Verse 10

The soul of the wicked desires evil; His neighbor finds no mercy in his eyes.

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 3:29 : 29 Don't devise evil against your neighbor, Seeing he dwells securely by you.
  • Mic 3:2-3 : 2 You who hate the good, And love the evil; Who tear off their skin, And their flesh from off their bones; 3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, And flay their skin from off them, And break their bones, And chop them in pieces, as for the pot, And as flesh within the caldron.
  • Mark 7:21-22 : 21 For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts, 22 covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.
  • 1 Cor 10:6 : 6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
  • Jas 2:13 : 13 For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
  • Jas 4:1-5 : 1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members? 2 You lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. You don't have, because you don't ask. 3 You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures. 4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously"?
  • Jas 5:4-6 : 4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts. 5 You have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter. 6 You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn't resist you.
  • 1 John 2:16 : 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's.
  • Prov 12:12 : 12 The wicked desires the plunder of evil men, But the root of the righteous flourishes.
  • Prov 21:13 : 13 Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, He will also cry out, but shall not be heard.
  • Isa 32:6-8 : 6 For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice profanity, and to utter error against Yahweh, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail. 7 The instruments of the churl are evil: he devises wicked devices to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right. 8 But the noble devises noble things; and in noble things shall he continue.
  • 1 Sam 25:8-9 : 8 Ask your young men, and they will tell you: therefore let the young men find favor in your eyes; for we come in a good day. Please give whatever comes to your hand, to your servants, and to your son David. 9 When David's young men came, they spoke to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased. 10 Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? there are many servants now-a-days who break away every man from his master. 11 Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my meat that I have killed for my shearers, and give it to men who I don't know where they come from?
  • Ps 36:4 : 4 He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good; He doesn't abhor evil.
  • Ps 52:2-3 : 2 Your tongue plots destruction, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. 3 You love evil more than good, Lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah.
  • Ps 112:5 : 5 It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.
  • Ps 112:9 : 9 He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.