Do not devise evil against your neighbor, For he dwells by you for safety's sake.

The wicked covet the catch of evil [men,] But the root of the righteous yields [fruit.]

He devises wickedness on his bed; He sets himself in a way [that is] not good; He does not abhor evil.

Your tongue devises destruction, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

You love evil more than good, Lying rather than speaking righteousness. Selah

"For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

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

Now these things became our examples, to the intent that we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted.

Where do wars and fights [come] from among you? Do [they] not [come] from your [desires for] pleasure that war in your members?

You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend [it] on your pleasures.

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

For all that [is] in the world -- the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life -- is not of the Father but is of the world.

Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor Will also cry himself and not be heard.

'Ask your young men, and they will tell you. Therefore let [my] young men find favor in your eyes, for we come on a feast day. Please give whatever comes to your hand to your servants and to your son David.' "

Then Nabal answered David's servants, and said, "Who [is] David, and who [is] the son of Jesse? There are many servants nowadays who break away each one from his master.

A good man deals graciously and lends; He will guide his affairs with discretion.

He has dispersed abroad, He has given to the poor; His righteousness endures forever; His horn will be exalted with honor.

For the foolish person will speak foolishness, And his heart will work iniquity: To practice ungodliness, To utter error against the LORD, To keep the hungry unsatisfied, And he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

But a generous man devises generous things, And by generosity he shall stand.

You who hate good and love evil; Who strip the skin from My people, And the flesh from their bones;

Who also eat the flesh of My people, Flay their skin from them, Break their bones, And chop [them] in pieces Like [meat] for the pot, Like flesh in the caldron."

For judgment is without mercy to the one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

Indeed the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

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