Passage cross-references.

He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.

The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.

Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood. …

For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire. …

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

A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth. …

It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.

Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.

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

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

Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.

Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people. …

Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin.

And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.

Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no might in thine hand:

Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man; …

A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.

Now therefore ye with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you to morrow, as though ye would enquire something more perfectly concerning him: and we, or ever he come near, are ready to kill him.

And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king’s laws: therefore it is not for the king’s profit to suffer them.

Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.

But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city:

When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death: …

And straightway in the morning the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him to Pilate.

And the chief priests and the scribes the same hour sought to lay hands on him; and they feared the people: for they perceived that he had spoken this parable against them.