Proverbs 6:14

¹Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

¹⁷Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

¹⁸a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief, ¹⁹a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

⁷For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.

⁴He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.

¹⁴who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil,

¹⁷Like one who grabs a dog’s ears is one who passes by and meddles in a quarrel not his own. ¹⁸Like a madman who shoots torches, arrows, and death, ¹⁹is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, “Am I not joking?” ²⁰For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down. ²¹As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindling strife. ²²The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, they go down into the innermost parts.

²He said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity, and who give wicked counsel in this city;

⁷Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. ⁸For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

⁸The way of the guilty is devious, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.