Proverbs 6:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Prov 6:1
    82%

    1My son, if you have made yourself responsible for your neighbour, or given your word for another,

  • Prov 6:3
    79%

    3Do this, my son, and make yourself free, because you have come into the power of your neighbour; go without waiting, and make a strong request to your neighbour.

  • Job 15:5-6
    2 verses
    76%

    5For your mouth is guided by your sin, and you have taken the tongue of the false for yourself.

    6It is by your mouth, even yours, that you are judged to be in the wrong, and not by me; and your lips give witness against you.

  • Ps 50:19-20
    2 verses
    75%

    19You have given your mouth to evil, your tongue to words of deceit.

    20You say evil of your brother; you make false statements against your mother's son.

  • Prov 22:25-26
    2 verses
    75%

    25For fear of learning his ways and making a net ready for your soul.

    26Be not one of those who give their hands in an agreement, or of those who make themselves responsible for debts:

  • Prov 12:13-14
    2 verses
    74%

    13In the sin of the lips is a net which takes the sinner, but the upright man will come out of trouble.

    14From 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.

  • Job 18:8
    73%

    8His feet take him into the net, and he goes walking into the cords.

  • Prov 18:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

    6A foolish man's lips are a cause of fighting, and his mouth makes him open to blows.

    7The mouth of a foolish man is his destruction, and his lips are a net for his soul.

  • Job 18:10
    73%

    10The twisted cord is put secretly in the earth to take him, and the cord is placed in his way.

  • Job 22:10
    73%

    10For this cause nets are round your feet, and you are overcome with sudden fear.

  • Matt 12:37
    72%

    37For by your words will your righteousness be seen, and by your words you will be judged.

  • Prov 17:18
    72%

    18A man without sense gives his hand in an agreement, and makes himself responsible before his neighbour.

  • Job 36:17-18
    2 verses
    72%

    17...

    18...

  • Job 6:27
    71%

    27Truly, 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.

  • Prov 23:8
    71%

    8The food which you have taken will come up again, and your pleasing words will be wasted.

  • Prov 6:24
    71%

    24They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman.

  • Prov 2:16
    71%

    16To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;

  • Eccl 10:12
    70%

    12The words of a wise man's mouth are sweet to all, but the lips of a foolish man are his destruction.

  • Prov 6:21-22
    2 verses
    70%

    21Keep them ever folded in your heart, and have them hanging round your neck.

    22In 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.

  • Eccl 5:6
    70%

    6Because much talk comes from dreams and things of no purpose. But let the fear of God be in you.

  • Prov 6:26
    70%

    26For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life.

  • Prov 30:6
    70%

    6Make no addition to his words, or he will make clear your error, and you will be seen to be false.

  • Jer 50:24
    70%

    24I 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.

  • Prov 22:18
    70%

    18For it is a delight to keep them in your heart, to have them ready on your lips.

  • Prov 5:22
    70%

    22The evil-doer will be taken in the net of his crimes, and prisoned in the cords of his sin.

  • Prov 5:2
    69%

    2So that you may be ruled by a wise purpose, and your lips may keep knowledge.

  • Prov 20:16
    69%

    16Take 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.

  • Prov 21:23
    69%

    23He who keeps watch over his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

  • Prov 2:1
    69%

    1My son, if you will take my words to your heart, storing up my laws in your mind;

  • Prov 22:5
    69%

    5Thorns and nets are in the way of the twisted: he who keeps watch over his soul will be far from them.

  • Job 15:13
    69%

    13So that you are turning your spirit against God, and letting such words go out of your mouth?

  • Isa 29:21
    69%

    21Who give help to a man in a wrong cause, and who put a net for the feet of him who gives decisions in the public place, taking away a man's right without cause.

  • Mic 7:5
    69%

    5Put no faith in a friend, do not let your hope be placed in a relation: keep watch on the doors of your mouth against her who is resting on your breast.

  • Prov 6:5
    69%

    5Make yourself free, like the roe from the hand of the archer, and the bird from him who puts a net for her.

  • Ps 52:4
    69%

    4Destruction is in all your words, O false tongue.

  • Prov 20:25
    69%

    25It is a danger to a man to say without thought, It is holy, and, after taking his oaths, to be questioning if it is necessary to keep them.

  • Ps 59:12
    68%

    12Because 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,

  • Prov 7:5
    68%

    5So that they may keep you from the strange woman, even from her whose words are smooth.

  • Prov 11:15
    68%

    15He who makes himself responsible for a strange man will undergo much loss; but the hater of such undertakings will be safe.

  • Prov 27:2
    68%

    2Let another man give you praise, and not your mouth; one who is strange to you, and not your lips.

  • Ps 17:4
    68%

    4As for the works of men, by the word of your lips I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.

  • Prov 1:10
    68%

    10My son, if sinners would take you out of the right way, do not go with them.

  • Prov 18:21
    68%

    21Death and life are in the power of the tongue; and those to whom it is dear will have its fruit for their food.