Proverbs 12:6

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Proverbs 12:4–8 · Berean Standard Bible

4 A wife of noble character is her husband’s crown, but she who causes shame is like decay in his bones.

5 The plans of the righteous are just, but the counsel of the wicked leads to deceit.

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

7 The wicked are overthrown and perish, but the house of the righteous will stand.

8 A man is praised according to his wisdom, but a twisted mind is despised.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Proverbs 1:11

If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause,

Proverbs 1:12

let us swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those descending into the Pit.

Proverbs 1:13

We will find all manner of precious goods; we will fill our houses with plunder.

Proverbs 1:14

Throw in your lot with us; let us all share one purse”—

Proverbs 1:15

my son, do not walk the road with them or set foot upon their path.

Proverbs 1:16

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

Proverbs 1:17

How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it!

Proverbs 1:18

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

Proverbs 1:19

Such is the fate of all who are greedy, whose unjust gain takes the lives of its possessors.

2 Samuel 17:1

Furthermore, Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me choose twelve thousand men and set out tonight in pursuit of David.

2 Samuel 17:2

I will attack him while he is weak and weary; I will throw him into a panic, and all the people with him will flee; I will strike down only the king

2 Samuel 17:3

and bring all the people back to you as a bride returning to her husband. You seek the life of only one man; then all the people will be at peace.”

2 Samuel 17:4

This proposal seemed good to Absalom and all the elders of Israel.

Isaiah 59:7

Their feet run to evil; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and destruction lie in their wake.

Jeremiah 5:26

For among My people are wicked men; they watch like fowlers lying in wait; they set a trap to catch men.

Micah 7:1

Woe is me! For I am like one gathering summer fruit at the gleaning of the vineyard; there is no cluster to eat, no early fig that I crave.

Micah 7:2

The godly man has perished from the earth; there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; they hunt one another with a net.

Acts 23:12

When daylight came, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they had killed Paul.

Acts 23:15

Now then, you and the Sanhedrin petition the commander to bring him down to you on the pretext of examining his case more carefully. We are ready to kill him on the way.”

Acts 25:3

to grant them a concession against Paul by summoning him to Jerusalem, because they were preparing an ambush to kill him along the way.

Proverbs 14:3

The proud speech of a fool brings a rod to his back, but the lips of the wise protect them.

Esther 4:7

and Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, including the exact amount of money that Haman had promised to pay into the royal treasury in order to destroy the Jews.

Esther 4:8

Mordecai also gave Hathach a copy of the written decree issued in Susa for the destruction of the Jews, to show and explain to Esther, urging her to approach the king, implore his favor, and plead before him for her people.

Esther 4:9

So Hathach went back and relayed Mordecai’s response to Esther.

Esther 4:10

Then Esther spoke to Hathach and instructed him to tell Mordecai,

Esther 4:11

“All the royal officials and the people of the king’s provinces know that one law applies to every man or woman who approaches the king in the inner court without being summoned—that he be put to death. Only if the king extends the gold scepter may that person live. But I have not been summoned to appear before the king for the past thirty days.”

Esther 4:12

When Esther’s words were relayed to Mordecai,

Esther 4:13

he sent back to her this reply: “Do not imagine that because you are in the king’s palace you alone will escape the fate of all the Jews.

Esther 4:14

For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows if perhaps you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”

Esther 7:4

For my people and I have been sold out to destruction, death, and annihilation. If we had merely been sold as menservants and maidservants, I would have remained silent, because no such distress would justify burdening the king.”

Esther 7:5

Then King Xerxes spoke up and asked Queen Esther, “Who is this, and where is the one who would devise such a scheme?”

Esther 7:6

Esther replied, “The adversary and enemy is this wicked man—Haman!” And Haman stood in terror before the king and queen.