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 into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
• Prov 4:5–6Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don’t forget, neither swerve from the words of my mouth.
• 1 Jn 2:27As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.
• 1 Tim 4:1–3But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,
• Acts 20:30Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.
• Job 8:13So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man shall perish,
• 2 Pet 3:16–18as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.
• Prov 6:23–24For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,
• Ps 55:20–21He raises his hands against his friends. He has violated his covenant.
• Ps 55:12For it was not an enemy who insulted me, then I could have endured it. Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself up against me, then I would have hidden myself from him.
• 1 Jn 2:21I have not written to you because you don’t know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.
• 2 Pet 2:1–3But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.
• 2 Cor 11:13–15For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.
• 1 Kgs 22:20–23Yahweh said, ‘Who will entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth Gilead?’ One said one thing; and another said another.
• Matt 15:5–14But you say, ‘Whoever may tell his father or his mother, “Whatever help you might otherwise have gotten from me is a gift devoted to God,”
• 1 Kgs 22:6Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, “Should I go against Ramoth Gilead to battle, or should I refrain?” They said, “Go up; for the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king.”
• Matt 7:15“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.
• Job 34:30that the godless man may not reign, that there be no one to ensnare the people.
• Eph 4:13–14until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;
• 2 Th 2:8–10Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will kill with the breath of his mouth, and destroy by the manifestation of his coming;
• 1 Kgs 13:18–22He said to him, “I also am a prophet as you are; and an angel spoke to me by Yahweh’s word, saying, ‘Bring him back with you into your house, that he may eat bread and drink water.’” He lied to him.
• Mark 13:22–23For there will arise false christs and false prophets, and will show signs and wonders, that they may lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.
• Mark 13:14But when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains,

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