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the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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World English Bible

Proverbs 24:2

For their hearts plot violence, And their lips talk about mischief.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Heart;   Speaking;   Young Men;   Thompson Chain Reference - Evil;   Mischief;   Silence-Speech;   Speaking, Evil;   Speech;   The Topic Concordance - Company;   Desire;   Destruction;   Envy;   Mischief;   Speech/communication;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Heart, Character of the Unrenewed;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Greek Versions of Ot;   Lip;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Mischief;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
for their hearts plan violence,and their words stir up trouble.
Hebrew Names Version
For their hearts plot violence, And their lips talk about mischief.
King James Version
For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
English Standard Version
for their hearts devise violence, and their lips talk of trouble.
New American Standard Bible
For their minds plot violence, And their lips talk of trouble.
New Century Version
Their minds are always planning violence, and they always talk about making trouble.
Amplified Bible
For their minds plot violence, And their lips talk of trouble [for the innocent].
Geneva Bible (1587)
For their heart imagineth destruction, and their lippes speake mischiefe.
Legacy Standard Bible
For their heart meditates on destruction,And their lips talk of mischief.
Berean Standard Bible
for their hearts devise violence, and their lips declare trouble.
Contemporary English Version
All they think about and talk about is violence and cruelty.
Complete Jewish Bible
For their minds are occupied with violence, and their lips speak of making trouble.
Darby Translation
for their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
Easy-to-Read Version
In their hearts they plan to do evil. All they talk about is making trouble.
George Lamsa Translation
For their hearts devise evil and their lips talk of iniquity.
Good News Translation
Causing trouble is all they ever think about; every time they open their mouth someone is going to be hurt.
Lexham English Bible
For their minds will devise violence, and their lips will speak mischief.
Literal Translation
For their heart studies violence, and their lips talk of mischief.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For their herte ymagineth to do hurte, & their lippes talke of myschefe.
American Standard Version
For their heart studieth oppression, And their lips talk of mischief.
Bible in Basic English
For the purposes of their hearts are destruction, and their lips are talking of trouble.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
King James Version (1611)
For their heart studieth destruction, and their lippes talke of mischiefe.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For their heart imagineth to do hurt, and their lippes talke mischiefe.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For their heart meditates falsehoods, and their lips speak mischiefs.
English Revised Version
For their heart studieth oppression, and their lips talk of mischief.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For the soule of hem bithenkith raueyns, and her lippis speken fraudis.
Update Bible Version
For their heart studies oppression, And their lips talk of mischief.
Webster's Bible Translation
For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
New English Translation
for their hearts contemplate violence, and their lips speak harm.
New King James Version
For their heart devises violence, And their lips talk of troublemaking.
New Living Translation
For their hearts plot violence, and their words always stir up trouble.
New Life Bible
For their hearts make plans to hurt others and their lips talk about trouble.
New Revised Standard
for their minds devise violence, and their lips talk of mischief.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, violence, their heart muttereth, and, mischief, their lips do speak.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Because their mind studieth robberies, and their lips speak deceits.
Revised Standard Version
for their minds devise violence, and their lips talk of mischief.
Young's Literal Translation
For destruction doth their heart meditate, And perverseness do their lips speak.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For their minds devise violence, And their lips talk of trouble.

Contextual Overview

1 Don't you be envious against evil men; Neither desire to be with them: 2 For their hearts plot violence, And their lips talk about mischief.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 24:8, Proverbs 6:14, 1 Samuel 23:9, Esther 3:6, Esther 3:7, Job 15:35, Psalms 7:14, Psalms 10:7, Psalms 28:3, Psalms 36:4, Psalms 64:4-6, Psalms 140:2, Isaiah 59:4, Micah 7:3, Matthew 26:3, Matthew 26:4, Luke 23:20, Luke 23:21, Acts 13:10

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 20:7 - seeketh mischief Romans 2:6 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 15:2
Abram said, "Lord Yahweh, what will you give me, seeing I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?"
Genesis 24:4
But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac."
Genesis 24:6
Abraham said to him, "Beware that you don't bring my son there again.
Genesis 24:8
If the woman isn't willing to follow you, then you shall be clear from this my oath. Only you shall not bring my son there again."
Genesis 24:9
The servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.
Genesis 24:10
The servant took ten camels, of his master's camels, and departed, having all goodly things of his master's in his hand. He arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.
Genesis 44:1
He commanded the steward of his house, saying, "Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man's money in his sack's mouth.
Genesis 47:29
The time drew near that Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, "If now I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Please don't bury me in Egypt,
1 Chronicles 29:24
All the princes, and the mighty men, and all the sons likewise of king David, submitted themselves to Solomon the king.
1 Timothy 5:17
Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For their heart studieth destruction,.... To others; to good men, that separate from them, and reprove them, or are in their way; or any ways hinder them in the prosecution of their wicked designs; as Haman's heart studied the destruction of the Jews: or their hearts study to draw men into their destructive methods of living, and therefore should be shunned and avoided. Moreover, their hearts study destruction to themselves; they study what they shall eat and drink, which they pursue to intemperance; and how they shall compass their lewd designs, and which issue in their ruin; destruction and misery are in all the ways they devise and walk in;

and their lips talk of mischief; which they study in their hearts against others; as are their hearts, so are their lips; out of the abundance of the wickedness of their hearts their mouths speak mischievous things; and which, though they design for others, oftentimes fall upon themselves.


 
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