Psalms 51:6
51:6 Look, you desire integrity in the inner man;
you want me to possess wisdom.
Psalms 58:2
58:2 No! You plan how to do what is unjust;
you deal out violence in the earth.
Psalms 62:4
62:4 They spend all their time planning how to bring him down.
They love to use deceit;
they pronounce blessings with their mouths,
but inwardly they utter curses. (Selah)
Psalms 64:6
64:6 They devise unjust schemes;
they disguise a well-conceived plot.
Man’s inner thoughts cannot be discovered.
Jeremiah 4:14
4:14 “Oh people of Jerusalem, purify your hearts from evil
so that you may yet be delivered.
How long will you continue to harbor up
wicked schemes within you?
Jeremiah 17:9
17:9 The human mind is more deceitful than anything else.
It is incurably bad. Who can understand it?
Mark 7:21-22
7:21 For from within, out of the human heart, come evil ideas, sexual immorality, theft, murder,
7:22 adultery, greed, evil, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, pride, and folly.
Luke 11:39
11:39 But the Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees clean
the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.