Proverbs 21:10

The soul of the wicked desires evil [like an addictive substance];
His neighbor finds no compassion in his eyes.

1 Samuel 25:8-11

Ask your young men and they will tell you. Therefore let my young men find favor in your sight [and be well-treated], for we have come on a good (festive) day. Please, give whatever you find at hand to your servants and to your son David.’”

Psalm 36:4

He plans wrongdoing on his bed;
He sets himself on a path that is not good;
He does not reject or despise evil.

Psalm 52:2-3

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

Psalm 112:5

It is well with the man who is gracious and lends;
He conducts his affairs with justice.

Psalm 112:9

He has given freely to the poor;
His righteousness endures forever;
His horn will be exalted in honor.

Proverbs 3:29

Do not devise evil against your neighbor,
Who lives securely beside you.

Proverbs 12:12

The wicked desire the plunder of evil men,
But the root of the righteous yields richer fruit.

Proverbs 21:13

Whoever shuts his ears at the cry of the poor
Will cry out himself and not be answered.

Isaiah 32:6-8

For the fool speaks nonsense,
And his heart (mind) plans wickedness:
To practice ungodliness and to speak error concerning the Lord,
To keep the craving of the hungry unsatisfied
And to deprive the thirsty of drink.

Micah 3:2-3

“You who hate good and love evil,
Who tear the skin off my people
And their flesh from their bones;

Mark 7:21-22

For from within, [that is] out the heart of men, come base and malevolent thoughts and schemes, acts of sexual immorality, thefts, murders, adulteries,

1 Corinthians 10:6

Now these things [the warnings and admonitions] took place as examples for us, so that we would not crave evil things as they did.

James 2:13

For judgment will be merciless to one who has shown no mercy; but [to the one who has shown mercy] mercy triumphs [victoriously] over judgment.

James 4:1-5

What leads to [the unending] quarrels and conflicts among you? Do they not come from your [hedonistic] desires that wage war in your [bodily] members [fighting for control over you]?

James 5:4-6

Look! The wages that you have [fraudulently] withheld from the laborers who have mowed your fields are crying out [against you for vengeance]; and the cries of the harvesters have come to the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

1 John 2:16

For all that is in the world—the lust and sensual craving of the flesh and the lust and longing of the eyes and the boastful pride of life [pretentious confidence in one’s resources or in the stability of earthly things]—these do not come from the Father, but are from the world.

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