Psalms 58:2
No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.
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Psalms 58:2
No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.
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Genesis 6:11
The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
Genesis 6:12
God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.
Jeremiah 23:10
“For the land is full of adulterers; for because of the curse the land mourns. The pastures of the wilderness have dried up. Their course is evil, and their might is not right;
Habakkuk 1:2
Yahweh, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you “Violence!” and will you not save?
Habakkuk 1:3
Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.
Acts 21:35
When he came to the stairs, he was carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the crowd;
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1 Kings 12:32
Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that is in Judah, and he went up to the altar. He did so in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made, and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made.
Esther 3:6
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.
Esther 3:7
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.
Esther 3:8
Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom, and their laws are different from other people’s. They don’t keep the king’s laws. Therefore it is not for the king’s profit to allow them to remain.
Esther 3:9
If it pleases the king, let it be written that they be destroyed; and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who are in charge of the king’s business, to bring it into the king’s treasuries.”
Daniel 3:4
Then the herald cried aloud, “To you it is commanded, peoples, nations, and languages,
Daniel 3:5
that whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, you fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king has set up.
Daniel 3:6
Whoever doesn’t fall down and worship shall be cast into the middle of a burning fiery furnace the same hour.”
Daniel 3:7
Therefore at that time, when all the peoples heard the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, all the peoples, the nations, and the languages fell down and worshiped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.
Daniel 6:7
All the presidents of the kingdom, the deputies and the local governors, the counselors and the governors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute and to make a strong decree, that whoever asks a petition of any god or man for thirty days, except of you, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.
Revelation 13:15
It was given to him to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause as many as wouldn’t worship the image of the beast to be killed.
Revelation 13:16
He causes all, the small and the great, the rich and the poor, and the free and the slave, to be given marks on their right hands or on their foreheads;
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Job 12:6
The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.
Psalms 12:8
The wicked walk on every side, when what is vile is exalted among the sons of men.
Psalms 99:4
The King’s strength also loves justice. You establish equity. You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.
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Psalms 17:2
Let my sentence come out of your presence. Let your eyes look on equity.
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Psalms 58:9
Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.
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Psalms 62:4
They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.
Proverbs 23:31
Don’t look at the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.
Isaiah 32:6
For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice profanity, and to utter error against Yahweh, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
Daniel 9:12
He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us and against our judges who judged us, by bringing on us a great evil; for under the whole sky, such has not been done as has been done to Jerusalem.
Hosea 7:7
They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges. All their kings have fallen. There is no one among them who calls to me.
Acts 5:3
But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back part of the price of the land?
James 1:14
But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed.
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Psalms 78:50
He made a path for his anger. He didn’t spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence,
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Psalms 82:5
They don’t know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
Psalms 82:6
I said, “You are gods, all of you are sons of the Most High.
Psalms 82:7
Nevertheless you shall die like men, and fall like one of the rulers.”
Ecclesiastes 5:8
If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter, for one official is eyed by a higher one, and there are officials over them.
Amos 4:7
“I also have withheld the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain on one city, and caused it not to rain on another city. One field was rained on, and the field where it didn’t rain withered.
John 19:13
When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called “The Pavement”, but in Hebrew, “Gabbatha.”
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Psalms 119:85
The proud have dug pits for me, contrary to your law.
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Psalms 119:87
They had almost wiped me from the earth, but I didn’t forsake your precepts.
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2 Samuel 13:26
Then Absalom said, “If not, please let my brother Amnon go with us.” The king said to him, “Why should he go with you?”
Psalms 12:2
Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.
Psalms 52:1
Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God’s loving kindness endures continually.
Proverbs 12:20
Deceit is in the heart of those who plot evil, but joy comes to the promoters of peace.
Proverbs 23:6
Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don’t crave his delicacies,
Proverbs 23:7
for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.
Proverbs 23:8
You will vomit up the morsel which you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.
Proverbs 26:23
Like silver dross on an earthen vessel are the lips of a fervent one with an evil heart.
Daniel 11:27
As for both these kings, their hearts will be to do evil, and they will speak lies at one table; but it won’t prosper, for the end will still be at the appointed time.
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Proverbs 23:16
Yes, my heart will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.
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Song of Solomon 1:2
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; for your love is better than wine.
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Psalms 11:2
For, behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrows on the strings, that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.
Psalms 21:11
For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.
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.
Isaiah 59:5
They hatch adders’ eggs and weave the spider’s web. He who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.
Isaiah 59:6
Their webs won’t become garments. They won’t cover themselves with their works. Their works are works of iniquity, and acts of violence are in their hands.
Isaiah 59:8
They don’t know the way of peace; and there is no justice in their ways. They have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever goes in them doesn’t know peace.
Jeremiah 22:16
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; so then it was well. Wasn’t this to know me?” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 22:17
But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”
Micah 2:2
They covet fields and seize them, and houses, then take them away. They oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
Micah 3:4
Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil.”
John 11:47
The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, “What are we doing? For this man does many signs.
John 11:48
If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”
John 11:50
nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.”
John 11:52
and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.
John 11:57
Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had commanded that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, that they might seize him.
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Exodus 23:6
“You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.
Exodus 23:7
“Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous; for I will not justify the wicked.
Leviticus 19:15
“ ‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.
Deuteronomy 16:18
You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
Deuteronomy 16:19
You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.
Deuteronomy 27:19
‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
1 Kings 21:13
The two men, the wicked fellows, came in and sat before him. The wicked fellows testified against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king!” Then they carried him out of the city and stoned him to death with stones.
Isaiah 1:23
Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.
Isaiah 5:23
who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!
Isaiah 11:4
but he will judge the poor with righteousness, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.
Jeremiah 5:28
They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t defend the rights of the needy.
Ezekiel 22:12
In you have they taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me,” says the Lord Yahweh.
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Jeremiah 19:15
“Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says, ‘Behold, I will bring on this city and on all its towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have made their neck stiff, that they may not hear my words.’ ”
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Daniel 5:27
TEKEL: you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.
Revelation 6:5
When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, “Come and see!” And behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a balance in his hand.
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1 Samuel 16:7
But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”
Amos 6:12
Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness,
Romans 2:1
Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.
1 Corinthians 2:15
But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is to be judged by no one.
1 Corinthians 4:3
But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by a human court. Yes, I don’t even judge my own self.
1 Corinthians 4:4
For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.
1 Corinthians 4:5
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.
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Psalms 5:9
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.
Psalms 51:6
Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.
Jeremiah 4:14
Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?
Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?
Hosea 7:6
For they have prepared their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait. Their anger smolders all night. In the morning it burns as a flaming fire.
Mark 7:21
For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,
Mark 7:22
covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.
Luke 11:39
The Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.
Acts 5:4
While you kept it, didn’t it remain your own? After it was sold, wasn’t it in your power? How is it that you have conceived this thing in your heart? You haven’t lied to men, but to God.”
Acts 8:21
You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart isn’t right before God.
Acts 8:22
Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.
James 1:15
Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin. The sin, when it is full grown, produces death.
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John 11:49
But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all,
John 11:51
Now he didn’t say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,
John 11:53
So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death.
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Proverbs 28:1
The wicked flee when no one pursues; but the righteous are as bold as a lion.
Acts 16:20
When they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, “These men, being Jews, are agitating our city
Acts 16:21
and advocate customs which it is not lawful for us to accept or to observe, being Romans.”
Acts 16:22
The multitude rose up together against them and the magistrates tore their clothes from them, then commanded them to be beaten with rods.
Acts 16:23
When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely.
Acts 16:24
Having received such a command, he threw them into the inner prison and secured their feet in the stocks.
Acts 16:37
But Paul said to them, “They have beaten us publicly without a trial, men who are Romans, and have cast us into prison! Do they now release us secretly? No, most certainly, but let them come themselves and bring us out!”
Acts 22:25
When they had tied him up with thongs, Paul asked the centurion who stood by, “Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman, and not found guilty?”
Acts 22:26
When the centurion heard it, he went to the commanding officer and told him, “Watch what you are about to do, for this man is a Roman!”
Acts 22:27
The commanding officer came and asked him, “Tell me, are you a Roman?” He said, “Yes.”
Acts 22:28
The commanding officer answered, “I bought my citizenship for a great price.” Paul said, “But I was born a Roman.”
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Leviticus 19:35
“ ‘You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.
Leviticus 26:15
and if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant,
Deuteronomy 1:16
I commanded your judges at that time, saying, “Hear cases between your brothers and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him.
Psalms 72:14
He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. Their blood will be precious in his sight.
Proverbs 24:23
These also are sayings of the wise: To show partiality in judgment is not good.
Isaiah 11:3
His delight will be in the fear of Yahweh. He will not judge by the sight of his eyes, neither decide by the hearing of his ears;
Ezekiel 22:27
Her princes within it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood and to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.
Micah 3:8
But as for me, I am full of power by Yahweh’s Spirit, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his disobedience, and to Israel his sin.
Acts 23:3
Then Paul said to him, “God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! Do you sit to judge me according to the law, and command me to be struck contrary to the law?”
1 Timothy 5:21
I command you in the sight of God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.
James 2:1
My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with partiality.
James 2:9
But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.
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Esther 3:13
Letters were sent by couriers into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to plunder their possessions.
John 19:6
When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they shouted, saying, “Crucify! Crucify!” Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him.”
Revelation 13:17
and that no one would be able to buy or to sell unless he has that mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.
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