Proverbs 6:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

You are snared by the words of your mouth, you are taken by the words of your mouth.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 12:13 : 13 The wicked is ensnared by the transgression of his lips, but the just will come out of trouble.
  • Prov 18:7 : 7 A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of 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%

    1 My son, if you become surety for your friend, if you have shaken hands with a stranger,

  • Prov 6:3
    79%

    3 Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, when you have come into the hand of your friend; go, humble yourself, and make sure your friend.

  • Job 15:5-6
    2 verses
    76%

    5 For your mouth declares your iniquity, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.

    6 Your own mouth condemns you, not I; yes, your own lips testify against you.

  • Ps 50:19-20
    2 verses
    75%

    19 You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit.

    20 You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.

  • Prov 22:25-26
    2 verses
    75%

    25 Lest you learn his ways and get a snare to your soul.

    26 Do not be one of those who shake hands, or of those who are sureties for debts.

  • Prov 12:13-14
    2 verses
    74%

    13 The wicked is ensnared by the transgression of his lips, but the just will come out of trouble.

    14 A man will be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth, and the recompense of a man's hands will be rendered to him.

  • Job 18:8
    73%

    8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks upon a snare.

  • Prov 18:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

    6 A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calls for blows.

    7 A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.

  • Job 18:10
    73%

    10 The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

  • Job 22:10
    73%

    10 Therefore snares are all around you, and sudden fear troubles you;

  • Matt 12:37
    72%

    37 For by your words you shall be justified, and by your words you shall be condemned.

  • Prov 17:18
    72%

    18 A man lacking understanding shakes hands in a pledge, and becomes surety for his friend.

  • Job 36:17-18
    2 verses
    72%

    17 But you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on you.

    18 Because there is wrath, beware lest he takes you away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver you.

  • Job 6:27
    71%

    27 Yes, you overwhelm the fatherless, and you dig a pit for your friend.

  • Prov 23:8
    71%

    8 The morsel which you have eaten, you shall vomit up, and lose your sweet words.

  • Prov 6:24
    71%

    24 To keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

  • Prov 2:16
    71%

    16 To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the stranger who flatters with her words;

  • Eccl 10:12
    70%

    12 The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow him up.

  • Prov 6:21-22
    2 verses
    70%

    21 Bind them continually upon your heart, and tie them around your neck.

    22 When you go, it shall lead you; when you sleep, it shall keep you; and when you awake, it shall talk with you.

  • Eccl 5:6
    70%

    6 Do not let your mouth cause your flesh to sin, nor say before the angel that it was an error; why should God be angry at your voice and destroy the work of your hands?

  • Prov 6:26
    70%

    26 For by means of a harlot a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

  • Prov 30:6
    70%

    6 Do not add to His words, lest He rebuke you, and you be found a liar.

  • Jer 50:24
    70%

    24 I have set a trap for you, and you are also caught, O Babylon, and you were not aware: you are found, and also caught, because you have fought against the LORD.

  • Prov 22:18
    70%

    18 For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you; they shall all be ready on your lips.

  • Prov 5:22
    70%

    22 His own iniquities shall capture the wicked, and he shall be held with the cords of his sins.

  • Prov 5:2
    69%

    2 That you may keep discretion, and that your lips may preserve knowledge.

  • Prov 20:16
    69%

    16 Take his garment who is surety for a stranger, and hold it in pledge for a foreign woman.

  • Prov 21:23
    69%

    23 Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

  • Prov 2:1
    69%

    1 My son, if you will receive my words and hide my commandments with you;

  • Prov 22:5
    69%

    5 Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse; he who guards his soul shall be far from them.

  • Job 15:13
    69%

    13 That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

  • Isa 29:21
    69%

    21 That make a man an offender by a word, and lay a snare for him that reproves in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nothing.

  • Mic 7:5
    69%

    5 Do not trust in a friend, put no confidence in a guide: keep the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your bosom.

  • Prov 6:5
    69%

    5 Deliver yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, and like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

  • Ps 52:4
    69%

    4 You love all devouring words, O deceitful tongue.

  • Prov 20:25
    69%

    25 It is a snare for a man to devour what is holy, and afterward to reconsider his vows.

  • Ps 59:12
    68%

    12 For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride, and for the cursing and lying which they speak.

  • Prov 7:5
    68%

    5 That they may keep you from the strange woman, from the stranger who flatters with her words.

  • Prov 11:15
    68%

    15 He who is surety for a stranger shall suffer for it, and he who hates suretyship is secure.

  • Prov 27:2
    68%

    2 Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.

  • Ps 17:4
    68%

    4 Concerning the works of men, by the word of your lips I have kept myself from the paths of the destroyer.

  • Prov 1:10
    68%

    10 My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent.

  • Prov 18:21
    68%

    21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.