Proverbs 1:18

Geneva Bible (1560)

So they lay waite for blood and lie priuily for their liues.

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Referenced Verses

  • Esth 7:10 : 10 So they hanged Haman on the tree, that he had prepared for Mordecai: then was the Kings wrath pacified.
  • Ps 7:14-16 : 14 Beholde, hee shall trauaile with wickednes: for he hath conceiued mischiefe, but he shall bring foorth a lye. 15 Hee hath made a pitte and digged it, and is fallen into the pit that he made. 16 His mischiefe shall returne vpon his owne head, & his crueltie shall fall vpon his owne pate.
  • Ps 9:16 : 16 The Lord is knowen by executing iudgement: the wicked is snared in the worke of his owne handes. Higgaion. Selah.
  • Ps 55:23 : 23 And thou, O God, shalt bring them downe into the pitte of corruption: the bloudie, and deceitfull men shall not liue halfe their dayes: but I will trust in thee.
  • Prov 5:22-23 : 22 His owne iniquities shall take the wicked himselfe, and he shall be holden with the cordes of his owne sinne. 23 Hee shall die for faute of instruction, and shall goe astraie through his great follie.
  • Prov 9:17-18 : 17 Stollen waters are sweete, and hid bread is pleasant. 18 But he knoweth not, that ye dead are there, and that her ghestes are in the depth of hell.
  • Prov 28:17 : 17 A man that doeth violence against the blood of a person, shall flee vnto the graue, and they shall not stay him.
  • Matt 27:4-5 : 4 Saying, I haue sinned, betraying the innocent bloud. But they sayde, What is that to vs? see thou to it. 5 And when hee had cast downe the siluer pieces in the Temple, hee departed, and went, and hanged himselfe.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 1:19
    83%

    19Such are the wayes of euery one that is greedy of gaine: he would take away the life of the owners thereof.

  • Prov 1:11-12
    2 verses
    82%

    11If they say, Come with vs, we will lay waite for blood, and lie priuilie for the innocent without a cause:

    12We wil swallow them vp aliue like a graue euen whole, as those that goe downe into the pit:

  • Prov 1:16-17
    2 verses
    80%

    16For their feete runne to euill, & make haste to shed blood.

    17Certainely as without cause the net is spred before the eyes of all that hath wing:

  • Jer 5:26-27
    2 verses
    79%

    26For among my people are founde wicked persons, that lay waite as hee that setteth snares: they haue made a pit, to catch men.

    27As a cage is full of birdes, so are their houses full of deceite: thereby they are become great and waxen riche.

  • Ps 10:8-9
    2 verses
    78%

    8He lieth in waite in the villages: in the secret places doeth hee murther the innocent: his eyes are bent against the poore.

    9He lyeth in waite secretly, euen as a lyon in his denne: he lyeth in waite to spoyle the poore: he doeth spoyle the poore, when he draweth him into his net.

  • Ps 64:4-6
    3 verses
    78%

    4To shoote at the vpright in secrete: they shoote at him suddenly, and feare not.

    5They encourage themselues in a wicked purpose: they commune together to lay snares priuilie, and say, Who shall see them?

    6They haue sought out iniquities, and haue accomplished that which they sought out, euen euery one his secret thoughtes, and the depth of his heart.

  • Ps 56:6
    78%

    6They gather together, and keepe them selues close: they marke my steps, because they waite for my soule.

  • Rom 3:15
    76%

    15Their feete are swift to shead blood.

  • Job 18:10
    75%

    10A snare is layed for him in the ground, and a trappe for him in the way.

  • Ps 38:12
    75%

    12They also, that seeke after my life, laye snares, and they that go about to do me euil, talke wicked things and imagine deceite continually.

  • Ps 37:32
    75%

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

  • Job 38:40
    75%

    40(39:2) When they couch in their places, and remaine in the couert to lye in waite?

  • Mic 7:2-3
    2 verses
    75%

    2The good man is perished out of the earth, and there is none righteous among men: they all lye in wayte for blood: euery man hunteth his brother with a net.

    3To make good for the euil of their hands, the prince asked, and the iudge iudgeth for a reward: therefore the great man he speaketh out the corruption of his soule: so they wrapt it vp.

  • Isa 59:7
    74%

    7Their feete runne to euill, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are wicked thoughts: desolation and destruction is in their paths.

  • Ps 11:2
    74%

    2For loe, the wicked bende their bowe, and make readie their arrowes vpon the string, that they may secretly shoote at them, which are vpright in heart.

  • Prov 4:16
    74%

    16For they can not sleepe, except they haue done euill, and their sleepe departeth except they cause some to fall.

  • Ps 17:11-12
    2 verses
    74%

    11They haue compassed vs now in our steps: they haue set their eyes to bring downe to the ground:

    12Like as a lyon that is greedy of pray, and as it were a lyons whelp lurking in secret places.

  • Ps 59:3
    74%

    3For loe, they haue layd waite for my soule: the mightie men are gathered against me, not for mine offence, nor for my sinne, O Lord.

  • Jer 18:22
    74%

    22Let the crye bee heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring an hoste suddenly vpon them: for they haue digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feete.

  • Prov 24:2
    73%

    2For their heart imagineth destruction, and their lippes speake mischiefe.

  • Job 24:16
    73%

    16They digge through houses in the darke, which they marked for themselues in the daye: they knowe not the light.

  • Prov 24:15
    73%

    15Laye no waite, O wicked man, against the house of the righteous, and spoyle not his resting place.

  • Jer 9:8
    73%

    8Their tongue is as an arow shot out, and speaketh deceite: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in his heart hee layeth waite for him.

  • Ps 141:9
    73%

    9Keepe me from the snare, which they haue layde for me, and from the grennes of the workers of iniquitie.

  • Ps 35:7-8
    2 verses
    73%

    7For without cause they haue hid the pit & their net for me: without cause haue they digged a pit for my soule.

    8Let destruction come vpon him at vnwares, and let his net, that he hath laid priuilie, take him: let him fall into the same destruction.

  • Prov 12:6
    73%

    6The talking of the wicked is to lye in waite for blood: but the mouth of the righteous will deliuer them.

  • Job 18:8
    72%

    8For hee is taken in the net by his feete, and he walketh vpon the snares.

  • Prov 23:28
    72%

    28Also she lyeth in wait as for a praye, and she increaseth the transgressers among men.

  • Ps 94:21
    72%

    21They gather them together against the soule of the righteous, and condemne the innocent blood.

  • Prov 29:10
    72%

    10Bloodie men hate him that is vpright: but the iust haue care of his soule.

  • Hab 2:9
    72%

    9Ho, he that coueteth an euil couetousnesse to his house, that he may set his nest on hie, to escape from the power of euil.

  • Ps 37:14
    72%

    14The wicked haue drawen their sworde, and haue bent their bowe, to cast downe the poore and needie, and to slay such as be of vpright conuersation.

  • Mic 2:1
    72%

    1Wo vnto them, that imagine iniquitie, and worke wickednesse vpon their beddes: when the morning is light they practise it because their hande hath power.

  • Ps 140:2
    72%

    2Which imagine euill things in their heart, and make warre continually.

  • Ps 140:5
    72%

    5The proude haue layde a snare for me, and spred a nette with cordes in my pathway, and set grennes for me. Selah.

  • Ps 35:20
    72%

    20For they speake not as friendes: but they imagine deceitfull woordes against the quiet of the lande.

  • Job 24:14
    72%

    14The murtherer riseth earely & killeth the poore and the needie: and in the night he is as a theefe.

  • Ps 21:11
    71%

    11For they intended euill against thee, and imagined mischiefe, but they shall not preuaile.

  • Ps 69:22
    71%

    22Let their table be a snare before them, and their prosperitie their ruine.

  • Ps 9:15
    71%

    15The heathen are sunken downe in the pit that they made: in the nette that they hid, is their foote taken.

  • Prov 7:23
    71%

    23Till a dart strike through his liuer, as a bird hasteth to the snare, not knowing that he is in danger.