Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.
For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
Proverbs 24:8 He that devises to do evil shall be called a mischievous person.
Proverbs 6:14 Frowardness is in his heart, he devises mischief continually; he sows discord.
1 Samuel 23:9 And David knew that Saul secretly practiced mischief against him; …
Esther 3:6,7 And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had …
Job 15:35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepares deceit.
Psalm 7:14 Behold, he travails with iniquity, and has conceived mischief, and …
Psalm 10:7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue …
Psalm 28:3 Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, …
Psalm 36:4 He devises mischief on his bed; he sets himself in a way that is …
Psalm 64:4-6 That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot …
Psalm 140:2 Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered …
Isaiah 59:4 None calls for justice, nor any pleads for truth: they trust in vanity, …
Micah 7:3 That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asks, …
Matthew 26:3,4 Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the …
Luke 23:20-21 Pilate therefore, willing to release Jesus, spoke again to them…
Acts 13:10 And said, O full of all subtlety and all mischief, you child of the …
Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established:
And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches.
A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.
For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellers there is safety.
by
Proverbs 20:18 Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.
Luke 14:31 Or what king, going to make war against another king, sits not down first…
1 Corinthians 9:25-27 And every man that strives for the mastery is temperate in all things. …
Ephesians 6:10 Finally, my brothers, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
1 Timothy 6:11,12 But you, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, …
2 Timothy 4:7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
and
Proverbs 11:14 Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors …
Proverbs 15:22 Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of …
Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.
too
Proverbs 14:6 A scorner seeks wisdom, and finds it not: but knowledge is easy to …
Proverbs 15:24 The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.
Proverbs 17:24 Wisdom is before him that has understanding; but the eyes of a fool …
Psalm 10:5 His ways are always grievous; your judgments are far above out of …
Psalm 92:5,6 O LORD, how great are your works! and your thoughts are very deep…
1 Corinthians 2:14 But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: …
openeth
Proverbs 22:22 Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
Proverbs 31:8,9 Open your mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed …
Job 29:7 When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my …
Job 31:21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my …
Isaiah 29:21 That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that …
Amos 5:10,12,15 They hate him that rebukes in the gate, and they abhor him that speaks …
He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person.
Proverbs 24:2,9 For their heart studies destruction, and their lips talk of mischief…
Proverbs 6:14,18 Frowardness is in his heart, he devises mischief continually; he sows discord…
Proverbs 14:22 Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to …
1 Kings 2:44 The king said moreover to Shimei, You know all the wickedness which …
Psalm 21:11 For they intended evil against you: they imagined a mischievous device, …
Psalm 10:7-13 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue …
Ezekiel 38:10,11 Thus said the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same …
Nahum 1:11 There is one come out of you, that imagines evil against the LORD, …
Romans 1:30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors …
The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men.
thought
Proverbs 24:8 He that devises to do evil shall be called a mischievous person.
Proverbs 23:7 For as he thinks in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, said he to …
Genesis 6:5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth…
Genesis 8:21 And the LORD smelled a sweet smell; and the LORD said in his heart, …
Psalm 119:113 I hate vain thoughts: but your law do I love.
Isaiah 55:7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: …
Jeremiah 4:14 O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. …
Matthew 5:28 But I say to you, That whoever looks on a woman to lust after her …
Matthew 9:4 And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Why think you evil in your hearts?
Matthew 15:19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, …
Acts 8:22 Repent therefore of this your wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps …
2 Corinthians 10:5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself …
the scorner
Proverbs 22:10 Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yes, strife and …
Proverbs 29:8 Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath.
If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.
thou
1 Samuel 27:1 And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul…
Job 4:5 But now it is come on you, and you faint; it touches you, and you are troubled.
Isaiah 40:28-31 Have you not known? have you not heard, that the everlasting God, …
John 4:8 (For his disciples were gone away to the city to buy meat.)
2 Corinthians 4:1 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
Ephesians 3:13 Why I desire that you faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.
Hebrews 12:3-5 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against …
Revelation 2:3,13 And have borne, and have patience, and for my name's sake have labored, …
small
If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain;
1 Samuel 26:8,9 Then said Abishai to David, God has delivered your enemy into your …
Job 29:17 And I broke the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
Psalm 82:4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
Isaiah 58:6,7 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, …
Luke 10:31,32 And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when …
Luke 23:23-25 And they were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified…
Acts 18:17 Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, …
Acts 21:31,32 And as they went about to kill him, tidings came to the chief captain …
Acts 23:10,23 And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing …
1 John 3:16,17 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life …
If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?
doth he not
Proverbs 5:21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he ponders …
Proverbs 21:2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD ponders the hearts.
1 Samuel 16:7 But the LORD said to Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the …
Psalm 7:9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish …
Psalm 17:3 You have proved my heart; you have visited me in the night; you have …
Psalm 44:21 Shall not God search this out? for he knows the secrets of the heart.
Ecclesiastes 5:8 If you see the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of …
Jeremiah 17:10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every …
Romans 2:16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ …
1 Corinthians 4:5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who …
Hebrews 4:12,13 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any …
Revelation 2:18,23 And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things said …
that keepeth
1 Samuel 2:6 The LORD kills, and makes alive: he brings down to the grave, and brings up.
1 Samuel 25:29 Yet a man is risen to pursue you, and to seek your soul…
Psalm 66:9 Which holds our soul in life, and suffers not our feet to be moved.
Psalm 121:3,8 He will not suffer your foot to be moved: he that keeps you will not slumber…
Daniel 5:23 But have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they …
Acts 17:28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also …
Revelation 1:18 I am he that lives, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for ever …
and shall
Job 34:11 For the work of a man shall he render to him, and cause every man …
Psalm 62:12 Also to you, O Lord, belongs mercy: for you render to every man according …
Jeremiah 32:19 Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for your eyes are open on all …
Matthew 16:27 For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his …
Romans 2:6 Who will render to every man according to his deeds:
2 Corinthians 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every …
Revelation 2:23 And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall …
Revelation 20:12-15 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books …
Revelation 22:12 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every …
My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste:
So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off.
shall be
Proverbs 22:18 For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you; they shall …
Psalm 19:10,11 More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine gold: …
Psalm 119:103,111 How sweet are your words to my taste! yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth!…
Jeremiah 15:16 Your words were found, and I did eat them; and your word was to me …
when
Proverbs 2:1-5,10 My son, if you will receive my words, and hide my commandments with you…
Proverbs 3:13-18 Happy is the man that finds wisdom, and the man that gets understanding…
there
Proverbs 23:18 For surely there is an end; and your expectation shall not be cut off.
Matthew 19:21 Jesus said to him, If you will be perfect, go and sell that you have, …
James 1:25 But whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty, and continues …
Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:
lay
Proverbs 1:11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk …
1 Samuel 9:11 And as they went up the hill to the city, they found young maidens …
1 Samuel 22:18,19 And the king said to Doeg, Turn you, and fall on the priests. And …
1 Samuel 23:20-23 Now therefore, O king, come down according to all the desire of your …
Psalm 10:8-10 He sits in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places …
Psalm 37:32 The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to slay him.
Psalm 56:6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark …
Psalm 59:3 For, see, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against …
Psalm 140:5 The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a …
Jeremiah 11:19 But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; …
Matthew 26:4 And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtlety, and kill him.
Acts 9:24 But their laying await was known of Saul. And they watched the gates …
Acts 23:16 And when Paul's sister's son heard of their lying in wait, he went …
Acts 25:3 And desired favor against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, …
spoil
Proverbs 22:28 Remove not the ancient landmark, which your fathers have set.
Isaiah 32:18 And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure …
For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.
a just
Job 5:19 He shall deliver you in six troubles: yes, in seven there shall no …
Psalm 34:19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivers …
Psalm 37:24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholds …
Micah 7:8-10 Rejoice not against me, O my enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when …
2 Corinthians 1:8-10 For we would not, brothers, have you ignorant of our trouble which …
2 Corinthians 4:8-12 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, …
2 Corinthians 11:23-27 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labors …
but
Proverbs 13:17 A wicked messenger falls into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.
Proverbs 28:14-18 Happy is the man that fears always: but he that hardens his heart …
1 Samuel 26:10 David said furthermore, As the LORD lives, the LORD shall smite him; …
1 Samuel 31:4 Then said Saul to his armor bearer, Draw your sword, and thrust me …
Esther 7:10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. …
Psalm 7:16 His mischief shall return on his own head, and his violent dealing …
Psalm 52:5 God shall likewise destroy you for ever, he shall take you away, …
Amos 5:2 The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken …
Amos 8:14 They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Your god, O Dan, …
Acts 12:23 And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave …
1 Thessalonians 5:3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction …
Revelation 18:20,21 Rejoice over her, you heaven, and you holy apostles and prophets; …
Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:
Proverbs 17:5 Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker: and he that is glad …
Judges 16:25 And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, …
2 Samuel 16:5 And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, there came out a man …
Job 31:29 If I rejoice at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up …
Psalm 35:15,19 But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: …
Psalm 42:10 As with a sword in my bones, my enemies reproach me; while they say …
Obadiah 1:12 But you should not have looked on the day of your brother in the …
1 Corinthians 13:6,7 Rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth…
Lest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.
Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the wicked;
fret not or keep not company with the wicked
Proverbs 13:20 He that walks with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools …
Numbers 16:26 And he spoke to the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from …
Psalm 1:1 Blessed is the man that walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, …
Psalm 26:4,5 I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers…
Psalm 119:115 Depart from me, you evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God.
2 Corinthians 6:17 Why come out from among them, and be you separate, said the Lord, …
Ephesians 5:11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but …
2 Timothy 3:2-5 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, …
Revelation 18:4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my …
neither
Proverbs 24:1 Be not you envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.
Proverbs 23:17 Let not your heart envy sinners: but be you in the fear of the LORD …
Psalm 37:1 Fret not yourself because of evildoers, neither be you envious against …
Psalm 73:3 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out.
Psalm 9:17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.
Psalm 11:6 On the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible …
Isaiah 3:11 Woe to the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his …
candle
Proverbs 13:9 The light of the righteous rejoices: but the lamp of the wicked shall …
Proverbs 20:20 Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out …
Job 18:5,6 Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his …
Job 21:17 How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft comes their …
Matthew 8:12 But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: …
Matthew 25:8 And the foolish said to the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps …
Jude 1:13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, …
My son, fear thou the LORD and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change:
fear
Exodus 14:31 And Israel saw that great work which the LORD did on the Egyptians: …
1 Samuel 24:6 And he said to his men, The LORD forbid that I should do this thing …
Ecclesiastes 8:2-5 I counsel you to keep the king's commandment, and that in regard …
Matthew 22:21 They say to him, Caesar's. Then said he to them, Render therefore …
Romans 13:1-7 Let every soul be subject to the higher powers. For there is no power …
Titus 3:1 Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey …
1 Peter 2:13-17 Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: …
meddle
Numbers 16:1-3 Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, …
1 Samuel 8:5-7 And said to him, Behold, you are old, and your sons walk not in your …
1 Samuel 12:12-19 And when you saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came …
2 Samuel 15:13 And there came a messenger to David, saying, The hearts of the men …
1 Kings 12:16 So when all Israel saw that the king listened not to them, the people …
given to change
For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of them both?
These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.
things
Psalm 107:43 Whoever is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand …
Ecclesiastes 8:1-5 Who is as the wise man? and who knows the interpretation of a thing? …
Hosea 14:9 Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he …
James 3:17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, …
it
Proverbs 18:5 It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the …
Proverbs 28:21 To have respect of persons is not good: for for a piece of bread …
Leviticus 19:15 You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: you shall not respect …
Deuteronomy 1:17 You shall not respect persons in judgment; but you shall hear the …
Deuteronomy 16:19 You shall not wrest judgment; you shall not respect persons, neither …
2 Chronicles 19:7 Why now let the fear of the LORD be on you; take heed and do it: …
Psalm 82:2-4 How long will you judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah…
John 7:24 Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
1 Timothy 5:20,21 Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear…
James 2:4-6 Are you not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of …
1 Peter 1:17 And if you call on the Father, who without respect of persons judges …
He that saith unto the wicked, Thou art righteous; him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor him:
that
Proverbs 17:15 He that justifies the wicked, and he that comdemns the just, even …
Exodus 23:6,7 You shall not wrest the judgment of your poor in his cause…
Isaiah 5:20,23 Woe to them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness …
Jeremiah 6:13,14 For from the least of them even to the greatest of them every one …
Jeremiah 8:10,11 Therefore will I give their wives to others, and their fields to …
Ezekiel 13:22 Because with lies you have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom …
him shall
Proverbs 11:26 He that withholds corn, the people shall curse him: but blessing …
Proverbs 28:27 He that gives to the poor shall not lack: but he that hides his eyes …
Proverbs 30:10 Accuse not a servant to his master, lest he curse you, and you be found guilty.
Isaiah 66:24 And they shall go forth, and look on the carcasses of the men that …
But to them that rebuke him shall be delight, and a good blessing shall come upon them.
them
Leviticus 19:17 You shall not hate your brother in your heart: you shall in any wise …
1 Samuel 3:13 For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the …
1 Kings 21:19,20 And you shall speak to him, saying, Thus said the LORD, Have you …
Nehemiah 5:7-9 Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, …
Nehemiah 13:8-11 And it grieved me sore: therefore I cast forth all the household …
Job 29:16-18 I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out…
Matthew 14:4 For John said to him, It is not lawful for you to have her.
1 Timothy 5:20 Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.
2 Timothy 4:2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, …
Titus 1:13 This witness is true. Why rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound …
Titus 2:15 These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let …
a good blessing
Proverbs 28:23 He that rebukes a man afterwards shall find more favor than he that …
Every man shall kiss his lips that giveth a right answer.
Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house.
Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.
not
Proverbs 14:5 A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.
Proverbs 19:5,9 A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaks lies …
Proverbs 21:28 A false witness shall perish: but the man that hears speaks constantly.
Exodus 20:16 You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
Exodus 23:1 You shall not raise a false report: put not your hand with the wicked …
1 Samuel 22:9,10 Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set over the servants of …
1 Kings 21:9-13 And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth …
Job 2:3 And the LORD said to Satan, Have you considered my servant Job, that …
Psalm 35:7,11 For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which …
Matthew 26:59,60 Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false …
Matthew 27:23 And the governor said, Why, what evil has he done? But they cried …
John 15:25 But this comes to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is …
deceive
Ephesians 4:25 Why putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor: …
Colossians 3:9 Lie not one to another, seeing that you have put off the old man …
Revelation 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, …
Revelation 22:15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and fornicators, and murderers, …
Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me: I will render to the man according to his work.
I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;
went
Proverbs 6:6 Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
Job 4:8 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
Job 5:27 See this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know you it for your good.
Job 15:17 I will show you, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;
Psalm 37:25 I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous …
Psalm 107:42 The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.
Ecclesiastes 4:1-8 So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under …
Ecclesiastes 7:15 All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just …
Ecclesiastes 8:9-11 All this have I seen, and applied my heart to every work that is …
void
Proverbs 10:13 In the lips of him that has understanding wisdom is found: but a …
Proverbs 12:11 He that tills his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that …
And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Then I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and received instruction.
considered it or set my heart
Job 7:17 What is man, that you should magnify him? and that you should set …
Psalm 4:4 Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart on your bed, …
Luke 2:19,51 But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart…
i looked
Deuteronomy 13:11 And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such …
Deuteronomy 21:21 And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he …
Deuteronomy 32:29 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would …
1 Corinthians 10:6,11 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust …
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.