Bible Verses Like Proverbs 12:6

Proverbs 14:3 - In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.   (Verses like Proverbs 14:3)

2 Samuel 17:1-4 - Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:And I will come upon him while he is weary and weak handed, and will make him afraid: and all the people that are with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only:And I will bring back all the people unto thee: the man whom thou seekest is as if all returned: so all the people shall be in peace.And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.   (Verses like 2 Samuel 17:1)

Esther 4:7-14 - 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.Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given at Shushan to destroy them, to shew it unto Esther, and to declare it unto her, and to charge her that she should go in unto the king, to make supplication unto him, and to make request before him for her people.And Hatach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.Again Esther spake unto Hatach, and gave him commandment unto Mordecai;All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law of his to put him to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days.And they told to Mordecai Esther's words.Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews.For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?   (Verses like Esther 4:7)

Esther 7:4-6 - 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.Then the king Ahasuerus answered and said unto Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in his heart to do so?And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.   (Verses like Esther 7:4)

Proverbs 1:11-19 - If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.   (Verses like Proverbs 1:11)

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.   (Verses like Isaiah 59:7)

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.   (Verses like Jeremiah 5:26)

Micah 7:1-2 - Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit.The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.   (Verses like Micah 7:1)

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.   (Verses like Acts 23:12)

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.   (Verses like Acts 23:15)

Acts 25:3 - And desired favour against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him.   (Verses like Acts 25:3)