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%

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

  • Prov 6:3
    79%

    3Do 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%

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

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

  • Ps 50:19-20
    2 verses
    75%

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

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

  • Prov 22:25-26
    2 verses
    75%

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

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

  • Prov 12:13-14
    2 verses
    74%

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

    14A 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%

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

  • Prov 18:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

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

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

  • Job 18:10
    73%

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

  • Job 22:10
    73%

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

  • Matt 12:37
    72%

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

  • Prov 17:18
    72%

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

  • Job 36:17-18
    2 verses
    72%

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

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

  • Job 6:27
    71%

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

  • Prov 23:8
    71%

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

  • Prov 6:24
    71%

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

  • Prov 2:16
    71%

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

  • Eccl 10:12
    70%

    12The 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%

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

    22When 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%

    6Do 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%

    26For 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%

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

  • Jer 50:24
    70%

    24I 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%

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

  • Prov 5:22
    70%

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

  • Prov 5:2
    69%

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

  • Prov 20:16
    69%

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

  • Prov 21:23
    69%

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

  • Prov 2:1
    69%

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

  • Prov 22:5
    69%

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

  • Job 15:13
    69%

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

  • Isa 29:21
    69%

    21That 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%

    5Do 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%

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

  • Ps 52:4
    69%

    4You love all devouring words, O deceitful tongue.

  • Prov 20:25
    69%

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

  • Ps 59:12
    68%

    12For 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%

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

  • Prov 11:15
    68%

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

  • Prov 27:2
    68%

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

  • Ps 17:4
    68%

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

  • Prov 1:10
    68%

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

  • Prov 18:21
    68%

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