Proverbs 1:11

American Standard Version (1901)

If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood; Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause;

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 1:18 : 18 And these lay wait for their own blood; They lurk privily for their own lives.
  • Prov 12:6 : 6 The words of the wicked are of lying in wait for blood; But the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
  • Jer 5:26 : 26 For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.
  • Jer 11:19 : 19 But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
  • Jer 18:18-20 : 18 Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words. 19 Give heed to me, O Jehovah, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me. 20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before thee to speak good for them, to turn away thy wrath from them.
  • Mic 7:2 : 2 The godly man is perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
  • Matt 26:3-4 : 3 Then were gathered together the chief priests, and the elders of the people, unto the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas; 4 and they took counsel together that they might take Jesus by subtlety, and kill him.
  • John 15:25 : 25 But [this cometh to pass], that the word may be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
  • Acts 23:15 : 15 Now therefore do ye with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you, as though ye would judge of his case more exactly: and we, before he comes near, are ready to slay him.
  • Acts 25:3 : 3 asking a favor against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem; laying a plot to kill him on the way.
  • Prov 30:14 : 14 There is a generation whose teeth are [as] swords, and their jaw teeth [as] knives, To devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
  • Ps 10:8-9 : 8 He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages; In the secret places doth he murder the innocent; His eyes are privily set against the helpless. 9 He lurketh in secret as a lion in his covert; He lieth in wait to catch the poor: He doth catch the poor, when he draweth him in his net. 10 He croucheth, he boweth down, And the helpless fall by his strong ones.
  • Ps 17:12 : 12 He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, And as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
  • Ps 35:7 : 7 For without cause have they hid for me their net [in] a pit; Without cause have they digged [a pit] for my soul.
  • Ps 56:6 : 6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, They mark my steps, Even as they have waited for my soul.
  • Ps 64:5-6 : 5 They encourage themselves in an evil purpose; They commune of laying snares privily; They say, Who will see them? 6 They search out iniquities; We have accomplished, [say they], a diligent search: And the inward thought and the heart of every one is deep.
  • Prov 1:16 : 16 For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood.

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    12Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, And whole, as those that go down into the pit;

    13We shall find all precious substance; We shall fill our houses with spoil;

    14Thou shalt cast thy lot among us; We will all have one purse:

    15My son, walk not thou in the way with them; Refrain thy foot from their path:

    16For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood.

    17For in vain is the net spread In the sight of any bird:

    18And these lay wait for their own blood; They lurk privily for their own lives.

    19So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; It taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

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    10My son, if sinners entice thee, Consent thou not.

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    21They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, And condemn the innocent blood.

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    4That they may shoot in secret places at the perfect: Suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.

    5They encourage themselves in an evil purpose; They commune of laying snares privily; They say, Who will see them?

  • Ps 10:8-9
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    8He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages; In the secret places doth he murder the innocent; His eyes are privily set against the helpless.

    9He lurketh in secret as a lion in his covert; He lieth in wait to catch the poor: He doth catch the poor, when he draweth him in his net.

  • Rom 3:15
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    15Their feet are swift to shed blood;

  • Ps 11:2
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    2For, lo, the wicked bend the bow, They make ready their arrow upon the string, That they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart;

  • Jer 5:26
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    26For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.

  • Isa 59:7
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    7Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths.

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    15Avoid it, pass not by it; Turn from it, and pass on.

    16For they sleep not, except they do evil; And their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.

    17For they eat the bread of wickedness, And drink the wine of violence.

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    6They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, They mark my steps, Even as they have waited for my soul.

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    32The wicked watcheth the righteous, And seeketh to slay him.

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    15Let death come suddenly upon them, Let them go down alive into Sheol; For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.

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    29A man of violence enticeth his neighbor, And leadeth him in a way that is not good.

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    7For without cause have they hid for me their net [in] a pit; Without cause have they digged [a pit] for my soul.

    8Let destruction come upon him unawares; And let his net that he hath hid catch himself: With destruction let him fall therein.

  • Jer 18:22
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    22Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them; for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

  • Prov 24:15
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    15Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous; Destroy not his resting-place:

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  • Prov 29:10
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    10The bloodthirsty hate him that is perfect; And as for the upright, they seek his life.

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    6The words of the wicked are of lying in wait for blood; But the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

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    17A man that is laden with the blood of any person Shall flee unto the pit; Let no man stay him.

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    2The godly man is perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.

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    18Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.

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