Proverbs 6:17 {18}
New Revised Standard Version
haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

Contemporary English Version
Those who are too proud or tell lies or murder,

New American Bible
Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

Douay-Rheims Bible
A heart that deviseth wicked plots, feet that are swift to run into mischief,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

A heart that deviseth wicked plots, feet that are swift to run into mischief,

a proud look

Proverbs 30:13 A generation, whose eyes are lofty, and their eyelids lifted up on high.

Psalm 10:4 The sinner hath provoked the Lord according to the multitude of his wrath he will not seek him:

Psalm 18:27 For thou wilt save the humble people; but wilt bring down the eyes of the proud.

Psalm 73:6-8 Therefore pride hath held them fast: they are covered with their iniquity and their wickedness. . . .

Psalm 101:5 The man that in private detracted his neighbour, him did I persecute. With him that had a proud eye, and an unsatiable heart, I would not eat.

Psalm 131:1 A gradual canticle of David. Lord, my heart is not exalted: nor are my eyes lofty. Neither have I walked in great matters, nor in wonderful things above me.

Isaiah 2:11 The lofty eyes of man are humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be made to stoop: and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

Isaiah 3:9,16 The shew of their countenance hath answered them: and they have proclaimed abroad their sin as Sodom, and they have not hid it: woe to their souls, for evils are rendered to them. . . .

1 Peter 5:5 In like manner, ye young men, be subject to the ancients. And do you all insinuate humility one to another: for God resisteth the proud, but to the humble he giveth grace.

lying

Proverbs 12:22 Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord: but they that deal faithfully, please him.

Proverbs 14:5 A faithful witness will not lie: but a deceitful witness uttereth a lie.

Proverbs 26:28 A deceitful tongue loveth not truth: and a slippery mouth worketh ruin.

Psalm 5:6 Thou hatest all the workers of iniquity: thou wilt destroy all that speak a lie. The bloody and the deceitful man the Lord will abhor.

Psalm 120:2,3 O Lord, deliver my soul from wicked lips, and a deceitful tongue. . . .

Hosea 4:1,2 Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel, for the Lord shall enter into judgment with the inhabitants of the land: for there is no truth, and there is no mercy, and there is no knowledge of God in the land. . . .

John 8:44 You are of your father the devil: and the desires of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning: and he stood not in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.

Revelation 22:15 Without are dogs and sorcerers and unchaste and murderers and servers of idols and every one that loveth and maketh a lie.

and hands

Proverbs 1:11 Let us swallow him up alive like hell, and whole as one that goeth down into the pit.

Deuteronomy 27:25 Cursed be he that taketh gifts, to slay an innocent person: and all the people shall say: Amen.

2 Kings 24:4 And for the innocent blood that he shed, filling Jerusalem with innocent blood: and therefore the Lord would not be appeased.

Isaiah 1:15 And when you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away my eyes from you: and when you multiply prayer, I will not hear: for your hands are full of blood.

Isaiah 59:3-6 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity: your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue uttereth iniquity. . . .

Context
Warnings Against Foolishness
16Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, 17A heart that deviseth wicked plots, feet that are swift to run into mischief,18A deceitful witness that uttereth lies, and him that soweth discord among brethren.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 19:10
That innocent blood may not be shed in the midst of the land which the Lord thy God will give thee to possess, lest thou be guilty of blood.

Psalm 18:27
For thou wilt save the humble people; but wilt bring down the eyes of the proud.

Psalm 31:18
Let deceitful lips be made dumb. Which speak iniquity against the just, with pride and abuse.

Psalm 101:5
The man that in private detracted his neighbour, him did I persecute. With him that had a proud eye, and an unsatiable heart, I would not eat.

Psalm 120:2
O Lord, deliver my soul from wicked lips, and a deceitful tongue.

Proverbs 1:16
But a net is spread in vain before the eyes of them that have wings.

Proverbs 6:16
Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

Proverbs 12:22
Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord: but they that deal faithfully, please him.

Proverbs 17:7
Eloquent words do not become a fool, nor lying lips a prince.

Proverbs 21:4
Haughtiness of the eyes is the enlarging of the heart: the lamp of the wicked is sin.

Proverbs 28:17
A man that doth violence to the blood of a person, if he flee even to the pit, no man will stay him.

Proverbs 30:13
A generation, whose eyes are lofty, and their eyelids lifted up on high.

Isaiah 1:15
And when you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away my eyes from you: and when you multiply prayer, I will not hear: for your hands are full of blood.

Isaiah 59:7
Their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are unprofitable thoughts: wasting and destruction are in their ways.

Jeremiah 26:15
But know ye, and understand, that if you put me to death, you will shed innocent blood against your own selves, and against this city, and the inhabitants thereof. For in truth the Lord sent me to you, to speak all these words in your hearing.

Proverbs 6:16
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