Frowardness is in his heart, he devises mischief continually; he sows discord.
Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war.
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.
He devises mischief on his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he abhors not evil.
Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.
An ungodly man digs up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.
He that has a fraudulent heart finds no good: and he that has a perverse tongue falls into mischief.
Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
The way of man is fraudulent and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.
He that sows iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.
He that devises to do evil shall be called a mischievous person.
Devise not evil against your neighbor, seeing he dwells securely by you.
For the fraudulent is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.
The instruments also of the churl are evil: he devises wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.
But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
Then said he to me, Son of man, these are the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city:
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it has no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
Woe to them that 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.
Now I beseech you, brothers, mark them which cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which you have learned; and avoid them.