Psalms 140:2

Psalms 140:2
For their hearts are full of evil designs; and they are ever making ready causes of war.

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1 Samuel 23:9
And it was clear to David that Saul had evil designs against him, and he said to Abiathar the priest, Come here with the ephod.

Esther 3:6
But it was not enough for him to make an attack on Mordecai only; for they had made clear to him who Mordecai's people were; so Haman made it his purpose to put an end to all the Jews, even Mordecai's people, through all the kingdom of Ahasuerus.

Esther 3:7
In the first month, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, from day to day and from month to month they went on looking for a sign given by Pur (that is chance) before Haman, till the sign came out for the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month Adar.

Psalms 28:3
Do not take me away with the sinners and the workers of evil, who say words of peace to their neighbours, but evil is in their hearts.

Luke 23:20
And Pilate again said to them that it was his desire to let Jesus go free.

Luke 23:21
But crying out they said, To the cross with him!

Acts 13:10
O you, who are full of false tricks and evil ways, a son of the Evil One, hating all righteousness, will you for ever be turning people from the right ways of the Lord?

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1 Samuel 23:26
And Saul and his men went on one side of the mountain, and David and his men went on the other: and David's purpose was to get away as quickly as possible, for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men were making a circle round David and his men in order to take them.

2 Chronicles 20:12
O our God, will you not be their judge? for our strength is not equal to this great army which is coming against us; and we are at a loss what to do: but our eyes are on you.

Psalms 17:11
They have made a circle round our steps: their eyes are fixed on us, forcing us down to the earth;

Psalms 22:12
A great herd of oxen is round me: I am shut in by the strong oxen of Bashan.

Psalms 22:16
Dogs have come round me: I am shut in by the band of evil-doers; they made wounds in my hands and feet.

Psalms 118:11
They are round me, yes, they are all about me; but in the name of the Lord I will have them cut down.

Psalms 118:12
They are round me like bees; but they are put out like a fire among thorns; for in the name of the Lord I will have them cut down.

Psalms 118:13
I have been hard pushed by you, so that I might have a fall: but the Lord was my helper.

Psalms 140:6
I have said to the Lord, You are my God: give ear, O Lord, to the voice of my prayer.

Psalms 140:7
O Lord God, the strength of my salvation, you have been a cover over my head in the day of the fight.

Psalms 140:8
O Lord, give not the wrongdoer his desire; give him no help in his evil designs, or he may be uplifted in pride. (Selah.)

2 Corinthians 1:8
For it is our desire that you may not be without knowledge of our trouble which came on us in Asia, that the weight of it was very great, more than our power, so that it seemed that we had no hope even of life:

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2 Samuel 16:21
And Ahithophel said to Absalom, Go in to your father's women who are here looking after his house; then all Israel will have the news that you are hated by your father, and the hands of your supporters will be strong.

2 Samuel 16:22
So they put up the tent for Absalom on the top of the house, and Absalom went in to his father's women before the eyes of all Israel.

2 Samuel 17:1
Then Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me take out twelve thousand men and this very night I will go after David:

2 Samuel 17:2
And I will come up with him when he is tired and feeble, and make him full of fear: and all the people with him will go in flight; and I will make an attack on the king only:

2 Samuel 17:12
Then we will come on him in some place, wherever he may be, falling on him as the dew comes on the earth: and of him and all the men who are with him not one will get away with his life.

2 Samuel 17:13
And if he has gone into some town, then let all Israel take strong cords to that town, and we will have it pulled into the valley, till not one small stone is to be seen there.

2 Samuel 17:14
Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, Hushai's suggestion is better than that of Ahithophel. For it was the purpose of the Lord to make the wise designs of Ahithophel without effect, so that the Lord might send evil on Absalom.

2 Samuel 17:21
Then after the servants had gone away, they came up out of the water-hole and went to give King David the news; and they said, Get up and go quickly over the water, for such and such are Ahithophel's designs against you.

Psalms 17:8
Keep me as the light of your eyes, covering me with the shade of your wings,

Psalms 17:13
Up! Lord, come out against him, make him low, with your sword be my saviour from the evil-doer.

Psalms 59:1
To the chief music-maker; put to At-tashheth. Michtam. Of David. When Saul sent, and they were watching the house, to put him to death. Take me out of the hands of the cruel ones, O my God; keep me safe from those who come up against me.

Psalms 59:2
Take me out of the power of the workers of evil, and keep me safe from the men of blood.

Psalms 59:4
For no sin of mine they go quickly and get themselves ready; be awake and come to my help, and see.

Psalms 71:4
O my God, take me out of the hand of the sinner, out of the hand of the evil and cruel man.

Psalms 71:10
For my haters are waiting secretly for me; and those who are watching for my soul are banded together in their evil designs,

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2 Samuel 22:16
Then the deep beds of the sea were seen, and the bases of the world were uncovered, because of the Lord's wrath, because of the breath of his mouth.

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2 Samuel 22:49
He makes me free from my haters: I am lifted up over those who come up against me: you have made me free from the violent man.

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Psalms 10:7
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and false words: under his tongue are evil purposes and dark thoughts.

Psalms 12:2
Everyone says false words to his neighbour: their tongues are smooth in their talk, and their hearts are full of deceit.

Psalms 12:3
The smooth lips and the tongue of pride will be cut off by the Lord.

Psalms 31:13
False statements against me have come to my ears; fear was on every side: they were talking together against me, designing to take away my life.

Psalms 35:20
For they do not say words of peace; in their deceit they are designing evil things against the quiet ones in the land.

Psalms 41:6
If one comes to see me, deceit is in his heart; he keeps a store of evil, which he makes public in every place.

Psalms 50:19
You have given your mouth to evil, your tongue to words of deceit.

Proverbs 30:14
There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, their strong teeth like knives, for the destruction of the poor from the earth, and of those who are in need from among men.

Isaiah 59:4
No one puts forward an upright cause, or gives a true decision: their hope is in deceit, and their words are false; they are with child with sin, and give birth to evil.

Jeremiah 9:3
Their tongues are bent like a bow to send out false words: they have become strong in the land, but not for good faith: they go on from evil to evil, and they have no knowledge of me, says the Lord.

Daniel 6:5
Then these men said, We will only get a reason for attacking Daniel in connection with the law of his God.

Micah 7:3
Their hands are made ready to do evil; the ruler makes requests for money, and the judge is looking for a reward; and the great man gives decisions at his pleasure, and the right is twisted.

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Psalms 37:32
The sinners are watching the upright man, desiring to put him to death.

Psalms 37:33
The Lord will not give him into their hands, or be against him when he is judged.

Jeremiah 11:18
And the Lord gave me knowledge of it and I saw it: then you made clear to me their doings.

Jeremiah 11:20
But, O Lord of armies, judging in righteousness, testing the thoughts and the heart, let me see your punishment come on them: for I have put my cause before you.

John 16:3
They will do these things to you because they have not had knowledge of the Father or of me.

Romans 3:8
Let us not do evil so that good may come (a statement which we are falsely said by some to have made), because such behaviour will have its right punishment.

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Psalms 36:2
For he takes comfort in the thought that his sin will not be uncovered and hated.

Psalms 41:7
All my haters are talking secretly together against me; they are designing my downfall.

Psalms 52:3
You have more love for evil than for good, for deceit than for works of righteousness. (Selah.)

Psalms 52:4
Destruction is in all your words, O false tongue.

Psalms 120:2
O Lord, be the saviour of my soul from false lips, and from the tongue of deceit.

Jeremiah 9:4
Let everyone keep watch on his neighbour, and put no faith in any brother: for every brother will certainly be tricking his brother, and every neighbour will go about saying evil.

Acts 24:1
And after five days, the high priest, Ananias, came with certain of the rulers, and an expert talker, one Tertullus; and they made a statement to Felix against Paul.

1 Corinthians 4:5
For this reason let there be no judging before the time, till the Lord comes, who will make clear the secret things of the dark, and the designs of the heart; and then will every man have his praise from God.

2 Corinthians 4:2
And we have given up the secret things of shame, not walking in false ways, and not making use of the word of God with deceit; but by the revelation of what is true, as before God, we have the approval of every man's sense of right and wrong.

Ephesians 2:2
In which you were living in the past, after the ways of this present world, doing the pleasure of the lord of the power of the air, the spirit who is now working in those who go against the purpose of God;

James 3:8
But the tongue may not be controlled by man; it is an unresting evil, it is full of the poison of death.

Revelation 12:10
And a great voice in heaven came to my ears, saying, Now is come the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ: because he who says evil against our brothers before our God day and night is forced down.

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Psalms 61:8
So will I make songs in praise of your name for ever, giving to God that which is right day by day.

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Psalms 35:11
False witnesses got up: they put questions to me about crimes of which I had no knowledge.

Psalms 109:1
To the chief music-maker. Of David. A Psalm. God of my praise, let my prayer be answered;

Psalms 109:2
For the mouth of the sinner is open against me in deceit: his tongue has said false things against me.

Matthew 26:60
And they were not able to get it, though a number of false witnesses came.

Matthew 26:61
But later there came two who said, This man said, I am able to give the Temple of God to destruction, and to put it up again in three days.

Matthew 26:62
And the high priest got up and said to him, Have you no answer? what is it which these say against you?

Acts 6:11
Then they got men to say, He has said evil against Moses and against God, in our hearing.

Acts 6:12
And the people, with the rulers and the scribes, were moved against him, and they came and took him before the Sanhedrin,

Acts 6:13
And they got false witnesses who said, This man is for ever saying things against this holy place and against the law:

Acts 24:5
For this man, in our opinion, is a cause of trouble, a maker of attacks on the government among Jews through all the empire, and a chief mover in the society of the Nazarenes:

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Proverbs 3:29
Do not make evil designs against your neighbour, when he is living with you without fear.

Zechariah 7:10
Do not be hard on the widow, or the child without a father, on the man from a strange country, or on the poor; let there be no evil thought in your heart against your brother.

Matthew 15:18
But the things which come out of the mouth come from the heart; and they make a man unclean.

Matthew 15:19
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, the taking of life, broken faith between the married, unclean desires of the flesh, taking of property, false witness, bitter words:

Mark 7:21
Because from inside, from the heart of men, come evil thoughts and unclean pleasures,

Mark 7:22
The taking of goods and of life, broken faith between husband and wife, the desire of wealth, wrongdoing, deceit, sins of the flesh, an evil eye, angry words, pride, foolish acts:

Mark 7:23
All these evil things come from inside, and make the man unclean.

James 1:14
But every man is tested when he is turned out of the right way by the attraction of his desire.

James 1:15
Then when its time comes, desire gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is of full growth, gives birth to death.

1 John 3:15
Anyone who has hate for his brother is a taker of life, and you may be certain that no taker of life has eternal life in him.

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Proverbs 6:16
Six things are hated by the Lord; seven things are disgusting to him:

Proverbs 6:17
Eyes of pride, a false tongue, hands which take life without cause;

Proverbs 6:19
A false witness, breathing out untrue words, and one who lets loose violent acts among brothers.

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Proverbs 11:23
The desire of the upright man is only for good, but wrath is waiting for the evil-doer.

Proverbs 12:2
A good man has grace in the eyes of the Lord; but the man of evil designs gets punishment from him.

Proverbs 14:17
He who is quickly angry will do what is foolish, but the man of good sense will have quiet.

Proverbs 24:8
He whose purposes are bad will be named a man of evil designs.

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Proverbs 12:20
Deceit is in the heart of those whose designs are evil, but for those purposing peace there is joy.

Hosea 7:6
For they have made their hearts ready like an oven, while they are waiting secretly; their wrath is sleeping all night; in the morning it is burning like a flaming fire.

Micah 2:2
They have a desire for fields and take them by force; and for houses and take them away: they are cruel to a man and his family, even to a man and his heritage.

Micah 2:3
For this cause the Lord has said, See, against this family I am purposing an evil from which you will not be able to take your necks away, and you will be weighted down by it; for it is an evil time.

Nahum 1:11
One has gone out from you who is designing evil against the Lord, whose purposes are of no value.

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Hosea 7:15
Though I have given training and strength to their arms, they have evil designs against me.

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Matthew 2:3
And when it came to the ears of Herod the king, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.

Matthew 2:4
And he got together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, questioning them as to where the birth-place of the Christ would be.

Matthew 2:5
And they said to him, In Beth-lehem of Judaea; for so it is said in the writings of the prophet,

Matthew 2:6
You Beth-lehem, in the land of Judah, are not the least among the chiefs of Judah: out of you will come a ruler, who will be the keeper of my people Israel.

Matthew 2:7
Then Herod sent for the wise men privately, and put questions to them about what time the star had been seen.

Matthew 2:8
And he sent them to Beth-lehem and said, Go and make certain where the young child is; and when you have seen him, let me have news of it, so that I may come and give him worship.

Matthew 2:16
Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, was very angry; and he sent out, and put to death all the male children in Beth-lehem and in all the parts round about it, from two years old and under, acting on the knowledge which he had got with care from the wise men.

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Psalms 2:3
Let their chains be broken, and their cords taken from off us.

Matthew 26:57
And those who had made Jesus prisoner took him away to the house of Caiaphas, the high priest, where the scribes and those in authority over the people had come together.

Matthew 27:1
Now when it was morning, all the chief priests and those in authority took thought together with the purpose of putting Jesus to death.

Acts 4:5
And on the day after, the rulers and those in authority and the scribes came together in Jerusalem;

Acts 4:6
And Annas, the high priest, was there, and Caiaphas and John and Alexander, and all the relations of the high priest.

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Isaiah 29:15
Cursed are those who go deep to keep their designs secret from the Lord, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, Who sees us? and who has knowledge of our acts?

Hosea 5:2
They have gone deep in the evil ways of Shittim, but I am the judge of all.

Luke 22:2
And the chief priests and the scribes were looking for a chance to put him to death, but they went in fear of the people.

Luke 22:3
And Satan came into Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve.

Luke 22:4
And he went away and had a discussion with the chief priests and the rulers, about how he might give him up to them.

Luke 22:5
And they were glad, and undertook to give him money.

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Acts 26:9
For I, truly, was of the opinion that it was right for me to do a number of things against the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

Acts 26:10
And this I did in Jerusalem: and numbers of the saints I put in prison, having had authority given to me from the chief priests, and when they were put to death, I gave my decision against them.

Acts 26:11
And I gave them punishment frequently, in all the Synagogues, forcing them to say things against God; and burning with passion against them, I went after them even into far-away towns.

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1 Kings 20:7
Then the king of Israel sent for all the responsible men of the land, and said, Now will you take note and see the evil purpose of this man: he sent for my wives and my children, my silver and my gold, and I did not keep them back.

Proverbs 11:27
He who, with all his heart, goes after what is good is searching for grace; but he who is looking for trouble will get it.

Daniel 11:27
And as for these two kings, their hearts will be fixed on doing evil and they will say false words at one table; but it will come to nothing: for the end will be at the time fixed.

Romans 3:13
Their throat is like an open place of death; with their tongues they have said what is not true: the poison of snakes is under their lips:

Romans 3:14
Whose mouth is full of curses and bitter words:

Romans 3:15
Their feet are quick in running after blood;

Romans 3:16
Destruction and trouble are in their ways;

Romans 3:17
And of the way of peace they have no knowledge:

Romans 3:18
There is no fear of God before their eyes.

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Revelation 20:9
And they went up over the face of the earth, and made a circle about the tents of the saints, and the well loved town: and fire came down out of heaven for their destruction.

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