Proverbs 24:8 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁸ He that deviseth to do evil, Men shall call him a mischievous person.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ He that deviseth to do evil Shall be called a mischievous person.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ He who plans to do evil will be called a mischief-maker.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ He that deviseth to do evil, Men shall call him a mischief-maker.

Common English Bible

⁸ Those who plot evil will be called master schemers.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ Whoever intends to do evil shall be called foolish.

Proverbs 24:8 Cross References

Psalm 21:11

For they intended evil against thee: They imagined a device, which they are not able to perform.

Romans 1:30

backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

Proverbs 14:22

Do they not err that devise evil? But mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.

Proverbs 6:18

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

Proverbs 6:14

Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth evil continually; He soweth discord.

Nahum 1:11

There is one gone forth out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, that counselleth wickedness.

Isaiah 32:7

The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the meek with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.

Proverbs 24:9

The thought of the foolish is sin: And the scorner is an abomination to men.

Proverbs 24:2

For their heart studieth oppression, And their lips talk of mischief.

1 Kings 2:44

The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all the wickedness which thine heart is privy to, that thou didst to David my father: therefore the LORD shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head.