Proverbs 16:29

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

A violent person entices his neighbor, and then leads him down a path that is terrible.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 19:11 : 11 Saul sent messengers to David’s house to guard it and to kill him in the morning. Then David’s wife Michal told him,“If you do not save yourself tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!”
  • 1 Sam 19:17 : 17 Saul said to Michal,“Why have you deceived me this way by sending my enemy away? Now he has escaped!” Michal replied to Saul,“He said to me,‘Help me get away or else I will kill you!’”
  • 1 Sam 22:7-9 : 7 Saul said to his servants who were stationed around him,“Listen up, you Benjaminites! Is Jesse’s son giving fields and vineyards to all of you? Or is he making all of you commanders and officers? 8 For all of you have conspired against me! No one informs me when my own son makes an agreement with this son of Jesse! Not one of you feels sorry for me or informs me that my own son has commissioned my own servant to hide in ambush against me, as is the case today!” 9 But Doeg the Edomite, who had stationed himself with the servants of Saul, replied,“I saw this son of Jesse come to Ahimelech son of Ahitub at Nob.
  • 1 Sam 23:19-21 : 19 Then the Ziphites went up to Saul at Gibeah and said,“Isn’t David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh on the hill of Hakilah, south of Jeshimon? 20 Now at your own discretion, O king, come down. Delivering him into the king’s hand will be our responsibility.” 21 Saul replied,“May you be blessed by the LORD, for you have had compassion on me.
  • Neh 6:13 : 13 He had been hired to scare me so that I would do this and thereby sin. They would thus bring reproach on me and I would be discredited.
  • Prov 1:10-14 : 10 Admonition to Avoid Easy but Unjust Riches My child, if sinners try to entice you, do not consent! 11 If they say,“Come with us! We will lie in wait to shed blood; we will ambush an innocent person capriciously. 12 We will swallow them alive like Sheol, those full of vigor like those going down to the Pit. 13 We will seize all kinds of precious wealth; we will fill our houses with plunder. 14 Join with us! We will all share equally in what we steal.”
  • Prov 2:12-15 : 12 to deliver you from the way of the wicked, from those speaking perversity, 13 who leave the upright paths to walk on the dark ways, 14 who delight in doing evil, they rejoice in perverse evil; 15 whose paths are morally crooked, and who are devious in their ways;
  • Prov 3:31 : 31 Do not envy a violent man, and do not choose any of his ways;
  • Prov 12:26 : 26 The righteous person is cautious in his friendship, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.
  • 2 Pet 3:17 : 17 Therefore, dear friends, since you have been forewarned, be on your guard that you do not get led astray by the error of these unprincipled men and fall from your firm grasp on the truth.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 16:27-28
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    27A wicked scoundrel digs up evil, and his slander is like a scorching fire.

    28A perverse person spreads dissension, and a gossip separates the closest friends.

  • Prov 16:30
    77%

    30The one who winks his eyes devises perverse things, and one who compresses his lips has accomplished evil.

  • Prov 12:26
    76%

    26The righteous person is cautious in his friendship, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

  • Prov 29:5-6
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    76%

    5The one who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his steps.

    6In the transgression of an evil person there is a snare, but a righteous person can sing and rejoice.

  • Prov 29:22
    75%

    22An angry person stirs up dissension, and a wrathful person is abounding in transgression.

  • Prov 17:18-20
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    18The one who lacks sense strikes hands in pledge, and puts up financial security for his neighbor.

    19The one who loves a quarrel loves transgression; whoever builds his gate high seeks destruction.

    20The one who has a perverse heart does not find good, and the one who is deceitful in speech falls into trouble.

  • Prov 26:18-19
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    74%

    18Like a madman who shoots firebrands and deadly arrows,

    19so is a person who has deceived his neighbor, and said,“Was I not only joking?”

  • Prov 17:11
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    11An evil person seeks only rebellion, and so a cruel messenger will be sent against him.

  • Prov 6:14
    74%

    14he plots evil with perverse thoughts in his heart, he spreads contention at all times.

  • Prov 6:12
    74%

    12A worthless and wicked person walks around saying perverse things;

  • Prov 1:10-11
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    73%

    10Admonition to Avoid Easy but Unjust Riches My child, if sinners try to entice you, do not consent!

    11If they say,“Come with us! We will lie in wait to shed blood; we will ambush an innocent person capriciously.

  • Prov 21:29
    73%

    29A wicked person has put on a bold face, but as for the upright, he establishes his ways.

  • Prov 1:15-16
    2 verses
    73%

    15My child, do not go down their way, withhold yourself from their path;

    16for they are eager to inflict harm, and they hasten to shed blood.

  • Prov 25:17-18
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    73%

    17Don’t set foot too frequently in your neighbor’s house, lest he become weary of you and hate you.

    18Like a club or a sword or a sharp arrow, so is the one who testifies against his neighbor as a false witness.

  • Prov 4:14-15
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    73%

    14Do not enter the path of the wicked or walk in the way of those who are evil.

    15Avoid it, do not go on it; turn away from it, and go on.

  • Prov 3:29-31
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    73%

    29Do not plot evil against your neighbor when he dwells by you unsuspectingly.

    30Do not accuse anyone without legitimate cause, if he has not treated you wrongly.

    31Do not envy a violent man, and do not choose any of his ways;

  • Prov 21:10
    73%

    10The appetite of the wicked has desired evil; his neighbor is shown no favor in his eyes.

  • Prov 28:10
    73%

    10The one who leads the upright astray in an evil way will himself fall into his own pit, but the blameless will inherit what is good.

  • Ps 140:11
    72%

    11A slanderer will not endure on the earth; calamity will hunt down a violent man and strike him down.

  • Ps 28:3
    72%

    3Do not drag me away with evil men, with those who behave wickedly, who talk so friendly to their neighbors, while they plan to harm them!

  • Prov 2:12
    72%

    12to deliver you from the way of the wicked, from those speaking perversity,

  • Prov 22:24-25
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    72%

    24Do not make friends with an angry person, and do not associate with a wrathful person,

    25lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.

  • Ps 36:3
    72%

    3The words he speaks are sinful and deceitful; he does not care about doing what is wise and right.

  • Isa 29:21
    72%

    21those who bear false testimony against a person, who entrap the one who arbitrates at the city gate and deprive the innocent of justice by making false charges.

  • Prov 24:8
    72%

    8The one who plans to do evil will be called a scheming person.

  • Prov 13:2
    72%

    2From the fruit of his speech a person eats good things, but the treacherous desire the fruit of violence.

  • Prov 17:23
    72%

    23A wicked person receives a bribe secretly to pervert the ways of justice.

  • Prov 6:19
    72%

    19a false witness who pours out lies, and a person who spreads discord among family members.

  • Prov 24:15
    72%

    15Do not lie in wait like the wicked against the place where the righteous live; do not assault his home.

  • Prov 17:13
    72%

    13As for the one who repays evil for good, evil will not leave his house.

  • Prov 11:27
    71%

    27The one who diligently seeks good seeks favor, but the one who searches for evil– it will come to him.

  • Prov 14:17
    71%

    17A person who has a quick temper will do foolish things, and a person with crafty schemes will be hated.

  • Prov 28:17
    71%

    17The one who is tormented by the murder of another will flee to the pit; let no one support him.

  • Prov 15:18-19
    2 verses
    71%

    18A quick-tempered person stirs up dissension, but one who is slow to anger calms a quarrel.

    19The way of the sluggard is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is like a highway.

  • Prov 2:15
    71%

    15whose paths are morally crooked, and who are devious in their ways;

  • Prov 19:3
    71%

    3A person’s folly subverts his way, and his heart rages against the LORD.

  • Prov 21:7
    71%

    7The violence done by the wicked will drag them away because they have refused to do what is right.