Proverbs 12:6 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

⁶ The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: But the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them and the innocent ones [thus endangered].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ The words of the wicked are of lying in wait for blood; But the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

Common English Bible

⁶ The words of the wicked are a deathtrap, but the speech of those who do right rescues them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ The words of the impious lie in wait for blood. The mouth of the just shall free them.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood: the mouth of the just shall deliver them.

Proverbs 12:6 Cross References

Proverbs 12:5

The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.

Proverbs 14:3

In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.

Isaiah 59:7

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.

Jeremiah 5:26

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

Acts 23:12

And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.

Acts 23:15

Now therefore ye with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you tomorrow, as though ye would inquire something more perfectly concerning him: and we, or ever he come near, are ready to kill him.

Acts 25:3

and desired favor against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him.