Do not devise evil against your friend, living near you and trusting in you.

The desires of the ungodly are evil, but the roots of the godly are firmly set.

He devises iniquity on his bed; he gives himself to every evil way; and does not abhor evil.

your tongue has devised unrighteousness; like a sharpened razor you have worked deceit.

You have loved wickedness more than goodness; unrighteousness better than to speak righteousness. Pause.

For from within, out of the heart of men, come forth evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, arrogance, foolishness.

Now these things became examples for us, in order that we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

From where [come] wars and disputes among you? Is it not from here, from your lusts, which war in your members?

You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend [it] in [gratifying] your lusts.

Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously"?

Because everything that is in the world--the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life--is not from the Father but is from the world.

He that stops his ears from hearing the poor, himself also shall cry, and there shall be none to hear [him].

Ask your servants, and they will tell you. Let then your servants find grace in your eyes, for we have come on a good day; please give whatsoever your hand may find, to your son David.

And Nabal sprang up, and answered the servants of David, and said, Who is David? And who is the son of Jesse? Nowadays there are an abundance of servants who depart, everyone from his master.

The good man is he that pities and lends; he will direct his affairs with judgment.

He has dispersed abroad; he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures forever; his horn shall be exalted with honor.

For the fool shall speak foolish words, and his heart shall meditate vanities, and to perform lawless deeds and to speak error against the Lord, to scatter hungry souls, and He will cause the thirsty souls to be empty.

But the godly have devised wise [measures], and this counsel shall stand.

Who hate good, and seek evil; who tear their skins off them, and their flesh off their bones:

even as they devoured the flesh of My people, and stripped their skins off them, and broke their bones, and divided [them] as flesh for the caldron, and as meat for the pot,

For judgment is without mercy to the one who does not show mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

Indeed, the wages of the laborers who reaped your fields, which were kept back by you, cry out, and the cries of the reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

You have condemned; you have murdered the just. He does not resist you.