Psa 36:4, 52:2-3, Pro 3:29, 12:12, Mar 7:21-22, 1Cor 10:6, Jam 4:1-5 | ESV | STEP | He plots trouble while on his bed ; he sets himself in a way that is not good ; he does not reject evil .

nSee Matt. 6:23 (Gk.)

o Eph. 4:31; Col. 3:8; 1 Tim. 6:4

pSee Luke 1:51

q[Eph. 5:17]

r Num. 11:4, 33, 34; Ps. 78:18; 106:14

t Rom. 7:23; 1 Pet. 2:11

v[1 John 5:14]

w Isa. 54:5; Jer. 2:2

y John 15:19; 1 John 2:15; [Matt. 6:24]

z 1 Cor. 6:19; 2 Cor. 6:16

Psalms 36:4

4 He ^aplots ^btrouble while on his bed;
he sets himself in ^ca way that is not good;
^dhe does not reject evil.

Psalms 52:2-3

2 Your ^etongue plots destruction,
like ^fa sharp razor, you ^gworker of deceit.
3 You love evil more than good,
and ^hlying more than speaking what is right. Selah

Proverbs 3:29

29 ⁱDo not plan evil against your neighbor,
who ^jdwells trustingly beside you.

Proverbs 12:12

12 Whoever is wicked covets ^kthe spoil of evildoers,
but the root of the righteous bears fruit.

Mark 7:21-22

21 For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, ^lmurder, adultery, 22 coveting, wickedness, deceit, ^msensuality, ⁿenvy, ^oslander, ^ppride, ^qfoolishness.

1 Corinthians 10:6

6 Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as ^rthey did.

James 4:1-5

Warning Against Worldliness

1 What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions ^{▼▼Greek pleasures; also verse 3} are ^tat war within you? ^{▼▼Greek in your members} 2 You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. 3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask ^vwrongly, to spend it on your passions. 4 ^wYou adulterous people! ^{▼▼Greek You adulteresses!} Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? ^yTherefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 5 Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit ^zthat he has made to dwell in us”?