Proverbs 3:29
Don't devise evil against your neighbor, since he dwells securely by you.
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- Prov 6:14 : 14 in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.
- Prov 6:18 : 18 a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,
- Prov 14:22 : 22 Don't they go astray who plot evil? But love and faithfulness belong to those who plan good.
- Prov 16:29-30 : 29 A man of violence entices his neighbor, and leads him in a way that is not good. 30 One who winks his eyes to plot perversities, one who compresses his lips, is bent on evil.
- Jer 18:18-20 : 18 Then they said, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words. 19 Give heed to me, Yahweh, and listen to the voice of those who contend with me. 20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.
- Mic 2:1-2 : 1 Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand. 2 They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
- Ps 35:20 : 20 For they don't speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.
- Ps 55:20 : 20 He raises his hands against his friends. He has violated his covenant.
- Ps 59:3 : 3 For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh.
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