Psalm 36:4

Modern English Version

He devises mischief on his bed; he sets himself on a path that is not good; he does not reject evil.

Cross References

Esther 5:14

Then his wife Zeresh and all his friends suggested to him, “Let a gallows fifty cubits tall be constructed, and in the morning ask the king if Mordecai can be hanged on it. Then go merrily with the king to the banquet.” And the suggestion pleased Haman, so he had the gallows constructed.

Esther 6:4

So the king said, “Who is out in the courtyard?” Now Haman had just then entered from across the palace courtyard in order to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.

Job 15:16

How much more abhorred and corrupt is man, who drinks iniquity like water!

Psalm 38:12

Those who seek my life lay their snares; those who seek my harm speak of destruction, and plan treachery all day long.

Psalm 52:3

You love evil more than good, and lying rather than speaking what is right.   Selah

Psalm 97:10

You who love the Lord, hate evil! He preserves the souls of His saints; He delivers them from the hand of the wicked.

Proverbs 24:2

for their heart devises violence, and their lips talk of trouble.

Proverbs 24:23

These also are sayings of the wise: It is not good to show partiality in judgment.

Proverbs 4:16

For they do not sleep unless they have done evil; their sleep is taken away unless they make someone stumble.

Isaiah 65:2

I have spread out My hands all day to a rebellious people who walk in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;

Jeremiah 4:22

“For My people are foolish, they have not known Me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.”

Jeremiah 6:16

Thus says the Lord: Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths where the good way is and walk in it, and you shall find rest for your souls. But they said, “We will not walk in it.”

Jeremiah 8:6

I listened and heard, but they did not speak what is right. No man repented of his wickedness, saying, “What have I done?” Everyone turned to his course, as the horse rushes into the battle.

Amos 5:15

Hate evil and love good, and establish justice at the gate. It may then be that the Lord God of Hosts will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

Micah 2:1

Woe to those who conceive wickedness, to those who devise evil on their beds! At morning’s light they execute it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Micah 6:8

He has told you, O man, what is good— and what does the Lord require of you, but to do justice and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

Matthew 27:1

When the morning came, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put Him to death.

Acts 23:12

At daybreak some of the Jews conspired under oath, saying they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

Romans 1:32

who know the righteous requirement of God, that those who commit such things are worthy of death. They not only do them, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.

Romans 12:9

Let love be without hypocrisy. Hate what is evil. Cling to what is good.

Revelation 2:2

I know your works, your labor and your patience, and that you cannot bear those who are evil. And you have tested those who say they are apostles, but are not, and have found them to be liars.

1 Samuel 19:11

Saul also sent messengers to the house of David, to watch him and to slay him in the morning. But Michal, wife of David, told him, saying, “If you do not save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be dead.”