Proverbs 3:29

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Proverbs 3:27–31 · Berean Standard Bible

27 Do not withhold good from the deserving when it is within your power to act.

28 Do not tell your neighbor, “Come back tomorrow and I will provide”— when you already have the means.

29 Do not devise evil against your neighbor, for he trustfully dwells beside you.

30 Do not accuse a man without cause, when he has done you no harm.

31 Do not envy a violent man or choose any of his ways;

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

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 16:29

A violent man entices his neighbor and leads him down a path that is not good.

Proverbs 16:30

He who winks his eye devises perversity; he who purses his lips is bent on evil.

Psalms 35:20

For they do not speak peace, but they devise deceitful schemes against those who live quietly in the land.

Psalms 55:20

My companion attacks his friends; he violates his covenant.

Psalms 59:3

See how they lie in wait for me. Fierce men conspire against me for no transgression or sin of my own, O LORD.

Jeremiah 18:18

Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us denounce him and pay no heed to any of his words.”

Jeremiah 18:19

Attend to me, O LORD. Hear what my accusers are saying!

Jeremiah 18:20

Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before You to speak good on their behalf, to turn Your wrath from them.

Micah 2:1

Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.

Micah 2:2

They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance.