Proverbs 1:11

Authorized King James Version (1611)

If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

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  • Prov 1:18 : 18 And they lay wait for their [own] blood; they lurk privily for their [own] lives.
  • Prov 12:6 : 6 ¶ The words of the wicked [are] to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
  • Jer 5:26 : 26 For among my people are found wicked [men]: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
  • Jer 11:19 : 19 But I [was] like a lamb [or] an ox [that] is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
  • Jer 18:18-20 : 18 ¶ Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words. 19 Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me. 20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, [and] to turn away thy wrath from them.
  • Mic 7:2 : 2 The good [man] is perished out of the earth: and [there is] none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
  • Matt 26:3-4 : 3 Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas, 4 And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill [him].
  • John 15:25 : 25 ‹But› [this cometh to pass], ‹that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.›
  • Acts 23:15 : 15 Now therefore ye with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you to morrow, as though ye would enquire something more perfectly concerning him: and we, or ever he come near, are ready to kill him.
  • Acts 25:3 : 3 And desired favour against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him.
  • Prov 30:14 : 14 [There is] a generation, whose teeth [are as] swords, and their jaw teeth [as] knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from [among] men.
  • Ps 10:8-9 : 8 He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor. 9 He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net. 10 He croucheth, [and] humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
  • Ps 17:12 : 12 Like as a lion [that] is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
  • Ps 35:7 : 7 For without cause have they hid for me their net [in] a pit, [which] without cause they have digged for my soul.
  • Ps 56:6 : 6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
  • Ps 64:5-6 : 5 They encourage themselves [in] an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them? 6 They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward [thought] of every one [of them], and the heart, [is] deep.
  • Prov 1:16 : 16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

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    12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

    13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:

    14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:

    15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

    16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

    17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

    18 And they lay wait for their [own] blood; they lurk privily for their [own] lives.

    19 So [are] the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; [which] taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

  • Prov 1:10
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    10 ¶ My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

  • Ps 94:21
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    21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

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    4 That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.

    5 They encourage themselves [in] an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?

  • Ps 10:8-9
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    8 He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.

    9 He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.

  • Rom 3:15
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    15 Their feet [are] swift to shed blood:

  • Ps 11:2
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    2 For, lo, the wicked bend [their] bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.

  • Jer 5:26
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    26 For among my people are found wicked [men]: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

  • Isa 59:7
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    7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts [are] thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction [are] in their paths.

  • Prov 4:15-17
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    15 Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.

    16 For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause [some] to fall.

    17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

  • Ps 56:6
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    6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.

  • Ps 37:32
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    32 The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.

  • Ps 55:15
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    15 Let death seize upon them, [and] let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness [is] in their dwellings, [and] among them.

  • Prov 16:29
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    29 ¶ A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way [that is] not good.

  • Ps 35:7-8
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    7 For without cause have they hid for me their net [in] a pit, [which] without cause they have digged for my soul.

    8 Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.

  • Jer 18:22
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    22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

  • Prov 24:15
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    15 ¶ Lay not wait, O wicked [man], against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:

  • Ps 28:3
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    3 Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief [is] in their hearts.

  • Prov 29:10
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    10 ¶ The bloodthirsty hate the upright: but the just seek his soul.

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    9 Keep me from the snares [which] they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.

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    3 For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not [for] my transgression, nor [for] my sin, O LORD.

  • Gen 37:20
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    20 Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.

  • Prov 12:6
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    6 ¶ The words of the wicked [are] to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

  • Prov 28:17
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    17 ¶ A man that doeth violence to the blood of [any] person shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him.

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    2 The good [man] is perished out of the earth: and [there is] none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.

    3 That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge [asketh] for a reward; and the great [man], he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.

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    11 There is [one] come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counsellor.

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    2 Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:

  • Josh 2:19
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    19 And it shall be, [that] whosoever shall go out of the doors of thy house into the street, his blood [shall be] upon his head, and we [will be] guiltless: and whosoever shall be with thee in the house, his blood [shall be] on our head, if [any] hand be upon him.

  • Job 18:10
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    10 The snare [is] laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

  • Ps 17:11
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    11 They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;

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  • Ps 37:14
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    14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, [and] to slay such as be of upright conversation.

  • Jer 18:18
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    18 ¶ Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.

  • Isa 29:21
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    21 That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.

  • Hos 6:9
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    9 And as troops of robbers wait for a man, [so] the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.

  • Job 24:14
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    14 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

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    27 Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.