Micah 2:1
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Woe to the Oppressors
2 (A)Woe to those who devise wickedness
and work evil (B)on their beds!
When the morning dawns, they perform it,
because it is in the power of their hand.
Psalm 36:4
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4 He (A)plots (B)trouble while on his bed;
he sets himself in (C)a way that is not good;
(D)he does not reject evil.
Isaiah 32:7
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7 As for the scoundrel—(A)his devices are evil;
he plans wicked schemes
to ruin the poor with lying words,
even when the plea of the needy is right.
Nahum 1:11
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11 From you came one
(A)who plotted evil against the Lord,
a worthless counselor.
Hosea 7:6-7
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6 For with hearts like an oven (A)they approach their intrigue;
all night their anger smolders;
in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
7 All of them are hot as an oven,
and they devour their rulers.
All (B)their kings (C)have fallen,
and none of them calls upon me.
Psalm 7:14-16
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14 Behold, the wicked man (A)conceives evil
and is (B)pregnant with mischief
and gives birth to lies.
15 He makes (C)a pit, digging it out,
and falls into the hole that he has made.
16 His (D)mischief returns upon his own head,
and on his own skull his violence descends.
Proverbs 6:12-19
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12 (A)A worthless person, a wicked man,
goes about with (B)crooked speech,
13 (C)winks with his eyes, signals[a] with his feet,
points with his finger,
14 with (D)perverted heart (E)devises evil,
continually (F)sowing discord;
15 therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly;
(G)in a moment he will be broken (H)beyond healing.
16 There are (I)six things that the Lord hates,
(J)seven that are an abomination to him:
17 (K)haughty eyes, (L)a lying tongue,
and (M)hands that shed innocent blood,
18 (N)a heart that devises wicked plans,
(O)feet that make haste to run to evil,
19 (P)a false witness who (Q)breathes out lies,
and one who (R)sows discord among brothers.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 6:13 Hebrew scrapes
Romans 1:30
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30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
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Jeremiah 18:18
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18 Then they said, (A)“Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, (B)for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. (C)Come, let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words.”
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Isaiah 59:3
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3 (A)For your hands are defiled with blood
and your fingers with iniquity;
your lips have spoken lies;
your tongue mutters wickedness.
Proverbs 4:16
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16 For they (A)cannot sleep unless they have done wrong;
they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble.
Proverbs 3:27
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Footnotes
- Proverbs 3:27 Hebrew Do not withhold good from its owners
Genesis 31:29
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29 It is (A)in my power to do you harm. But the (B)God of your[a] father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, (C)either good or bad.’
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- Genesis 31:29 The Hebrew for your is plural here
Acts 23:12
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A Plot to Kill Paul
12 When it was day, (A)the Jews made a plot and (B)bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.
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John 19:11
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11 Jesus answered him, (A)“You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore (B)he who delivered me over to you (C)has the greater sin.”
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Luke 22:2-6
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2 And the chief priests and the scribes (A)were seeking how to put him to death, for they feared the people.
Judas to Betray Jesus
3 (B)Then (C)Satan entered into (D)Judas called Iscariot, who was of the number of the twelve. 4 He went away and conferred with the chief priests and (E)officers how he might betray him to them. 5 And they were glad, and agreed to give him money. 6 So he consented and sought an opportunity to (F)betray him to them in the absence of a crowd.
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Deuteronomy 28:32
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32 (A)Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and fail with longing for them all day long, (B)but you shall be helpless.
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Acts 23:15
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15 Now therefore you, along with the council, give notice to the tribune to bring him down to you, as though you were going to determine his case more exactly. And we are ready to kill him before he comes near.”
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Proverbs 12:2
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2 A good man (A)obtains favor from the Lord,
but a man of evil devices he condemns.
Psalm 140:1-8
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Deliver Me, O Lord, from Evil Men
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.
140 (A)Deliver me, O Lord, from evil men;
preserve me from (B)violent men,
2 who plan evil things in their heart
and (C)stir up wars continually.
3 They make (D)their tongue sharp as (E)a serpent's,
and (F)under their lips is the (G)venom of asps. Selah
4 Guard me, O Lord, from the hands of the wicked;
preserve me from (H)violent men,
who have planned to trip up my feet.
5 The arrogant have (I)hidden a trap for me,
and with cords they have spread (J)a net;[a]
beside the way they have set (K)snares for me. Selah
6 (L)I say to the Lord, You are my God;
give ear to (M)the voice of my pleas for mercy, O Lord!
7 O Lord, my Lord, (N)the strength of my salvation,
you have covered my head in the day of battle.
8 (O)Grant not, O Lord, the desires of the wicked;
do not further their[b] evil plot, or (P)they will be exalted! Selah
Footnotes
- Psalm 140:5 Or they have spread cords as a net
- Psalm 140:8 Hebrew his
Luke 20:19
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Paying Taxes to Caesar
19 (A)The scribes and the chief priests sought to lay hands on him at that very hour, for they perceived that he had told this parable against them, but they feared the people.
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Matthew 27:1-2
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Ezekiel 11:2
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2 And he said to me, (A)“Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity and who give wicked counsel in this city;
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Esther 9:25
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25 But when it came before the king, he gave orders in writing (A)that his evil plan that he had devised against the Jews (B)should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
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