Quotes About Intent

He who winks his eye devises perversity; he who purses his lips is bent on evil.

Why should the fool have money in his hand with no intention of buying wisdom?

The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable—how much more so when brought with ill intent!

for he is keeping track, inwardly counting the cost. “Eat and drink,” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

If one blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, it will be counted to him as a curse.

Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Draw near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.

“What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I take no delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.

Behold, I have created the craftsman who fans the coals into flame and forges a weapon fit for its task; and I have created the destroyer to wreak havoc.

What use to Me is frankincense from Sheba or sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable; your sacrifices do not please Me.”

Does a bird land in a snare where no bait has been set? Does a trap spring from the ground when it has nothing to catch?

Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fattened cattle I will have no regard.

Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morningís light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.

And when you pray, do not babble on like pagans, for they think that by their many words they will be heard.

A man is not defiled by what enters his mouth, but by what comes out of it.”

But Jesus knew their evil intent and said, “You hypocrites, why are you testing Me?

waiting to catch Him in something He might say.

Jesus was teaching at the temple every day, but the chief priests, scribes, and leaders of the people were intent on killing Him.

Repent, therefore, of your wickedness, and pray to the Lord. Perhaps He will forgive you for the intent of your heart.