Proverbs 12:6

A Conservative Version

The words of the wicked lay in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

Cross References

Proverbs 14:3

In the mouth of a fool is a rod of pride, but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.

Jeremiah 5:26

For among my people are found wicked men. They watch as fowlers lay in wait. They set a trap; they catch men.

Isaiah 59:7

Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths.

Acts 23:15

Now therefore ye with the council report to the chief captain that tomorrow he may bring him down to you, as though going to inquire more accurately the things about him. And we, before he comes near, are prepared to kill him.

Acts 25:3

asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem, making an ambush to kill him on the way.

Acts 23:12

And when it became day, some of the Jews, having made a conspiracy, put themselves under a curse, saying neither to eat nor to drink until they would kill Paul.

Proverbs 12:5

The thoughts of the righteous are just. The counsels of the wicked are deceit.