Psalms 36:4
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Even on his bed he plots wickedness; he sets himself on a path that is not good; he fails to reject evil.”
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“Even on his bed he plots wickedness; he sets himself on a path that is not good; he fails to reject evil.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.”
King James Version · Public Domain“He deviseth iniquity upon his bed; He setteth himself in a way that is not good; He abhorreth not evil.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Iniquity he deviseth on his bed, He stationeth himself on a way not good, Evil he doth not refuse.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Psalms 36:4 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Samuel 19:11Then Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him and kill him in the morning. But David’s wife Michal warned him, “If you do not run for your life tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!”
- Esther 5:14His wife Zeresh and all his friends told him, “Have them build a gallows fifty cubits high, and ask the king in the morning to have Mordecai hanged on it. Then go to the banquet with the king and enjoy yourself.” The advice pleased Haman, and he had the gallows constructed.
- Esther 6:4“Who is in the court?” the king asked. Now Haman had just entered the outer court of the palace to ask the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows he had prepared for him.
- Job 15:16how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?
- Psalms 38:12Those who seek my life lay snares; those who wish me harm speak destruction, plotting deceit all day long.
- Psalms 52:3You love evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking truth. Selah
- Psalms 97:10Hate evil, O you who love the LORD! He preserves the souls of His saints; He delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
- Proverbs 4:16For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.
- Proverbs 24:2for their hearts devise violence, and their lips declare trouble.
- Proverbs 24:23These also are sayings of the wise: To show partiality in judgment is not good.
- Isaiah 65:2All day long I have held out My hands to an obstinate people who walk in the wrong path, who follow their own imaginations,
- Jeremiah 4:22“For My people are fools; they have not known Me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they know not how to do good.”
- Jeremiah 6:16This is what the LORD says: “Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths: ‘Where is the good way?’ Then walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it!’
- Jeremiah 8:6I have listened and heard; they do not speak what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, asking, ‘What have I done?’ Everyone has pursued his own course like a horse charging into battle.
- Jeremiah 9:2If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people.
- Hosea 7:6For they prepare their heart like an oven while they lie in wait; all night their anger smolders; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
- Amos 5:15Hate evil and love good; establish justice in the gate. Perhaps the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”
- Micah 2:1Woe 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 6:8He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
- Matthew 27:1When morning came, all the chief priests and elders of the people conspired against Jesus to put Him to death.
- Acts 23:12When daylight came, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they had killed Paul.
- Romans 1:32Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things are worthy of death, they not only continue to do these things, but also approve of those who practice them.
- Romans 12:9Love must be sincere. Detest what is evil; cling to what is good.
- Revelation 2:2I know your deeds, your labor, and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate those who are evil, and you have tested and exposed as liars those who falsely claim to be apostles.
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