Proverbs 1:11

Good News Translation

Suppose they say, “Come on; let's find someone to kill! Let's attack some innocent people for the fun of it!

Cross References

Psalm 17:12

They are like lions, waiting for me, wanting to tear me to pieces.

Psalm 35:7

Without any reason they laid a trap for me and dug a deep hole to catch me.

Psalm 56:6

They gather in hiding places and watch everything I do, hoping to kill me.

Proverbs 1:16

They can't wait to do something bad. They're always ready to kill.

Proverbs 1:18

but people like that are setting a trap for themselves, a trap in which they will die.

Proverbs 12:6

The words of the wicked are murderous, but the words of the righteous rescue those who are threatened.

Proverbs 24:15

Don't be like the wicked who scheme to rob honest people or to take away their homes.

Proverbs 29:24

A thief's partner is his own worst enemy. He will be punished if he tells the truth in court, and God will curse him if he doesn't.

Proverbs 30:14

There are people who take cruel advantage of the poor and needy; that is the way they make their living.

Jeremiah 11:19

I was like a trusting lamb taken out to be killed, and I did not know that it was against me that they were planning evil things. They were saying, “Let's chop down the tree while it is still healthy; let's kill him so that no one will remember him any more.”

Jeremiah 5:26

“Evildoers live among my people; they lie in wait like those who lay nets to catch birds, but they have set their traps to catch people.

Micah 7:2

There is not an honest person left in the land, no one loyal to God. Everyone is waiting for a chance to commit murder. Everyone hunts down their own people.

John 15:25

This, however, was bound to happen so that what is written in their Law may come true: ‘They hated me for no reason at all.’

Acts 23:15

Now then, you and the Council send word to the Roman commander to bring Paul down to you, pretending that you want to get more accurate information about him. But we will be ready to kill him before he ever gets here.”

Acts 25:3

to do them the favor of having Paul come to Jerusalem, for they had made a plot to kill him on the way.