Proverbs 1:11

Tree of Life Version

Suppose they say: “Come with us! Let’s lie in wait for blood! Let’s ambush the innocent— for no reason!

Cross References

Psalm 17:12

like a lion eager to tear to pieces, like a young lion crouching in cover.

Psalm 35:7

For without cause they hid their net for me, and without cause they dug a pit for my soul.

Psalm 56:6

All day they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.

Proverbs 1:16

for their feet run to evil and they are swift to shed blood.

Proverbs 1:18

But they lie in wait for their own blood. They ambush their own lives.

Proverbs 12:6

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

Proverbs 24:15

Do not lurk like the wicked near the dwelling of the righteous. Do not assault his home.

Proverbs 29:24

An accomplice of a thief is his own enemy. He hears the oath but says nothing.

Proverbs 30:14

There is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose molars are knives, to devour the poor from the earth and the needy from among humanity.

Jeremiah 11:19

But I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter. I did not know they had devised plots against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit. Let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name will be no more remembered.”

Jeremiah 5:26

For among My people are wicked men, watching like bait-layers lying in wait. They set a trap—they catch men.

Micah 7:2

The pious have perished from the land, there is none upright among mankind. All of them lie in wait for blood. A man hunts his brother with a net.

John 15:25

So is fulfilled the word written in their Scripture, ‘They hated Me for no reason.’

Acts 23:15

So now you and the Sanhedrin serve notice to the commander to bring him down to you—like you are about to investigate his case more thoroughly. But we are ready to kill him before he comes near.”

Acts 25:3

asking a favor—to have Paul sent to Jerusalem, planning an ambush to kill him on the road.