Proverbs 5:22

American Standard Version (1901)

His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 7:15-16 : 15 He hath made a pit, and digged it, And is fallen into the ditch which he made. 16 His mischief shall return upon his own head, And his violence shall come down upon his own pate.
  • Ps 9:15 : 15 The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made: In the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
  • Prov 1:18 : 18 And these lay wait for their own blood; They lurk privily for their own lives.
  • Prov 1:31-32 : 31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, And be filled with their own devices. 32 For the backsliding of the simple shall slay them, And the careless ease of fools shall destroy them.
  • Prov 11:3 : 3 The integrity of the upright shall guide them; But the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.
  • Prov 11:5 : 5 The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way; But the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
  • Eccl 7:26 : 26 And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, [and] whose hands are bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her. [
  • Jer 2:19 : 19 Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.
  • Hos 4:11-14 : 11 Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the understanding. 12 My people ask counsel at their stock, and their staff declareth unto them; for the spirit of whoredom hath caused them to err, and they have played the harlot, [departing] from under their God. 13 They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters play the harlot, and your brides commit adultery. 14 I will not punish your daughters when they play the harlot, nor your brides when they commit adultery; for [the men] themselves go apart with harlots, and they sacrifice with the prostitutes; and the people that doth not understand shall be overthrown.
  • 1 Cor 5:9-9 : 9 I wrote unto you in my epistle to have no company with fornicators; 10 not at all [meaning] with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous and extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world:
  • Gal 5:19-21 : 19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these] : fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousies, wraths, factions, divisions, parties, 21 envyings, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; of which I forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you, that they who practise such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
  • Gal 6:7-8 : 7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. 8 For he that soweth unto his own flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth unto the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap eternal life.
  • Eph 5:5-6 : 5 For this ye know of a surety, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. 6 Let no man deceive you with empty words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience.
  • Heb 13:4 : 4 [ Let] marriage [be] had in honor among all, and [let] the bed [be] undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
  • Num 32:23 : 23 But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against Jehovah; and be sure your sin will find you out.

Similar Verses (AI)

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    7The steps of his strength shall be straitened, And his own counsel shall cast him down.

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    23He shall die for lack of instruction; And in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

  • Isa 5:18
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    18Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and sin as it were with a cart rope;

  • Prov 11:5-6
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    5The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way; But the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

    6The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them; But the treacherous shall be taken in their own iniquity.

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    10Whoso causeth the upright to go astray in an evil way, He shall fall himself into his own pit; But the perfect shall inherit good.

  • Ps 9:15-16
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    15The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made: In the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

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    11Woe unto the wicked! [it shall be] ill [with him] ; for what his hands have done shall be done unto him.

  • Ezek 18:26
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    26When the righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth therein; in his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.

  • Prov 5:21
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    21For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah; And he maketh level all his paths.

  • Prov 22:8
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    8He that soweth iniquity shall reap calamity; And the rod of his wrath shall fail.

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  • Job 22:5
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    5Is not thy wickedness great? Neither is there any end to thine iniquities.

  • Ezek 18:18
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    17But thou art full of the judgment of the wicked: Judgment and justice take hold [on thee] .

  • Ezek 33:18
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    18When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die therein.

  • Prov 6:15
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    15Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; On a sudden shall he be broken, and that without remedy.

  • Job 20:22
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    22In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: The hand of every one that is in misery shall come upon him.

  • Jer 5:25
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    25Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good from you.

  • Prov 13:6
    71%

    6Righteousness guardeth him that is upright in the way; But wickedness overthroweth the sinner.

  • Ps 35:8
    71%

    8Let destruction come upon him unawares; And let his net that he hath hid catch himself: With destruction let him fall therein.

  • Prov 21:18
    71%

    18The wicked is a ransom for the righteous; And the treacherous [cometh] in the stead of the upright.

  • Job 21:19-20
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    70%

    19[Ye say], God layeth up his iniquity for his children. Let him recompense it unto himself, that he may know it:

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    15He hath made a pit, and digged it, And is fallen into the ditch which he made.

    16His mischief shall return upon his own head, And his violence shall come down upon his own pate.

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    12The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is laid up in store.

  • Prov 1:31
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    31Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, And be filled with their own devices.

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    70%

    27The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, And the earth shall rise up against him.

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    23And he hath brought upon them their own iniquity, And will cut them off in their own wickedness; Jehovah our God will cut them off.

  • Prov 12:13
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    13In the transgression of the lips is a snare to the evil man; But the righteous shall come out of trouble.

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    22But his flesh upon him hath pain, And his soul within him mourneth.

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    69%

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    8And if they be bound in fetters, And be taken in the cords of afflictions;

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    3The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: He hath ceased to be wise [and] to do good.

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    25Lest thou learn this ways, And get a snare to thy soul.

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    20The soul that sinneth, it shall die: the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.

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    5Her feet go down to death; Her steps take hold on Sheol;