2 Samuel 23:6

New Living Translation

But the godless are like thorns to be thrown away, for they tear the hand that touches them.

Cross References

Genesis 3:18

It will grow thorns and thistles for you, though you will eat of its grains.

2 Samuel 20:1

There happened to be a troublemaker there named Sheba son of Bicri, a man from the tribe of Benjamin. Sheba blew a ram’s horn and began to chant: “Down with the dynasty of David! We have no interest in the son of Jesse. Come on, you men of Israel, back to your homes!”

Song of Solomon 2:2

Like a lily among thistles is my darling among young women.

Isaiah 27:4

My anger will be gone. If I find briers and thorns growing, I will attack them; I will burn them up—

Isaiah 33:12

Your people will be burned up completely, like thornbushes cut down and tossed in a fire.

Ezekiel 2:6

“Son of man, do not fear them or their words. Don’t be afraid even though their threats surround you like nettles and briers and stinging scorpions. Do not be dismayed by their dark scowls, even though they are rebels.

Micah 7:4

Even the best of them is like a brier; the most honest is as dangerous as a hedge of thorns. But your judgment day is coming swiftly now. Your time of punishment is here, a time of confusion.

Nahum 1:10

His enemies, tangled like thornbushes and staggering like drunks, will be burned up like dry stubble in a field.

Matthew 13:41

The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will remove from his Kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil.

Deuteronomy 13:13

that scoundrels among you are leading their fellow citizens astray by saying, ‘Let us go worship other gods’—gods you have not known before.

1 Samuel 2:12

Now the sons of Eli were scoundrels who had no respect for the Lord

1 Samuel 25:17

You need to know this and figure out what to do, for there is going to be trouble for our master and his whole family. He’s so ill-tempered that no one can even talk to him!”