See how wicked people think up evil; they plan trouble and practice deception.

You go to court, but you do not have justice on your side. You depend on lies to win your case. You carry out your plans to hurt others.

The evil plots you make are as deadly as the eggs of a poisonous snake. Crush an egg, out comes a snake! But your plots will do you no good---they are as useless as clothing made of cobwebs!

But instead you planted evil and reaped its harvest. You have eaten the fruit produced by your lies. "Because you trusted in your chariots and in the large number of your soldiers,

Do not deceive yourselves; no one makes a fool of God. You will reap exactly what you plant.

If you plant in the field of your natural desires, from it you will gather the harvest of death; if you plant in the field of the Spirit, from the Spirit you will gather the harvest of eternal life.

Then our evil desires conceive and give birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.