for their hearts plot violence and their lips talk about mischief.
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for their hearts plot violence and their lips talk about mischief.
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For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
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For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
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Passages linked to Proverbs 24:2 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Psalms 7:14 Behold, he travails with iniquity. Yes, he has conceived mischief, and brought out falsehood.
- Psalms 10:7 His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
- Psalms 28:3 Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.
- Job 15:35 They conceive mischief, and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.”
- Isaiah 59:4 No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity, and speak lies. They conceive mischief, and give birth to iniquity.
- 1 Samuel 23:9 David knew that Saul was devising mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod here.”
- Acts 13:10 and said, “You son of the devil, full of all deceit and all cunning, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
- Esther 3:6-7 But he scorned the thought of laying hands on Mordecai alone, for they had made known to him Mordecai’s people. Therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even Mordecai’s people. In the first month, which is the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, and chose the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.
- Psalms 36:4 He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.
- Psalms 64:4-6 to shoot innocent men from ambushes. They shoot at him suddenly and fearlessly. They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, “Who will see them?” They plot injustice, saying, “We have made a perfect plan!” Surely man’s mind and heart are cunning.
- Psalms 140:2 those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war.
- Proverbs 6:14 in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.
- Micah 7:3 Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.
- Matthew 26:3-4 Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas. They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit, and kill him.
- Luke 23:20-21 Then Pilate spoke to them again, wanting to release Jesus, but they shouted, saying, “Crucify! Crucify him!”
- Proverbs 24:8 One who plots to do evil will be called a schemer.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Pro 24:2 For their heart studieth destruction, and their…
Pro 24:2 For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
Ver. 2. For their heart studieth destruction.] Great students they are; wittily wicked; but they consult shame and confusion to them and theirs.
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And their lips talk of mischief.] The mischief that they machinate budgeth and blistereth out at their tongues’ ends. They are even big with it, and not well till delivered.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Studieth destruction; how they may oppress and destroy others,…
Studieth destruction; how they may oppress and destroy others, which yet at last falls upon their own heads.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain For their heart studieth destruction,.... To others; to good…
For their heart studieth destruction,.... To others; to good men, that separate from them, and reprove them, or are in their way; or any ways hinder them in the prosecution of their wicked designs; as Haman's heart studied the destruction of the Jews: or their hearts study to draw men into their destructive methods of living, and therefore should be shunned and avoided. Moreover, their hearts study destruction to themselves; they study what they shall eat and drink, which they pursue to intemperance; and how they shall compass their lewd designs, and which issue in their ruin; destruction and misery are in all the ways they devise and walk in;
and their lips talk of mischief; which they study in their hearts against others; as are their hearts, so are their lips; out of the abundance of the wickedness of their hearts their mouths speak mischievous things; and which, though they design for others, oftentimes fall upon themselves.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Destruction - How they may oppress and destroy others.
Destruction - How they may oppress and destroy others.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain talk . . . mischief--Their expressed purposes are to…
studieth--meditateth.
talk . . . mischief--Their expressed purposes are to do evil.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 2. destruction] Better, violence, or, oppression. Comp. Pro_21:7, where…
2. destruction] Better, violence, or, oppression. Comp. Pro_21:7, where the same Heb. word is rendered robbery, A.V., and violence, R.V.
These Pro_24:1-2, as compared with Pro_3:31-32, and Pro_23:17-18, are an example of the repetition in this Book of the same injunction, supported by a different reason.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain For their heart studieth destruction. The grounds of the…
For their heart studieth destruction. The grounds of the warning arc here given, as in Pro_1:15. "Destruction" (shod); Vulgate, rapinas, "violence" of all kinds, e.g. robbery, murder. Their lips talk of mischief; utter lies and slanders which may injure other people or bring themselves profit. Admiration of such men and intercourse with them must be repugnant to every religious soul. The LXX refers the verse to evil imaginations issuing in evil talk; "For their heart meditates falsehoods, and their lips speak mischiefs (ponouv )."
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Paul E. Kretzmann 1924 · Public Domain v. 2. For their heart studieth destruction, they are…
v. 2. For their heart studieth destruction, they are constantly meditating upon oppression and violence, and their lips talk of mischief, their expressed purpose being to harm others.
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