Proverbs 6:2

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Thou art bounde with thine owne wordes, and taken with thine owne speach.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 12:13 : 13 The wicked falleth into the snare thorowe the malice of his owne mouth: but the iust shall escape out of all perill.
  • Prov 18:7 : 7 A fooles mouth is his owne destruction, and his lippes are the snare for his owne soule.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 6:1
    82%

    1My sonne if thou be suretie for thy neyghbour, and hast fastened thyne hande for another man:

  • Prov 6:3
    79%

    3Therfore my sonne do this, and thou shalt be discharged: When thou art come into thy neyghbours daunger, go thy wayes then soone, humble thy selfe, and with thy frendes intreate thy creditour.

  • Job 15:5-6
    2 verses
    76%

    5For thy mouth setteth forth thyne owne iniquitie, seeing thou hast chosen the tongue of the craftie.

    6Thyne owne mouth condempneth thee, and not I: yea, thyne owne lippes shape an aunswere against thee.

  • Ps 50:19-20
    2 verses
    75%

    19Thou hast let thy mouth speake wickednesse: and with thy tongue thou hast set foorth deceipt.

    20Thou sattest and spakedst agaynst thy brother: yea and hast slaundered thine owne mothers sonne.

  • Prov 22:25-26
    2 verses
    75%

    25Lest thou learne his wayes, and receaue hurt to thy soule.

    26Be not thou one of them that binde their hande vpon promise, and are suretie for waightie causes:

  • Prov 12:13-14
    2 verses
    74%

    13The wicked falleth into the snare thorowe the malice of his owne mouth: but the iust shall escape out of all perill.

    14Man shalbe satisfied with good thinges: by the fruite of his mouth, and after the workes of his handes shall he be rewarded.

  • Job 18:8
    73%

    8For his feete are taken as it were in the net, & he walketh vpon the snares.

  • Prov 18:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

    6A fooles lippes come with brawling, and his mouth prouoketh vnto stripes.

    7A fooles mouth is his owne destruction, and his lippes are the snare for his owne soule.

  • Job 18:10
    73%

    10The snare is layde for him in the grounde, and a pitfall in the way.

  • Job 22:10
    73%

    10Therefore art thou compassed about with snares, & sodenly vexed with feare.

  • Matt 12:37
    72%

    37For of thy wordes, thou shalt be iustified: and of thy wordes, thou shalt be condemned.

  • Prov 17:18
    72%

    18Who so promiseth by the hande and is suretie for his neighbour, he is a foole.

  • Job 36:17-18
    2 verses
    72%

    17Neuerthelesse, thou hast commended the iudgement of the vngodly, and euen such a iudgement & sentence shalt thou suffer.

    18And seeing there is wrath with God, beware lest he take thee away in thy wealth, & all that thou hast to redeeme thee can not deliuer thee.

  • Job 6:27
    71%

    27Ye fall vpon the fatherlesse, and digge a pit to ouerthrowe your owne frende.

  • Prov 23:8
    71%

    8The morsels that thou hast eaten shalt thou parbreake, and loose those sweete wordes.

  • Prov 6:24
    71%

    24That they may kepe thee from the euyll woman, and from the flattering tongue of the straunge woman.

  • Prov 2:16
    71%

    16That thou mayest be deliuered also from the straunge woman, and from her that is not thine owne, which geueth sweete wordes,

  • Eccl 10:12
    70%

    12The wordes out of a wyse mans mouth are gratious: but the lippes of a foole wyll destroy him selfe.

  • Prov 6:21-22
    2 verses
    70%

    21Tye them continually in thyne heart, and bynde them about thy necke.

    22That shall leade thee when thou goest, preserue thee when thou art asleepe, and when thou awakest talke with thee.

  • Eccl 5:6
    70%

    6Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy fleshe for to sinne, neither say thou before the angell that it is thy ignoraunce: for then God wyll be angry at thy voyce, and destroy all the worke of thyne handes.

  • Prov 6:26
    70%

    26By an harlot a man is brought to beg his bread, and a woman wyll hunte for the pretious life of man.

  • Prov 30:6
    70%

    6Put thou nothyng vnto his wordes, lest he reproue thee, and thou be founde a lyar.

  • Jer 50:24
    70%

    24I my selfe haue layde a snare for thee, and thou art taken vnawares, thou art trapped and snared: for why? thou hast contended agaynst the Lorde.

  • Prov 22:18
    70%

    18For it is a pleasaunt thing if thou kepe them in thyne heart, and order them in thy lippes:

  • Prov 5:22
    70%

    22The wickednes of the vngodly shall catche him selfe, and with the snares of his owne sinne shall he be trapped.

  • Prov 5:2
    69%

    2That thou mayest regarde good counsell, and that thy lippes may kepe knowledge.

  • Prov 20:16
    69%

    16Take his garment that is suretie for a straunger: and take a pledge of hym for the vnknowen sake.

  • Prov 21:23
    69%

    23Who so kepeth his mouth and his tongue, the same kepeth his soule from troubles.

  • Prov 2:1
    69%

    1My sonne, if thou wylt receaue my wordes, and lay vp my commaundementes within thee,

  • Prov 22:5
    69%

    5Thornes and snares are in the way of the frowarde: but he that doth kepe his soule, wyll flee farre from them.

  • Job 15:13
    69%

    13That thy minde is so pufte vp against God, and lettest such wordes go out of thy mouth?

  • Isa 29:21
    69%

    21Making a man to sinne in the worde, and that toke him in a snare, whiche reproued them in the open place, and they that haue turned the cause of the righteous to naught.

  • Mic 7:5
    69%

    5Let no man beleeue his friende, nor put his confidence in his brother: kepe the doore of thy mouth from her that lyeth in thy bosome.

  • Prov 6:5
    69%

    5Saue thy self as a Doe from the hand of the hunter and as a byrde from the hande of the fouler.

  • Ps 52:4
    69%

    4Thou hast loued to speake all wordes that may do hurt: O thou deceiptfull tongue.

  • Prov 20:25
    69%

    25It is a snare for a man to deuour that whiche is holy, and after the vowe to make inquirie.

  • Ps 59:12
    68%

    12The wordes of their lippes be the sinne of their mouth: O let them be taken in their pryde, for they speake nothing but curses and lies.

  • Prov 7:5
    68%

    5That they may kepe thee from the straunge woman, and from the forraine woman which geueth sweete wordes.

  • Prov 11:15
    68%

    15He that is suretie for a straunger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretishyp is sure.

  • Prov 27:2
    68%

    2Let another man prayse thee, and not thyne owne mouth, yea other folkes, and not thyne owne lippes.

  • Ps 17:4
    68%

    4As touchyng other mens workes: through the wordes of thy lyppes I haue kept me from the way of the violent.

  • Prov 1:10
    68%

    10My sonne, if sinners entice thee, consent not vnto them.

  • Prov 18:21
    68%

    21Death and life are in the instrument of the tongue, and they that loue it, shall eate the fruite thereof.