Zechariah 7:10

7:10 You must not oppress the widow, the orphan, the foreigner, or the poor, nor should anyone secretly plot evil against his fellow human being.’

Proverbs 3:29

3:29 Do not plot ¹  evil against your neighbor

when ²  he dwells by you unsuspectingly.

Proverbs 6:14

6:14 he plots evil with perverse thoughts ³  in his heart,

he spreads contention ⁴  at all times.

Jeremiah 4:14

4:14 “Oh people of Jerusalem, purify your hearts from evil ⁵ 

so that you may yet be delivered.

How long will you continue to harbor up

wicked schemes within you?

Micah 2:1-3

Land Robbers Will Lose their Land

2:1 Those who devise sinful plans are as good as dead, ⁶ 

those who dream about doing evil as they lie in bed. ⁷ 

As soon as morning dawns they carry out their plans, ⁸ 

because they have the power to do so.

2:2 They confiscate the fields they desire,

and seize the houses they want. ⁹ 

They defraud people of their homes, ¹⁰ 

and deprive people of the land they have inherited. ¹¹ 

2:3 Therefore the Lord says this: “Look, I am devising disaster for this nation! ¹² 

It will be like a yoke from which you cannot free your neck. ¹³ 

You will no longer ¹⁴  walk proudly,

for it will be a time of catastrophe.

Matthew 5:28

5:28 But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to desire her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Matthew 12:35

12:35 The good person ¹⁵  brings good things out of his ¹⁶  good treasury, ¹⁷  and the evil person brings evil things out of his evil treasury.

Matthew 15:19

15:19 For out of the heart come evil ideas, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.

¹ sn The verb חָרַשׁ (kharash) means “to cut in; to engrave; to plough; to devise.” The idea of plotting is metaphorical for working, practicing or fabricating (BDB 360 s.v.).

² tn The vav (ו) prefixed to the pronoun introduces a disjunctive circumstantial clause: “when….”

¹ tn The noun is an adverbial accusative of manner, explaining the circumstances that inform his evil plans.

² tn The word “contention” is from the root דִּין (din); the noun means “strife, contention, quarrel.” The normal plural form is represented by the Qere, and the contracted form by the Kethib.

¹ tn Heb “Oh, Jerusalem, wash your heart from evil.”

¹ tn Heb “Woe to those who plan sin.” The Hebrew term הוֹי (hoy, “woe”; “ah”) was a cry used in mourning the dead.

² tn Heb “those who do evil upon their beds.”

³ tn Heb “at the light of morning they do it.”

¹ tn Heb “they desire fields and rob [them], and houses and take [them] away.”

² tn Heb “and they oppress a man and his home.”

³ tn Heb “and a man and his inheritance.” The verb עָשַׁק (’ashaq, “to oppress”; “to wrong”) does double duty in the parallel structure and is understood by ellipsis in the second line.

¹ tn Heb “clan” or “extended family.”

² tn Heb “from which you will not remove your neck.” The words “It will be like a yoke” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

³ tn Or “you will not.”

¹ tn The Greek text reads here ἄνθρωπος (anqrwpos). The term is generic referring to any person.

² tn Grk “the”; the Greek article has been translated here and in the following clause (“his evil treasury”) as a possessive pronoun (ExSyn 215).

³ sn The treasury here is a metaphorical reference to a person’s heart (cf. BDAG 456 s.v. θησαυρός 1.b and the parallel passage in Luke 6:45).