Proverbs 6:2
You are taken as in a net by the words of your mouth, the sayings of your lips have overcome you.
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Referenced Verses
- Prov 12:13 : 13 In the sin of the lips is a net which takes the sinner, but the upright man will come out of trouble.
- Prov 18:7 : 7 The mouth of a foolish man is his destruction, and his lips are a net for his soul.
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5 For your mouth is guided by your sin, and you have taken the tongue of the false for yourself.
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19 You have given your mouth to evil, your tongue to words of deceit.
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25 For fear of learning his ways and making a net ready for your soul.
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13 In the sin of the lips is a net which takes the sinner, but the upright man will come out of trouble.
14 From the fruit of his mouth will a man have good food in full measure, and the work of a man's hands will be rewarded.
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8 His feet take him into the net, and he goes walking into the cords.
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6 A foolish man's lips are a cause of fighting, and his mouth makes him open to blows.
7 The mouth of a foolish man is his destruction, and his lips are a net for his soul.
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10 The twisted cord is put secretly in the earth to take him, and the cord is placed in his way.
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37 For by your words will your righteousness be seen, and by your words you will be judged.
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27 Truly, you are such as would give up the child of a dead man to his creditors, and would make a profit out of your friend.
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8 The food which you have taken will come up again, and your pleasing words will be wasted.
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24 They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman.
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16 To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;
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12 The words of a wise man's mouth are sweet to all, but the lips of a foolish man are his destruction.
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21 Keep them ever folded in your heart, and have them hanging round your neck.
22 In your walking, it will be your guide; when you are sleeping, it will keep watch over you; when you are awake, it will have talk with you.
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6 Because much talk comes from dreams and things of no purpose. But let the fear of God be in you.
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26 For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life.
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6 Make no addition to his words, or he will make clear your error, and you will be seen to be false.
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24 I have put a net for you, and you have been taken, O Babylon, without your knowledge: you have been uncovered and taken because you were fighting against the Lord.
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18 For it is a delight to keep them in your heart, to have them ready on your lips.
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22 The evil-doer will be taken in the net of his crimes, and prisoned in the cords of his sin.
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2 So that you may be ruled by a wise purpose, and your lips may keep knowledge.
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16 Take a man's clothing if he makes himself responsible for a strange man, and get an undertaking from him who gives his word for strange men.
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23 He who keeps watch over his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.
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1 My son, if you will take my words to your heart, storing up my laws in your mind;
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5 Thorns and nets are in the way of the twisted: he who keeps watch over his soul will be far from them.
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13 So that you are turning your spirit against God, and letting such words go out of your mouth?
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4 Destruction is in all your words, O false tongue.
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12 Because of the sin of their mouths and the word of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride; and for their curses and their deceit,
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5 So that they may keep you from the strange woman, even from her whose words are smooth.
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15 He who makes himself responsible for a strange man will undergo much loss; but the hater of such undertakings will be safe.
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2 Let another man give you praise, and not your mouth; one who is strange to you, and not your lips.
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4 As for the works of men, by the word of your lips I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.
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10 My son, if sinners would take you out of the right way, do not go with them.
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21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue; and those to whom it is dear will have its fruit for their food.