Proverbs 12:6

English Standard Version 2016

The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright delivers them.

Cross References

Proverbs 14:3

By the mouth of a fool comes a rod for his back, but the lips of the wise will preserve them.

Jeremiah 5:26

For wicked men are found among my people; they lurk like fowlers lying in wait. They set a trap; they catch men.

Isaiah 59:7

Their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their highways.

Acts 23:15

Now therefore you, along with the council, give notice to the tribune to bring him down to you, as though you were going to determine his case more exactly. And we are ready to kill him before he comes near.”

Acts 25:3

asking as a favor against Paul that he summon him to Jerusalem—because they were planning an ambush to kill him on the way.

Acts 23:12

When it was day, the Jews made a plot and bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.

Proverbs 12:5

The thoughts of the righteous are just; the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.