Proverbs 12:6
The words of wicked people are an ambush waiting for a chance to kill, 1 but the words of the upright keep them safe. 1
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5The plans of the righteous are just, 1 but the advice of the wicked is deceitful. 1
Cross References
2 Samuel 17:1Then Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Now let me choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue David tonight.
Esther 7:4For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, killed, and annihilated. If we had only been sold into slavery, as male and female slaves, I would have kept quiet, for no such distress as this would justify disturbing the king.”
Proverbs 14:3From the mouth of a fool comes an offshoot of his pride, 1 but the lips of the wise will preserve them. 1
Jeremiah 5:26For wicked men are found with my people. They watch as someone crouches to capture birds; 1 they set a trap and catch people. 1
Acts 23:12When it became day, some Jews formed a conspiracy and called a curse down upon themselves with an oath not to eat nor drink anything until they had killed Paul.
Acts 25:3and asked him for a favor that would put Paul in danger—that Festus might summon Paul to Jerusalem so that they could 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 →