Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.
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Bible References
Wicked
Proverbs 10:26
As vinegar to the teeth and as smoke to the eyes, so is the slothful one to those sending him.
Proverbs 26:6
He drank violence, cutting off the feet, sending words by the hand of the foolish one.
Jeremiah 23:13
And I saw folly in the prophets of Shomeron; they prophesied in Baal, and they will cause my people Israel to wander.
Ezekiel 3:18
In my saying to the unjust, Dying, thou shalt die; and thou admonished him not, and thou spakest not to admonish the unjust from his way of injustice to preserve him alive; this unjust one shall die in his iniquity, and his blood I will seek from thy hand.
Ezekiel 33:7
And thou son of man, I gave thee a watchman to the house of Israel; and thou heardest the word from my mouth, and thou didst warn them from me.
2 Corinthians 2:17
For we are not as the many adulterating the word of God: but as of purity, but as of God, before the face of God speak we in Christ.
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Proverbs 25:13
As the cold of snow in the day of harvest a faithful messenger to those sending him: he shall restore the soul of his lord.