"The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit."
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They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful.
And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.
I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways.
Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man;
The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.
The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men.
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.
Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men.
And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.
But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
The purposes of upright men are right, but the designs of evil-doers are deceit.
The thoughts of the righteous are right; the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
The thoughts of the righteous are just, But the advice of the wicked is deceitful.
The thoughts of the righteous `are' justice, The counsels of the wicked -- deceit.