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Zechariah 8:17

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Do not plot evil  in your hearts against your neighbour,  and do not love perjury,  for I hate all this’ #– #this is the Lord’s declaration.

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‘I will come to you in judgement, and I will be ready to witness against sorcerers and adulterers; against those who swear falsely; against those who oppress the hired worker, the widow, and the fatherless; and against those who deny justice to the resident foreigner.  They do not fear me,’  says the Lord of Armies.


Your eyes  are too pure  to look on evil, and you cannot tolerate wrongdoing. So why do you tolerate those who are treacherous? Why are you silent while one  who is wicked swallows up one  who is more righteous than himself?


So I sent you all my servants the prophets time and time again,  , saying, “Don’t commit this detestable action that I hate.”


Wash the evil from your heart,   Jerusalem, so that you will be delivered. How long will you harbour malicious thoughts?


Don’t plan any harm against your neighbour, for he trusts you and lives near you.


For from the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false testimonies,   slander.


A good person produces good things from his storeroom of good, and an evil person produces evil things from his storeroom of evil.


But I tell you, everyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.


Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the resident foreigner or the poor,  and do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.”


then you can swear, ‘As the  Lord  lives,’ in truth,  justice, and righteousness, and then the nations will be blessed  by him and will boast in him.


To fear the Lord is to hate evil. I hate arrogant pride, evil conduct, and perverse speech.


He always plots evil  with perversity in his heart; he stirs up trouble.


Then the word of the Lord of Armies came to me:





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