Don’t plan any harm against your neighbour, for he trusts you and lives near you.
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. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 and let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the LORD. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And let none of you think or imagine or devise evil or injury in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath, for all these things I hate, says the Lord. American Standard Version (1901) and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith Jehovah. Common English Bible Don’t plan evil for each other. Don’t adore swearing falsely, for all of these are things that I hate, says the LORD. Catholic Public Domain Version And let not anyone think up evil against his friend in your hearts. And do not choose to swear falsely. For all these are things that I hate, says the Lord. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his friend: and love not a false oath: for all these are the things that I hate, saith the Lord. |
Don’t plan any harm against your neighbour, for he trusts you and lives near you.
He always plots evil with perversity in his heart; he stirs up trouble.
To fear the Lord is to hate evil. I hate arrogant pride, evil conduct, and perverse speech.
Wash the evil from your heart, Jerusalem, so that you will be delivered. How long will you harbour malicious thoughts?
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.
So I sent you all my servants the prophets time and time again, , saying, “Don’t commit this detestable action that I hate.”
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?
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.”
‘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.
A good person produces good things from his storeroom of good, and an evil person produces evil things from his storeroom of evil.
For from the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false testimonies, slander.
But I tell you, everyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.