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Zechariah 8:17

Do not plot evil in your hearts against your neighbor, and do not love perjury, for I hate all this”—this is the Lord’s declaration.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Commandments;   Gentiles;   Malice;   Neighbor;   Perjury;   Sin;   Thompson Chain Reference - Error;   Sin;   Sin-Saviour;   Transgression;   The Topic Concordance - Deeds;   Hate;   Heart;   Love;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Oaths;   Swearing Falsely;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Hate, Hatred;   Lie, Lying;   Word;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Remnant;   Zechariah, Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Zion;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Imagine;   Intercession;   Neighbor;   Oath;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ethics;   Hatred;   Judaism;   Lying;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for February 21;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate," says the LORD.
King James Version (1611)
And let none of you imagine euill in your hearts against his neighbour, and loue no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the Lord.
King James Version
And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the Lord .
English Standard Version
do not devise evil in your hearts against one another, and love no false oath, for all these things I hate, declares the Lord ."
New American Standard Bible
'Also let none of you devise evil in your heart against another, and do not love perjury; for all these things are what I hate,' declares the LORD."
New Century Version
Do not make plans to hurt your neighbors, and don't love false promises. I hate all these things," says the Lord .
Amplified Bible
'And let none of you devise or even imagine evil in your heart against another, and do not love lying or half-truths; for all these things I hate,' declares the LORD."
Geneva Bible (1587)
And let none of you imagine euill in your hearts against his neighbour, and loue no false othe: for all these are the things that I hate, saith the Lorde.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'Also let none of you devise evil in your heart against another, and do not love perjury; for all these are what I hate,' declares the LORD."
Legacy Standard Bible
Also let none of you devise evil in your heart against another, and do not love false oaths; for all these are what I hate,' declares Yahweh."
Berean Standard Bible
do not plot evil in your hearts against your neighbor, and do not love perjury, for I hate all these things," declares the LORD.
Contemporary English Version
Don't ever plan evil things against others or tell lies under oath. I, the Lord , hate such things.
Complete Jewish Bible
don't plot harm against each other; and don't love perjury; for all these are things I hate,' says Adonai ."
Darby Translation
and let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are [things] that I hate, saith Jehovah.
Easy-to-Read Version
Don't make secret plans to hurt your neighbors. Don't make false promises. You must not enjoy doing these things, because I hate them!" This is what the Lord said.
George Lamsa Translation
And let none of you devise evil in your heart against his neighbor; and love no false oaths; for all these are things that I hate, says the LORD of hosts.
Good News Translation
Do not plan ways of harming one another. Do not give false testimony under oath. I hate lying, injustice, and violence."
Lexham English Bible
Do not devise evil in your hearts against your neighbor, and do not love a false oath, because all these are things I hate," declares Yahweh.
Literal Translation
and let each devise no evil in your heart against his neighbor, and do not love a false oath. For all these I hate, says Jehovah.
American Standard Version
and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith Jehovah.
Bible in Basic English
Let no one have any evil thought in his heart against his neighbour; and have no love for false oaths: for all these things are hated by me, says the Lord.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath; for all these are things that I hate, saith the LORD.'
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And let none of you imagine euil in his heart against his neighbour, and loue no false othes: for all these are ye thinges that I hate, saith the Lorde.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and let none of you devise evil in his heart against his neighbour; and love not a false oath: for all these things I hate, saith the Lord Almighty.
English Revised Version
and let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the LORD.
World English Bible
and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate," says Yahweh.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and thenke ye not in youre hertis, ony man yuel ayens his frend, and loue ye not a fals ooth; for alle thes thingis it ben, whiche Y hate, seith the Lord.
Update Bible Version
and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, says Yahweh.
Webster's Bible Translation
And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbor; and love no false oath: for all these [are things] that I hate, saith the LORD.
New English Translation
Do not plan evil in your hearts against one another. Do not favor a false oath—these are all things that I hate,' says the Lord ."
New King James Version
Let none of you think evil in your [fn] heart against your neighbor;And do not love a false oath.For all these are things that I hate,'Says the Lord."
New Living Translation
Don't scheme against each other. Stop your love of telling lies that you swear are the truth. I hate all these things, says the Lord ."
New Life Bible
Do not make sinful plans against one another in your hearts. And do not love to make false promises. For I hate all these things,' says the Lord."
New Revised Standard
do not devise evil in your hearts against one another, and love no false oath; for all these are things that I hate, says the Lord .
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And let, no man, devise, the injury of his neighbour, in your heart, and the oath of falsehood, do not love, - for, all these, are things which I hate, declareth Yahweh.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his friend: and love not a false oath: for all these are the things that I hate, saith the Lord.
Revised Standard Version
do not devise evil in your hearts against one another, and love no false oath, for all these things I hate, says the LORD."
Young's Literal Translation
And each the evil of his neighbour ye do not devise in your heart, And a false oath ye do not love, For all these [are] things that I have hated, An affirmation of Jehovah.'
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
none of you ymagyn euell in his hert agaynst his neghboure, and loue no false oothes: for all these are the thinges that I hate, sayeth the LORDE.

Contextual Overview

9The Lord of Armies says this: “Let your hands be strong, you who now hear these words that the prophets spoke when the foundations were laid for the rebuilding of the temple, the house of the Lord of Armies. 10For prior to those days neither man nor animal had wages. There was no safety from the enemy for anyone who came or went, for I turned everyone against his neighbor. 11But now, I will not treat the remnant of this people as in the former days”—this is the declaration of the Lord of Armies. 12“For they will sow in peace: the vine will yield its fruit, the land will yield its produce, and the skies will yield their dew. I will give the remnant of this people all these things as an inheritance. 13As you have been a curse among the nations, house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you, and you will be a blessing. Don’t be afraid; let your hands be strong.” 14For the Lord of Armies says this: “As I resolved to treat you badly when your fathers provoked me to anger, and I did not relent,” says the Lord of Armies, 15“so I have resolved again in these days to do what is good to Jerusalem and the house of Judah. Don’t be afraid. 16These are the things you must do: Speak truth to one another; make true and sound decisions within your city gates. 17Do not plot evil in your hearts against your neighbor, and do not love perjury, for I hate all this”—this is the Lord’s declaration.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

let: Zechariah 7:10, Proverbs 3:29, Proverbs 6:14, Jeremiah 4:14, Micah 2:1-3, Matthew 5:28, Matthew 12:35, Matthew 15:19

love: Zechariah 5:3, Zechariah 5:4, Jeremiah 4:2, Malachi 3:5

things: Psalms 5:5, Psalms 5:6, Psalms 10:3, Proverbs 6:16-19, Proverbs 8:13, Jeremiah 44:4, Habakkuk 1:13

Reciprocal: Leviticus 19:11 - shall not Deuteronomy 16:22 - which Psalms 15:2 - speaketh Proverbs 6:18 - heart Isaiah 55:7 - his thoughts Isaiah 61:8 - I the Lord Zechariah 7:9 - saying Matthew 7:12 - for Matthew 26:72 - with 1 Timothy 1:10 - perjured Hebrews 1:9 - hated

Cross-References

Genesis 1:22
God blessed them: “Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the waters of the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.”
Genesis 1:28
God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and every creature that crawls on the earth.”
Genesis 8:13
In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the water that had covered the earth was dried up. Then Noah removed the ark’s cover and saw that the surface of the ground was drying.
Genesis 8:14
By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was dry.
Genesis 8:15
Then God spoke to Noah,
Genesis 9:1
God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
Genesis 9:7
But you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out over the earth and multiply on it.”
Psalms 107:38
He blesses them, and they multiply greatly;he does not let their livestock decrease.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour,.... :- hatred without a cause was a governing vice under the second temple, and Jarchi says was the cause of the destruction of it; see John 15:25:

and love no false oath; whereby the character and property of a fellow creature are hurt; nor any vain one, which the Jews were addicted to, Matthew 5:34:

for all these [are things] that I hate, saith the Lord; as being contrary to his nature, and to his law; and is a reason why they should be hated and avoided by men.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For all these things do I hate - Literally, emphatic, “For they are all these things which I hate.” This is the sum of what I hate; for they comprise in brief the breaches of the two tables, the love of God and of man.


 
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