Proverbs 11:9

The godless can ruin a neighbor with his words, but the righteous are delivered through knowledge. Speech can destroy or, with wisdom, protect.

Cross-references · 23

• Prov 2:10–16For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will delight your soul.
• Prov 4:5–6Get wisdom, get understanding; do not forget my words or turn from them.
• 1 Jn 2:27And as for you, the anointing you received from Him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But just as His true and genuine anointing teaches you about all things, so remain in Him as you have been taught.
• 1 Tim 4:1–3Now the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will abandon the faith to follow deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons,
• Acts 20:30Even from your own number, men will rise up and distort the truth to draw away disciples after them.
• Job 8:13Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so the hope of the godless will perish.
• 2 Pet 3:16–18He writes this way in all his letters, speaking in them about such matters. Some parts of his letters are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.
• Prov 6:23–24For this commandment is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way to life,
• Ps 55:20–21My companion attacks his friends; he violates his covenant.
• Ps 55:12For it is not an enemy who insults me; that I could endure. It is not a foe who rises against me; from him I could hide.
• 1 Jn 2:21I have not written to you because you lack knowledge of the truth, but because you have it, and because no lie comes from the truth.
• 2 Pet 2:1–3Now there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves.
• 2 Cor 11:13–15For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.
• 1 Kgs 22:20–23And the LORD said, ‘Who will entice Ahab to march up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ And one suggested this, and another that.
• Matt 15:5–14But you say that if anyone says to his father or mother, ‘Whatever you would have received from me is a gift devoted to God,’
• 1 Kgs 22:6So the king of Israel assembled the prophets, about four hundred men, and asked them, “Should I go to war against Ramoth-gilead, or should I refrain?” “Go up,” they replied, “and the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king.”
• Matt 7:15Beware of false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.
• Job 34:30that godless men should not rule or lay snares for the people.
• Eph 4:13–14until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God, as we mature to the full measure of the stature of Christ.
• 2 Th 2:8–10And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will slay with the breath of His mouth and annihilate by the majesty of His arrival.
• 1 Kgs 13:18–22Then the prophet replied, “I too am a prophet like you, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, ‘Bring him back with you to your house, so that he may eat bread and drink water.’” The old prophet was lying to him,
• Mark 13:22–23For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform signs and wonders that would deceive even the elect, if that were possible.
• Mark 13:14So when you see the abomination of desolation standing where it should not be (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.

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