Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.
General references
Bible References
Wicked
Proverbs 10:26
As vinegar to the teeth, And as smoke to the eyes, So is the slothful to those sending him.
Proverbs 26:6
He is cutting off feet, he is drinking injury, Who is sending things by the hand of a fool.
Jeremiah 23:13
And in prophets of Samaria I have seen folly, They have prophesied by Baal, And cause my people -- Israel -- to err.
Ezekiel 3:18
In My saying to the wicked: Thou dost surely die; and thou hast not warned him, nor hast spoken to warn the wicked from his wicked way, so that he doth live; he -- the wicked -- in his iniquity dieth, and his blood from thy hand I require.
Ezekiel 33:7
And thou, son of man, A watchman I gave thee to the house of Israel, And thou hast heard from My mouth a word, And thou hast warned them from Me.
2 Corinthians 2:17
for we are not as the many, adulterating the word of God, but as of sincerity -- but as of God; in the presence of God, in Christ we do speak.
General references
Proverbs 25:13
As a vessel of snow in a day of harvest, So is a faithful ambassador to those sending him, And the soul of his masters he refresheth.