Gen 6:5 The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Exo 31:4 to devise artistic designs, to work in gold, silver, and bronze,
Exo 35:32 to devise artistic designs, to work in gold and silver and bronze,
Exo 35:33 in cutting stones for setting, and in carving wood, for work in every skilled craft.
Exo 35:35 He has filled them with skill to do every sort of work done by an engraver or by a designer or by an embroiderer in blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, or by a weaver—by any sort of workman or skilled designer.

2Sa 14:14 We must all die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. But God will not take away life, and he devises means so that the banished one will not remain an outcast.

1Ch 28:9 “And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a whole heart and with a willing mind, for the Lord searches all hearts and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
1Ch 29:18 O Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our fathers, keep forever such purposes and thoughts in the hearts of your people, and direct their hearts toward you.
2Ch 2:14 the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre. He is trained to work in gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone, and wood, and in purple, blue, and crimson fabrics and fine linen, and to do all sorts of engraving and execute any design that may be assigned him, with your craftsmen, the craftsmen of my lord, David your father.
2Ch 26:15 In Jerusalem he made machines, invented by skillful men, to be on the towers and the corners, to shoot arrows and great stones. And his fame spread far, for he was marvelously helped, till he was strong.

Est 8:3 Then Esther spoke again to the king. She fell at his feet and wept and pleaded with him to avert the evil plan of Haman the Agagite and the plot that he had devised against the Jews.
Est 8:5 And she said, “If it please the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and if the thing seems right before the king, and I am pleasing in his eyes, let an order be written to revoke the letters devised by Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the provinces of the king.
Est 9:25 But when it came before the king, he gave orders in writing that his evil plan that he had devised against the Jews should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
Job 5:12 He frustrates the devices of the crafty,
so that their hands achieve no success.
Job 21:27 Behold, I know your thoughts
and your schemes to wrong me.
Psa 33:10 The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing;
he frustrates the plans of the peoples.
Psa 33:11 The counsel of the Lord stands forever,
the plans of his heart to all generations.
Psa 40:5 You have multiplied, O Lord my God,
your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us;
none can compare with you!
I will proclaim and tell of them,
yet they are more than can be told.
Psa 56:5 All day long they injure my cause;
all their thoughts are against me for evil.
Psa 92:5 How great are your works, O Lord!
Your thoughts are very deep!
Psa 94:11 the Lordknows the thoughts of man,
that they are but a breath.
Pro 6:18 a heart that devises wicked plans,
feet that make haste to run to evil,
Pro 12:5 The thoughts of the righteous are just;
the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.
Pro 15:22 Without counsel plans fail,
but with many advisers they succeed.
Pro 15:26 The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord,
but gracious words are pure.
Pro 16:3 Commit your work to the Lord,
and your plans will be established.
Pro 19:21 Many are the plans in the mind of a man,
but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.
Pro 20:18 Plans are established by counsel;
by wise guidance wage war.
Pro 21:5 The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance,
but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.
Isa 55:7 let the wicked forsake his way,
and the unrighteous man his thoughts;
let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him,
and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Isa 55:8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.
Isa 55:9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Isa 59:7 Their feet run to evil,
and they are swift to shed innocent blood;
their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;
desolation and destruction are in their highways.
Isa 65:2 I spread out my hands all the day
to a rebellious people,
who walk in a way that is not good,
following their own devices;

Isa 66:18 “For I know their works and their thoughts, and the time is coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and shall see my glory,
Jer 4:14 O Jerusalem, wash your heart from evil,
that you may be saved.
How long shall your wicked thoughts
lodge within you?
Jer 6:19 Hear, O earth; behold, I am bringing disaster upon this people,
the fruit of their devices,
because they have not paid attention to my words;
and as for my law, they have rejected it.
Jer 11:19 But I was like a gentle lamb
led to the slaughter.
I did not know it was against me
they devised schemes, saying,
“Let us destroy the tree with its fruit,
let us cut him off from the land of the living,
that his name be remembered no more.”
Jer 18:11 Now, therefore, say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: ‘Thus says the Lord, Behold, I am shaping disaster against you and devising a plan against you. Return, every one from his evil way, and amend your ways and your deeds.’

Jer 18:12 “But they say, ‘That is in vain! We will follow our own plans, and will every one act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’

Jer 18:18 Then they said, Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words.”

Jer 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Jer 49:20 Therefore hear the plan that the Lord has made against Edom and the purposes that he has formed against the inhabitants of Teman: Even the little ones of the flock shall be dragged away. Surely their fold shall be appalled at their fate.
Jer 49:30 Flee, wander far away, dwell in the depths,
O inhabitants of Hazor!

declares the Lord.
For Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
has made a plan against you
and formed a purpose against you.
Jer 50:45 Therefore hear the plan that the Lord has made against Babylon, and the purposes that he has formed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the little ones of their flock shall be dragged away; surely their fold shall be appalled at their fate.
Jer 51:29 The land trembles and writhes in pain,
for the Lord’s purposes against Babylon stand,
to make the land of Babylon a desolation,
without inhabitant.
Lam 3:60 You have seen all their vengeance,
all their plots against me.
Lam 3:61 “You have heard their taunts, O Lord,
all their plots against me.

Eze 38:10Thus says the Lord God: On that day, thoughts will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil scheme
Dan 11:24 Without warning he shall come into the richest parts of the province, and he shall do what neither his fathers nor his fathersfathers have done, scattering among them plunder, spoil, and goods. He shall devise plans against strongholds, but only for a time.
Dan 11:25 And he shall stir up his power and his heart against the king of the south with a great army. And the king of the south shall wage war with an exceedingly great and mighty army, but he shall not stand, for plots shall be devised against him.
Mic 4:12 But they do not know
the thoughts of the Lord;
they do not understand his plan,
that he has gathered them as sheaves to the threshing floor.
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