Proverbs 2:14

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who delight in doing evil, they rejoice in perverse evil;

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 10:23 : 23 Carrying out a wicked scheme is enjoyable to a fool, and so is wisdom for the one who has discernment.
  • Jer 11:15 : 15 The LORD says to the people of Judah,“What right do you have to be in my temple, my beloved people? Many of you have done wicked things. Can your acts of treachery be so easily canceled by sacred offerings that you take joy in doing evil even while you make them?
  • Rom 1:32 : 32 Although they fully know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but also approve of those who practice them.
  • 1 Cor 13:6 : 6 It is not glad about injustice, but rejoices in the truth.
  • Hos 7:3 : 3 Political Intrigue and Conspiracy in the Palace The royal advisers delight the king with their evil schemes, the princes make him glad with their lies.
  • Hab 1:15 : 15 The Babylonian tyrant pulls them all up with a fishhook; he hauls them in with his throw net. When he catches them in his dragnet, he is very happy.
  • Zeph 3:11 : 11 In that day you will not be ashamed of all your rebelliousness against me, for then I will remove from your midst those who proudly boast, and you will never again be arrogant on my holy hill.
  • Luke 22:4-5 : 4 He went away and discussed with the chief priests and officers of the temple guard how he might betray Jesus, handing him over to them. 5 They were delighted and arranged to give him money.

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  • Prov 2:15
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    15whose paths are morally crooked, and who are devious in their ways;

  • Prov 2:12-13
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    12to deliver you from the way of the wicked, from those speaking perversity,

    13who leave the upright paths to walk on the dark ways,

  • Prov 11:20
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    20The LORD abhors those who are perverse in heart, but those who are blameless in their ways are his delight.

  • Prov 6:14
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    14he plots evil with perverse thoughts in his heart, he spreads contention at all times.

  • Hos 7:3
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    3Political Intrigue and Conspiracy in the Palace The royal advisers delight the king with their evil schemes, the princes make him glad with their lies.

  • Prov 1:16
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    16for they are eager to inflict harm, and they hasten to shed blood.

  • Job 34:8
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    8He goes about in company with evildoers, he goes along with wicked men.

  • Ps 64:5
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    5They encourage one another to carry out their evil deed. They plan how to hide snares, and boast,“Who will see them?”

  • Mic 7:3
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    3They are experts at doing evil; government officials and judges take bribes, prominent men announce what they wish and then they plan it out.

  • Prov 29:6
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    6In the transgression of an evil person there is a snare, but a righteous person can sing and rejoice.

  • Ps 10:3
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    3Yes, the wicked man boasts because he gets what he wants; the one who robs others curses and rejects the LORD.

  • Prov 24:2
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    2for their hearts contemplate violence, and their lips speak harm.

  • Mic 2:1
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    1Land Robbers Will Lose Their Land Beware wicked schemers, those who devise calamity as they lie in bed. As soon as morning dawns they carry out their plans, because they have the power to do so.

  • Prov 24:8
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    8The one who plans to do evil will be called a scheming person.

  • Prov 21:15
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    15Doing justice brings joy to the righteous and terror to those who do evil.

  • Prov 12:20
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    20Deceit is in the heart of those who plot evil, but those who promote peace have joy.

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    13suffering harm as the wages for their harmful ways. By considering it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight, they are stains and blemishes, indulging in their deceitful pleasures when they feast together with you.

    14Their eyes, full of adultery, never stop sinning; they entice unstable people. They have trained their hearts for greed, these cursed children!

  • Prov 14:19
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    19Bad people have bowed before good people, and wicked people have bowed at the gates of someone righteous.

  • Ps 140:2
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    2who plan ways to harm me. All day long they stir up conflict.

  • Ps 36:4
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    4He plans ways to sin while he lies in bed; he is committed to a sinful lifestyle; he does not reject what is evil.

  • Prov 17:20
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    20The one who has a perverse heart does not find good, and the one who is deceitful in speech falls into trouble.

  • Rom 1:29-30
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    29They are filled with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice. They are rife with envy, murder, strife, deceit, hostility. They are gossips,

    30slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, contrivers of all sorts of evil, disobedient to parents,

  • Mic 3:2
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    2yet you hate what is good, and love what is evil. You flay my people’s skin and rip the flesh from their bones.

  • Rom 3:14-16
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    14“Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”

    15“Their feet are swift to shed blood,

    16ruin and misery are in their paths,

  • Isa 5:20
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    20Beware, those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness into light and light into darkness, who turn bitter into sweet and sweet into bitter.

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    16But as it is, you boast about your arrogant plans. All such boasting is evil.

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    32for one who goes astray is an abomination to the LORD, but he reveals his intimate counsel to the upright.

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    7The violence done by the wicked will drag them away because they have refused to do what is right.

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    12A worthless and wicked person walks around saying perverse things;

  • Prov 6:18
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    18a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that are swift to run to evil,

  • Job 15:35
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    35They conceive trouble and bring forth evil; their belly prepares deception.”

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    7They are eager to do evil, quick to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful; they crush and destroy.

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    15So now we consider the arrogant to be happy; indeed, those who practice evil are successful. In fact, those who challenge God escape!’”

  • Ps 11:2
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    2For look, the wicked prepare their bows, they put their arrows on the strings, to shoot in the darkness at the morally upright.

  • Isa 31:2
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    2Yet he too is wise and he will bring disaster; he does not retract his decree. He will attack the wicked nation, and the nation that helps those who commit sin.

  • Prov 28:4
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    4Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law contend with them.

  • Prov 4:16-17
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    16For they cannot sleep unless they cause harm; they are robbed of sleep until they make someone stumble.

    17Indeed they have eaten bread gained from wickedness and drink wine obtained from violence.

  • Job 24:13
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    13There are those who rebel against the light; they do not know its ways and they do not stay on its paths.

  • Ps 37:14
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    14Evil men draw their swords and prepare their bows, to bring down the oppressed and needy, and to slaughter those who are godly.

  • Job 22:19
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    19The righteous see their destruction and rejoice; the innocent mock them scornfully, saying,

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    6The righteousness of the upright will deliver them, but the treacherous will be ensnared by their own desires.

  • Prov 16:30
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    30The one who winks his eyes devises perverse things, and one who compresses his lips has accomplished evil.

  • Isa 3:9
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    9The look on their faces testifies to their guilt; like the people of Sodom they openly boast of their sin. Woe to them! For they bring disaster on themselves.

  • Rom 1:32
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    32Although they fully know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but also approve of those who practice them.