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;

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