Proverbs 12:5 {6}
Good News Translation
Honest people will treat you fairly; the wicked only want to deceive you.

New Revised Standard Version
The thoughts of the righteous are just; the advice of the wicked is treacherous.

Contemporary English Version
Good people have kind thoughts, but you should never trust the advice of someone evil.

New American Bible
The plans of the just are right; the designs of the wicked are deceit.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood: the mouth of the just shall deliver them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood: the mouth of the just shall deliver them.

Proverbs 11:23 Some distribute their own goods, and grow richer: others take away what is not their own, and are always in want.

Proverbs 24:9 The thought of a fool is sin: and the detractor is the abomination of men.

Psalm 119:15 I will meditate on thy commandments: and I will consider thy ways.

Psalm 139:23 Prove me, O God, and know my heart: examine me, and know my paths.

Isaiah 55:7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unjust man his thoughts, and let him return to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God: for he is bountiful to forgive.

Jeremiah 4:14 Wash thy heart from wickedness, O Jerusalem, that thou mayst be saved: how long shall hurtful thoughts abide in thee?

counsels

Psalm 12:2,3 They have spoken vain things, every one to his neighbour: with deceitful lips, and with a double heart have they spoken. . . .

Psalm 36:2-4 For in his sight he hath done deceitfully, that his iniquity may be found unto hatred. . . .

Psalm 41:6,7 And if he came in to see me, he spoke vain things: his heart gathered together iniquity to itself. He went out and spoke to the same purpose. . . .

Psalm 140:1-3 Unto the end, a psalm of David. [2] Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil man: rescue me from the unjust man. . . .

Matthew 2:3-8,16 And king Herod hearing this, was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. . . .

Matthew 26:4 And they consulted together that by subtilty they might apprehend Jesus and put him to death.

1 Corinthians 4:5 Therefore, judge not before the time: until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts. And then shall every man have praise from God.

2 Corinthians 4:2 But we renounce the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness nor adulterating the word of God: but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience, in the sight of God.

Context
Loving Discipline and Knowledge
4The thoughts of the just are judgments: and the counsels of the wicked are deceitful. 5The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood: the mouth of the just shall deliver them.6Turn the wicked, and they shall not be: but the house of the just shall stand firm.…
Cross References
Proverbs 12:4
The thoughts of the just are judgments: and the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.

Proverbs 12:6
Turn the wicked, and they shall not be: but the house of the just shall stand firm.

Proverbs 12:4
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