Cross References

Proverbs 24:8

New English Translation

The one who plans to do evil will be called a scheming person.

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Then the king said to Shimei, “You are well aware of the way you mistreated my father David. The Lord will punish you for what you did.

Yes, they intend to do you harm; they dream up a scheme, but they do not succeed.

Do not those who devise evil go astray? But those who plan good exhibit faithful covenant love.

for their hearts contemplate violence, and their lips speak harm.

A foolish scheme is sin, and the scorner is an abomination to people.

he plots evil with perverse thoughts in his heart, he spreads contention at all times.

a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that are swift to run to evil,

A deceiver’s methods are evil; he dreams up evil plans to ruin the poor with lies, even when the needy are in the right.

From you, O Nineveh, one has marched forth who plots evil against the Lord, a wicked military strategist.

slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, contrivers of all sorts of evil, disobedient to parents,