Proverbs 24:9

WEB

⁹The schemes of folly are sin. The mocker is detested by men.

KJV

⁹The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men.

BSB

⁹A foolish scheme is sin, and a mocker is detestable to men.

FBV

⁹Plans thought up by stupid people are sinful. Everyone hates those who are scornful of others.

Extra References

Matthew 15:19

¹⁹For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

2 Corinthians 10:5

⁵throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

Acts 8:22

²²Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.

Isaiah 55:7

⁷Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.

Proverbs 29:8

⁸Mockers stir up a city, but wise men turn away anger.

Proverbs 24:8

⁸One who plots to do evil will be called a schemer.

Matthew 9:4

⁴Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts?

Matthew 5:28

²⁸but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

Genesis 6:5

⁵The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.

Jeremiah 4:14

¹⁴Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?