But when the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon were sent to him to inquire about the wonder that had happened in the land, God left him alone to test him, to know all that was in his heart.
Mark 7:22 - Tree of Life Version adultery, greed, wickedness, deceit, lustfulness, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Coveting (a greedy desire to have more wealth), dangerous and destructive wickedness, deceit; unrestrained (indecent) conduct; an evil eye (envy), slander (evil speaking, malicious misrepresentation, abusiveness), pride (the sin of an uplifted heart against God and man), foolishness (folly, lack of sense, recklessness, thoughtlessness). American Standard Version (1901) covetings, wickednesses, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, railing, pride, foolishness: Common English Bible adultery, greed, evil actions, deceit, unrestrained immorality, envy, insults, arrogance, and foolishness. Catholic Public Domain Version thefts, avarice, wickedness, deceitfulness, homosexuality, an evil eye, blasphemy, self-exaltation, foolishness. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. |
But when the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon were sent to him to inquire about the wonder that had happened in the land, God left him alone to test him, to know all that was in his heart.
The wicked one, with his nose in the air, never seeks Him. All his thoughts are: “There is no God.”
A clever person conceals his knowledge, but the heart of a fool blurts out folly.
Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but a rod of discipline will drive it far from him.
Even if you pound the fool along with the grain in a mortar with a pestle, his foolishness would never leave him.
A stingy man chases after riches, but does not know that poverty will overtake him.
So I turned my heart to understand, to search and seek out wisdom and an explanation of things and to know the stupidity of wickedness and madness of folly.
transgressing and denying Adonai, turning back from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lying words from the heart.
Their feet run after evil. They rush to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Violence and ruin are on their highways.
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and incurable—who can know it?
Am I not permitted to do what I want with what belongs to me? Or is your eye evil because I am good?’
But if your eye is bad, your body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
For from within, out of the heart of men, come evil intentions, sexual immorality, theft, murder,
and every high-minded thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God. We are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Messiah—
Watch yourself, so there is no unworthy thing in your heart saying, ‘The seventh year, the year of cancelling debts, is near,’ and your eye is evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing. Then he may call out to Adonai against you, and it will be a sin upon you.
The most tender and delicate man among you—his eye will become evil against his brother and the wife of his bosom and the rest of his children that he has left.
The tender and delicate woman among you, who never ventured to set the sole of her foot on the ground out of delicateness and tenderness—her eye will become evil against the husband of her bosom and her son and daughter.
For this is God’s will, that you silence the ignorance of foolish men by doing good.
Likewise, you younger ones, submit yourselves to the elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”