Proverbs 12:6
The words of the wicked are about lying in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them.
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In Context
5The thoughts of the righteous are just, but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.
7The wicked are overthrown, and are no more, but the house of the righteous shall stand.
Cross References
2 Samuel 17:1Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me now choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David tonight.
Esther 7:4For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for male and female slaves, I would have held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king’s loss.”
Proverbs 14:3The fool’s talk brings a rod to his back, but the lips of the wise protect them.
Jeremiah 5:26For wicked men are found amongst my people. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.
Acts 23:12When it was day, some of the Jews banded together and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.
Acts 25:3asking a favour against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem, plotting to kill him on 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 →