Proverbs 12:6
"The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them."
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- Proverbs 14:3
"In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them."
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 5:26
"For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 1:11
"If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:"
Read in chapter → - Isaiah 59:7
"Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths."
Read in chapter → - 2 Samuel 17:1
"Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:"
Read in chapter → - Esther 4:7
"And Mordecai told him of all that had happened unto him, and of the sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king's treasuries for the Jews, to destroy them."
Read in chapter → - Acts 23:12
"And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul."
Read in chapter → - Esther 7:4
"For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage."
Read in chapter → - Acts 23:15
"Now therefore ye with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you to morrow, as though ye would enquire something more perfectly concerning him: and we, or ever he come near, are ready to kill him."
Read in chapter → - Acts 25:3
"And desired favour against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him."
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