Zechariah 8:17

Easy To Read Version

Don’t make secret plans to hurt your neighbors! Don’t make false promises! You must not enjoy doing those things. Why? Because I hate those things!” The Lord said these things.

Cross References

Psalm 10:3

Evil people brag about the things they want.\par And those greedy people curse God.\par In this way, the evil people show that\par they hate the Lord.\par

Psalm 101:3

I will not have any idols {\cf2\super [536]} in front of me.\par I hate people turning against you like that.\par I will not do that!\par

Proverbs 3:29

Don’t make plans to hurt your neighbor. You live near each other for your own safety!

Proverbs 6:14

That person is a troublemaker. He is always planning to do something bad. He makes trouble everywhere.

Proverbs 8:13

If a person respects the Lord,\par then that person will hate evil.\par I (Wisdom) hate pride\par and people who think they are better\par than other people.\par I hate evil ways, and a lying mouth.\par

Jeremiah 4:14

People of Jerusalem, wash the evil\par from your hearts.\par Make your hearts pure so you can be saved.\par Don’t continue making evil plans.\par

Jeremiah 4:2

If you do those things,\par then you will be able to use my name\par to make a promise:\par You will be able to say,\par ‘As the Lord lives.’\par And you will be able to use those words\par in a truthful, honest, and right way.\par If you do these things, then the nations\par will be blessed by the Lord.\par They will brag about the things\par that the Lord has done.”\par

Jeremiah 44:4

I sent my prophets to those people again and again. Those prophets were my servants. Those prophets spoke my message and said to the people, ‘Don’t do this terrible thing. I hate for you to worship idols.’

Habakkuk 1:13

Your eyes are too good to look at evil.\par You can’t watch people doing wrong.\par So how can you watch\par those evil people win?\par How can you watch bad people\par defeating good people?\par

Zechariah 7:10

Don’t hurt widows and orphans, {\cf2\super [19]} \par strangers, or poor people.\par Don’t even think of doing bad things\par to each other!”\par

Zechariah 8:18

I received this message from the Lord All-Powerful.

Malachi 3:5

Then I will come to you—and I will do the right thing. I will be like a person that is ready to tell the judge about the bad things people did. Some people do evil magic. Some people do the sin of adultery. {\cf2\super [19]} Some people make false promises. Some people cheat their workers—they don’t pay them the money they promised. People don’t help widows and orphans. {\cf2\super [20]} People don’t help strangers. People don’t respect me!” The Lord All-Powerful said these things.

Matthew 12:35

A good person has good things saved in his heart. And so he speaks the good things that come from his heart. But an evil person has evil saved in his heart. So he speaks the evil things that come from his heart.

Matthew 15:19

All these bad things begin in a person’s mind: evil thoughts, murder, adultery, {\cf2\super [210]} sexual sins, stealing, lying, saying bad things against other people.

Matthew 5:28

But I tell you that if a person looks at a woman and wants to sin sexually with her, then that person has already done that sin with the woman in his mind.