Proverbs 16:29

A violent person lures a neighbor into a harmful path. It matters because the wicked seek to draw others into their evil ways.

Cross-references · 10

• Prov 2:12–15to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things;
• Prov 12:26A righteous person is cautious in friendship, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.
• 2 Pet 3:17You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.
• Prov 3:31Don’t envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways.
• Prov 1:10–14My son, if sinners entice you, don’t consent.
• 1 Sam 22:7–9Saul said to his servants who stood around him, “Hear now, you Benjamites! Will the son of Jesse give everyone of you fields and vineyards? Will he make you all captains of thousands and captains of hundreds,
• 1 Sam 19:11Saul sent messengers to David’s house, to watch him, and to kill him in the morning. Michal, David’s wife, told him, saying, “If you don’t save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.”
• Neh 6:13He hired so that I would be afraid, do so, and sin, and that they might have material for an evil report, that they might reproach me.
• 1 Sam 19:17Saul said to Michal, “Why have you deceived me thus, and let my enemy go, so that he is escaped?” Michal answered Saul, “He said to me, ‘Let me go! Why should I kill you?’”
• 1 Sam 23:19–21Then the Ziphites came up to Saul to Gibeah, saying, “Doesn’t David hide himself with us in the strongholds in the woods, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the desert?

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