Proverbs 12:6

Geneva Bible (1560)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 14:3 : 3 In the mouth of the foolish is the rod of pride: but the lippes of the wise preserue them.
  • Isa 59:7 : 7 Their feete runne to euill, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are wicked thoughts: desolation and destruction is in their paths.
  • Jer 5:26 : 26 For among my people are founde wicked persons, that lay waite as hee that setteth snares: they haue made a pit, to catch men.
  • 2 Sam 17:1-4 : 1 Moreouer Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me chuse out now twelue thousand men, & I will vp and follow after Dauid this night, 2 And I will come vpon him: for he is wearie, and weake handed: so I will feare him, and all the people that are with him, shall flee, and I will smite the King onely, 3 And I will bring againe all the people vnto thee, and when all shal returne, ( the man whome thou seekest being slaine ) all the people shalbe in peace. 4 And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the Elders of Israel.
  • Esth 4:7-9 : 7 And Mordecai tolde him of all that which had come vnto him, and of the summe of the siluer that Haman had promised to pay vnto the Kings treasures, because of the Iewes, for to destroy them. 8 Also he gaue him the copy of the writing and commission that was giuen at Shushan, to destroy them, that he might shewe it vnto Ester and declare it vnto her, and to charge her that she should goe in to the King, and make petition and supplication before him for her people. 9 So when Hatach came, he told Ester the wordes of Mordecai. 10 Then Ester sayde vnto Hatach, and commaunded him to say vnto Mordecai, 11 All the Kings seruants and the people of the Kings prouinces doe knowe, that whosoeuer, man or woman, that commeth to the King into the inner court, which is not called, there is a law of his, that he shall dye, except him to whom the King holdeth out the golden rodde, that he may liue. Now I haue not bene called to come vnto the King these thirtie dayes. 12 And they certified Mordecai of Esters wordes. 13 And Mordecai saide, that they should answere Ester thus, Thinke not with thy selfe that thou shalt escape in the Kings house, more then all the Iewes. 14 For if thou holdest thy peace at this time, comfort and deliuerance shall appeare to the Iewes out of another place, but thou and thy fathers house shall perish: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdome for such a time?
  • Esth 7:4-6 : 4 For we are solde, I, & my people, to be destroyed, to be slayne and to perish: but if we were solde for seruants, and for handmaides, I woulde haue helde my tongue: although the aduersarie could not recompense the Kings losse. 5 Then King Ahashuerosh answered, and said vnto the Queene Ester, Who is he? and where is he that presumeth to doe thus? 6 And Ester said, The aduersarie and enemie is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afrayde before the King and the Queene.
  • Prov 1:11-19 : 11 If they say, Come with vs, we will lay waite for blood, and lie priuilie for the innocent without a cause: 12 We wil swallow them vp aliue like a graue euen whole, as those that goe downe into the pit: 13 We shall finde all precious riches, and fill our houses with spoyle: 14 Cast in thy lot among vs: we will all haue one purse: 15 My sonne, walke not thou in the way with them: refraine thy foote from their path. 16 For their feete runne to euill, & make haste to shed blood. 17 Certainely as without cause the net is spred before the eyes of all that hath wing: 18 So they lay waite for blood and lie priuily for their liues. 19 Such are the wayes of euery one that is greedy of gaine: he would take away the life of the owners thereof.
  • Mic 7:1-2 : 1 Wo is me, for I am as the sommer gatherings, and as the grapes of the vintage: there is no cluster to eate: my soule desired the first ripe fruites. 2 The 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.
  • Acts 23:12 : 12 And when the day was come, certaine of the Iewes made an assemblie, and bounde themselues with a curse, saying, that they woulde neither eate nor drinke, till they had killed Paul.
  • Acts 23:15 : 15 Nowe therefore, ye and the Council signifie to the chiefe captaine, that hee bring him foorth vnto you to morow: as though you would know some thing more perfectly of him, and we, or euer he come neere, will be readie to kill him.
  • Acts 25:3 : 3 And desired fauour against him, that hee would send for him to Hierusalem: and they layd waite to kill him by the way.

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  • Prov 11:5-6
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    32The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.

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  • Prov 2:12
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    12And deliuer thee from the euill way, and from the man that speaketh froward things,

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    7The robberie of the wicked shall destroy them: for they haue refused to execute iudgement.

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    26The righteous is more excellent then his neighbour: but the way of the wicked will deceiue them.

  • Ps 5:6
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    18So they lay waite for blood and lie priuily for their liues.

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    2For the mouth of the wicked, and the mouth full of deceite are opened vpon me: they haue spoken to me with a lying tongue.

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

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  • Rom 3:15
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    15Their feete are swift to shead blood.

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    3The wordes of his mouth are iniquitie and deceit: hee hath left off to vnderstand and to doe good.

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

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

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    12For the rich men thereof are full of crueltie, & the inhabitants thereof haue spoken lyes, and their tongue is deceitfull in their mouth.