Proverbs 1:11
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause,”
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“If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause,”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:”
King James Version · Public Domain“If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood; Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause;”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“If they say, `Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Proverbs 1:11 — 19 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 10:8He lies in wait near the villages; in ambush he slays the innocent; his eyes watch in stealth for the helpless.
- Psalms 17:12like a lion greedy for prey, like a young lion lurking in ambush.
- Psalms 35:7For without cause they laid their net for me; without reason they dug a pit for my soul.
- Psalms 56:6They conspire, they lurk, they watch my steps while they wait to take my life.
- Psalms 64:5They hold fast to their evil purpose; they speak of hiding their snares. “Who will see them?” they say.
- Proverbs 1:16For their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed blood.
- Proverbs 1:18But they lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives.
- Proverbs 12:6The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them.
- Proverbs 24:15Do not lie in wait, O wicked man, near the dwelling of the righteous; do not destroy his resting place.
- Proverbs 29:24A partner to a thief hates his own soul; he receives the oath, but does not testify.
- Proverbs 30:14there is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the oppressed from the earth and the needy from among men.
- Jeremiah 5:26For among My people are wicked men; they watch like fowlers lying in wait; they set a trap to catch men.
- Jeremiah 11:19For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”
- Jeremiah 18:18Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us denounce him and pay no heed to any of his words.”
- Micah 7:2The 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.
- Matthew 26:3At that time the chief priests and elders of the people assembled in the courtyard of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas,
- John 15:25But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated Me without reason.’
- Acts 23:15Now 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 25:3to grant them a concession against Paul by summoning him to Jerusalem, because they were preparing an ambush to kill him along the way.
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