Proverbs 1:11

The enticers invite the youth to ambush and harm the innocent. It matters because it exposes how sin disguises violence as exciting fellowship.

Cross-references · 17

• Prov 1:18but these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.
• Jer 5:26For among my people are found wicked men. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.
• Prov 12:6The words of the wicked are about lying in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them.
• Jer 18:18–20Then they said, “Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.”
• Acts 25:3asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the way.
• Ps 64:5–6They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, “Who will see them?”
• Ps 56:6They conspire and lurk, watching my steps, they are eager to take my life.
• Prov 30:14There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaws like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.
• Ps 10:8–10He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.
• Matt 26:3–4Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.
• Ps 35:7For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.
• Prov 1:16for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.
• John 15:25But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’
• Acts 23:15Now therefore, you with the council inform the commanding officer that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to judge his case more exactly. We are ready to kill him before he comes near.”
• Mic 7:2The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.
• Jer 11:19But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I didn’t know that they had devised devices against me, saying, “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”
• Ps 17:12He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

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