Do good or scheme; two choices for me to make. What do these mean to me? Doing good in the Bible is defined by two commandments; love God with all my heart, mind, soul, and strength and love my neighbor. 3:3 states, “Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.”
To scheme and to be crafty means to devise a large-scale systematic plan or arrangement for attaining a particular object or putting a particular idea into effect. When the Lord saw that man’s wickedness was widespread on the earth during Noah’s time and that every scheme his mind thought of was nothing but evil all the time he brought a flood to the whole earth as judgment. (Genesis 6:5)
“Do not deceive yourselves. If any one of you thinks he is wise by the standards of this age, he should become a “fool” so that he may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: ‘He catches the wise in their craftiness’; and again, ‘The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.’” (1 Corinthians 3:18-20) “There are six things the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to him:… a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil,” (Proverbs 6:18)
