Proverbs 24:8

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Proverbs 24:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible

6 Only with sound guidance should you wage war, and victory lies in a multitude of counselors.

7 Wisdom is too high for a fool; he does not open his mouth in the meeting place.

8 He who plots evil will be called a schemer.

9 A foolish scheme is sin, and a mocker is detestable to men.

10 If you faint in the day of distress, how small is your strength!

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Proverbs 24:2

for their hearts devise violence, and their lips declare trouble.

Proverbs 24:9

A foolish scheme is sin, and a mocker is detestable to men.

Proverbs 6:14

With deceit in his heart he devises evil; he continually sows discord.

Proverbs 6:18

a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that run swiftly to evil,

Proverbs 14:22

Do not those who contrive evil go astray? But those who plan goodness find loving devotion and faithfulness.

1 Kings 2:44

The king also said, “You know in your heart all the evil that you did to my father David. Therefore the LORD will bring your evil back upon your head.

Psalms 21:11

Though they intend You harm, the schemes they devise will not prevail.

Isaiah 10:7

But this is not his intention; this is not his plan. For it is in his heart to destroy and cut off many nations.

Isaiah 10:8

“Are not all my commanders kings?” he says.

Isaiah 10:9

“Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?

Isaiah 10:10

As my hand seized the idolatrous kingdoms whose images surpassed those of Jerusalem and Samaria,

Isaiah 10:11

and as I have done to Samaria and its idols, will I not also do to Jerusalem and her idols?”

Isaiah 10:12

So when the Lord has completed all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria for the fruit of his arrogant heart and the proud look in his eyes.

Isaiah 10:13

For he says: ‘By the strength of my hand I have done this, and by my wisdom, for I am clever. I have removed the boundaries of nations and plundered their treasures; like a mighty one I subdued their rulers.

Isaiah 32:7

The weapons of the scoundrel are destructive; he hatches plots to destroy the poor with lies, even when the plea of the needy is just.

Ezekiel 38:10

This is what the Lord GOD says: On that day, thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.

Ezekiel 38:11

You will say, ‘I will go up against a land of unwalled villages; I will come against a tranquil people who dwell securely, all of them living without walls or bars or gates—

Nahum 1:11

From you, O Nineveh, comes forth a plotter of evil against the LORD, a counselor of wickedness.

Romans 1:30

slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents.