Isaiah 59:7

Authorized King James Version (1611)

Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts [are] thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction [are] in their paths.

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  • Prov 1:16 : 16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
  • Prov 6:17 : 17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
  • Mark 7:21-22 : 21 ‹For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,› 22 ‹Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:›
  • Rom 3:15-17 : 15 Their feet [are] swift to shed blood: 16 Destruction and misery [are] in their ways: 17 And the way of peace have they not known:
  • Rev 17:6 : 6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
  • Acts 8:20-22 : 20 But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money. 21 Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God. 22 Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.
  • Prov 15:26 : 26 ¶ The thoughts of the wicked [are] an abomination to the LORD: but [the words] of the pure [are] pleasant words.
  • Prov 24:9 : 9 The thought of foolishness [is] sin: and the scorner [is] an abomination to men.
  • Isa 59:3 : 3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
  • Isa 60:18 : 18 Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.
  • Jer 22:17 : 17 But thine eyes and thine heart [are] not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do [it].
  • Lam 4:13 : 13 ¶ For the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,
  • Ezek 9:9 : 9 Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah [is] exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not.
  • Ezek 22:6 : 6 Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood.
  • Matt 23:31-37 : 31 ‹Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.› 32 ‹Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.› 33 [Ye] ‹serpents,› [ye] ‹generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?› 34 ¶ ‹Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and› [some] ‹of them ye shall kill and crucify; and› [some] ‹of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute› [them] ‹from city to city:› 35 ‹That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.› 36 ‹Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.› 37 ‹O Jerusalem, Jerusalem,› [thou] ‹that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under› [her] ‹wings, and ye would not!›

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  • Prov 1:15-18
    4 verses
    88%

    15My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

    16For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

    17Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

    18And they lay wait for their [own] blood; they lurk privily for their [own] lives.

  • Rom 3:15-17
    3 verses
    86%

    15Their feet [are] swift to shed blood:

    16Destruction and misery [are] in their ways:

    17And the way of peace have they not known:

  • 8The way of peace they know not; and [there is] no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.

  • 6Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works [are] works of iniquity, and the act of violence [is] in their hands.

  • Prov 6:17-18
    2 verses
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    17A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

    18An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,

  • Isa 59:3-4
    2 verses
    76%

    3For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.

    4None calleth for justice, nor [any] pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

  • 2Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

  • 2For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.

  • 3That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge [asketh] for a reward; and the great [man], he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.

  • 9¶ The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide [it] not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

  • 1¶ Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.

  • Prov 4:16-17
    2 verses
    74%

    16For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause [some] to fall.

    17For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

  • Prov 2:13-15
    3 verses
    74%

    13Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

    14Who rejoice to do evil, [and] delight in the frowardness of the wicked;

    15Whose ways [are] crooked, and [they] froward in their paths:

  • 11If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

  • Ps 64:5-6
    2 verses
    73%

    5They encourage themselves [in] an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?

    6They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward [thought] of every one [of them], and the heart, [is] deep.

  • 2Which imagine mischiefs in [their] heart; continually are they gathered together [for] war.

  • 21They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

  • Ps 55:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    10Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow [are] in the midst of it.

    11Wickedness [is] in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.

  • 27Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.

  • 2And they consider not in their hearts [that] I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.

  • 17But thine eyes and thine heart [are] not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do [it].

  • 7¶ The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.

  • 8They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.

  • 11For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, [which] they are not able [to perform].

  • 35They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

  • 14They have wandered [as] blind [men] in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.

  • 10Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.

  • 3And they bend their tongues [like] their bow [for] lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.

  • 21But [as for them] whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord GOD.

  • 8Gilead [is] a city of them that work iniquity, [and is] polluted with blood.

  • 29¶ The way of the LORD [is] strength to the upright: but destruction [shall be] to the workers of iniquity.

  • 14The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, [and] to slay such as be of upright conversation.

  • 11There is [one] come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counsellor.

  • 15The heathen are sunk down in the pit [that] they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

  • 2By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.

  • 6They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.

  • 12[For] the sin of their mouth [and] the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying [which] they speak.

  • 5¶ The thoughts of the righteous [are] right: [but] the counsels of the wicked [are] deceit.