Proverbs 12:6
The words of the impious lie in wait for blood. The mouth of the just shall free them.
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In Context
5The thoughts of the just are judgments. And the counsels of the impious are dishonest.
7Turn from the impious, and they will not be. But the house of the just shall stand firm.
Cross References
2 Samuel 17:1Then Ahithophel said to Absalom: “I will choose for myself twelve thousand men, and rising up, I will pursue David this night.
Esther 7:4For I and my people have been handed over to be crushed, to be slain, and to perish. And if we were only being sold as servants and slaves, the evil might be tolerable, and I would have mourned in silence. But now our enemy is one whose cruelty overflows upon the king.”
Proverbs 14:3In the mouth of the foolish, there is a rod of arrogance. But the lips of the wise guard them.
Jeremiah 5:26For the impious are found among my people; they lie in ambush like fowlers setting snares, for they set traps to catch men.
Acts 23:12And when daylight arrived, some of the Jews gathered together and bound themselves with an oath, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.
Acts 25:3asking for favor against him, so that he would order him to be led to Jerusalem, where they were maintaining an ambush in order to kill him along the way.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 12:6
5 The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit. Note, 1. The word of God is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart, and judges them. We mistake if we imagine that thoughts are free. No, they are under the divine cognizance, and therefore under the divine command. 2. We ought to be observers of the thoughts and intents of our own hearts, and to judge of ourselves by them; for they are the first-born of the soul, that have most of its image undisguised. Right… Read the whole commentary →