Proverbs 1:16

New International Version

for their feet rush into evil, they are swift to shed blood.

Cross References

Genesis 37:20

“Come now, let’s kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns and say that a ferocious animal devoured him. Then we’ll see what comes of his dreams.”

Proverbs 1:17

How useless to spread a net where every bird can see it!

Proverbs 12:6

The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them.

Proverbs 4:16

For they cannot rest until they do evil; they are robbed of sleep till they make someone stumble.

Proverbs 6:17

haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

Proverbs 6:18

a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil,

Isaiah 59:7

Their feet rush into sin; they are swift to shed innocent blood. They pursue evil schemes; acts of violence mark their ways.

Romans 3:5

But if our unrighteousness brings out God’s righteousness more clearly, what shall we say? That God is unjust in bringing his wrath on us? (I am using a human argument.)

1 Samuel 19:10

Saul tried to pin him to the wall with his spear, but David eluded him as Saul drove the spear into the wall. That night David made good his escape.