Trap

Traps used in hunting and warfare

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Kinds of traps

Words

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Actions

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Temptation

1 Timothy 6:9 NKJV

But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition.

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Evil times

Ecclesiastes 9:12 NKJV

For man also does not know his time: Like fish taken in a cruel net, Like birds caught in a snare, So the sons of men are snared in an evil time, When it falls suddenly upon them.

Fear of other people

Proverbs 29:25 NKJV

The fear of man brings a snare, But whoever trusts in the Lord shall be safe.

Wisdom is alert to traps

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Those who trap others have evil hearts

Isaiah 32:7 NKJV

Also the schemes of the schemer are evil; He devises wicked plans To destroy the poor with lying words, Even when the needy speaks justice.

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Traps prepared by sinners

Against innocent people

Psalm 38:12 NKJV

Those also who seek my life lay snares for me; Those who seek my hurt speak of destruction, And plan deception all the day long.

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Against God

Psalm 2:1–2 NKJV

Why do the nations rage, And the people plot a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, And the rulers take counsel together, Against the Lord and against His Anointed, saying,

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Against Jesus Christ

Matthew 22:15 NKJV

Then the Pharisees went and plotted how they might entangle Him in His talk.

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Against the truth

Hosea 9:8 NKJV

The watchman of Ephraim is with my God; But the prophet is a fowler’s snare in all his ways— Enmity in the house of his God.

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The wicked caught in their own traps

Proverbs 28:10 NKJV

Whoever causes the upright to go astray in an evil way, He himself will fall into his own pit; But the blameless will inherit good.

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The devil sets traps

1 Timothy 3:7 NKJV

Moreover he must have a good testimony among those who are outside, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

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God sets traps for the wicked

Jeremiah 50:24 NKJV

You have indeed been trapped, O Babylon, And you were not aware; You have been found and also caught, Because you have contended against the Lord.

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God frees his people from traps

Psalm 91:3 NKJV

Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler And from the perilous pestilence.

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God forbids the trapping of the innocent

Zechariah 8:17 NKJV

Let none of you think evil in your heart against your neighbor; And do not love a false oath. For all these are things that I hate,’ Says the Lord.”

The gospel does not trap people by deception

1 Thessalonians 2:3 NKJV

For our exhortation did not come from error or uncleanness, nor was it in deceit.

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