Proverbs 21:10

The wicked crave evil and show no mercy even to their neighbor. It matters because it exposes the merciless heart bent on doing harm.

Cross-references · 16

• Mic 3:2–3You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones;
• 1 Jn 2:16For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.
• Prov 3:29Don’t devise evil against your neighbor, since he dwells securely by you.
• 1 Cor 10:6Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
• Mark 7:21–22For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,
• Ps 36:4He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.
• Isa 32:6–8For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice profanity, and to utter error against Yahweh, To make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
• Ps 112:9He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.
• Prov 21:13Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.
• Ps 52:2–3Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
• Jas 2:13For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
• 1 Sam 25:8–11Ask your young men, and they will tell you. Therefore let the young men find favor in your eyes; for we come on a good day. Please give whatever comes to your hand, to your servants, and to your son David.’”
• Jas 5:4–6Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.
• Ps 112:5It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.
• Prov 12:12The wicked desires the plunder of evil men, but the root of the righteous flourishes.
• Jas 4:1–5Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

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