Proverbs 6:18 - Revised Standard Version CI

¹⁸ a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil,

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, Feet that be swift in running to mischief,

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ A heart that manufactures wicked thoughts and plans, feet that are swift in running to evil,

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ A heart that deviseth wicked purposes, Feet that are swift in running to mischief,

Common English Bible

¹⁸ a heart set on wicked plans, feet that run quickly to evil,

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ a heart that devises the most wicked thoughts, feet running swiftly unto evil,

Proverbs 6:18 Cross References

Genesis 6:5

The Lord 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.

Psalm 36:4

He plots mischief while on his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he spurns not evil.

Proverbs 1:16

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

Proverbs 15:26

The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord, the words of the pure are pleasing to him.

Proverbs 24:2

for their minds devise violence, and their lips talk of mischief.

Proverbs 24:8

He who plans to do evil will be called a mischief-maker.

Isaiah 59:7

Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, desolation and destruction are in their highways.

Jeremiah 4:14

O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?

Micah 2:1

Woe to those who devise wickedness and work evil upon their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Zechariah 8:17

do not devise evil in your hearts against one another, and love no false oath, for all these things I hate, says the Lord.”

Romans 3:15

“Their feet are swift to shed blood,