Proverbs 12:26

Bible in Basic English (1941)

The upright man is a guide to his neighbour, but the way of evil-doers is a cause of error to them.

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  • Ps 16:3 : 3 As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the noble in whom is all my delight.
  • Ps 18:12-13 : 12 Before his shining light his dark clouds went past, raining ice and fire. 13 The Lord made thunder in the heavens, and the voice of the Highest was sounding out: a rain of ice and fire.
  • Prov 12:13 : 13 In the sin of the lips is a net which takes the sinner, but the upright man will come out of trouble.
  • Prov 17:27 : 27 He who has knowledge says little: and he who has a calm spirit is a man of good sense.
  • Matt 5:46-48 : 46 For if you have love for those who have love for you, what credit is it to you? do not the tax-farmers the same? 47 And if you say, Good day, to your brothers only, what do you do more than others? do not even the Gentiles the same? 48 Be then complete in righteousness, even as your Father in heaven is complete.
  • Luke 6:32-36 : 32 If you have love for those who have love for you, what credit is it to you? for even sinners have love for those who have love for them. 33 And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is it to you? for even sinners do the same. 34 And if you let those have the use of your money, from whom you are hoping to get it back, what credit is it to you? even sinners do so to sinners, hoping to get back as much as they gave. 35 But be loving to those who are against you and do them good, and give them your money, not giving up hope, and your reward will be great and you will be the sons of the Most High: for he is kind to evil men, and to those who have hard hearts. 36 Be full of pity, even as your Father is full of pity.
  • Jas 1:13-14 : 13 Let no man say when he is tested, I am tested by God; for it is not possible for God to be tested by evil, and he himself puts no man to such a test: 14 But every man is tested when he is turned out of the right way by the attraction of his desire.
  • 1 Pet 2:18-21 : 18 Servants, take orders from your masters with all respect; not only if they are good and gentle, but even if they are bad-humoured. 19 For it is a sign of grace if a man, desiring to do right in the eyes of God, undergoes pain as punishment for something which he has not done. 20 What credit is it if, when you have done evil, you take your punishment quietly? but if you are given punishment for doing right, and take it quietly, this is pleasing to God. 21 This is God's purpose for you: because Jesus himself underwent punishment for you, giving you an example, so that you might go in his footsteps:
  • 2 Pet 2:18-22 : 18 For with high-sounding false words, making use of the attraction of unclean desires of the flesh, they get into their power those newly made free from those who are living in error; 19 Saying that they will be free, while they themselves are the servants of destruction; because whatever gets the better of a man makes a servant of him. 20 For if, after they have got free from the unclean things of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again taken in the net and overcome, their last condition is worse than their first. 21 For it would have been better for them to have had no knowledge of the way of righteousness, than to go back again from the holy law which was given to them, after having knowledge of it. 22 They are an example of that true saying, The dog has gone back to the food it had put out, and the pig which had been washed to its rolling in the dirty earth.
  • 1 John 2:26 : 26 I am writing these things to you about those whose purpose is that you may be turned out of the true way.
  • Rev 12:9 : 9 And the great dragon was forced down, the old snake, who is named the Evil One and Satan, by whom all the earth is turned from the right way; he was forced down to the earth, and his angels were forced down with him.
  • Rev 13:14 : 14 And those who are on the earth are turned from the true way by him through the signs which he was given power to do before the beast; giving orders to those who are on the earth to make an image to the beast, who was wounded by the sword, and came to life.

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  • Prov 12:5-7
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  • Prov 11:5-6
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  • Prov 16:29
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  • Prov 21:12
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    10 Anyone causing the upright to go wandering in an evil way, will himself go down into the hole he has made; but the upright will have good things for their heritage.

  • Prov 14:19
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  • Prov 10:16
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    16 The work of the upright gives life: the increase of the evil-doer is a cause of sin.

  • Prov 28:6
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    6 Better is the poor man whose ways are upright, than the man of wealth whose ways are not straight.

  • Prov 11:23
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  • Prov 29:6
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    6 In the steps of an evil man there is a net for him, but the upright man gets away quickly and is glad.

  • Prov 12:12
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    12 The resting-place of the sinner will come to destruction, but the root of upright men is for ever.

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    16 The little which the good man has is better than the wealth of evil-doers.

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    32 The sinners are watching the upright man, desiring to put him to death.

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    32 The sinner is overturned in his evil-doing, but the upright man has hope in his righteousness.

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    8 The upright man is taken out of trouble, and in his place comes the sinner.

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    19 Thorns are round the way of the hater of work; but the road of the hard worker becomes a highway.

  • Prov 10:29-30
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    29 The way of the Lord is a strong tower for the upright man, but destruction to the workers of evil.

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  • Ps 1:6
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    6 Because the Lord sees the way of the upright, but the end of the sinner is destruction.

  • Prov 24:15
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    7 The way of the good man is straight; the road of the upright is made smooth by you.

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    12 There is a way which seems straight before a man, but its end is the ways of death.

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  • Prov 16:17
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    9 The way of the evil-doer is disgusting to the Lord, but he who goes after righteousness is dear to him.

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    18 The sinner gets the payment of deceit; but his reward is certain who puts in the seed of righteousness.

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    18 The evil-doer will be given as a price for the life of the good man, and the worker of deceit in the place of the upright.

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    25 Care in the heart of a man makes it weighted down, but a good word makes it glad.

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    31 If the upright man is rewarded on earth, how much more the evil-doer and the sinner!

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    1 The evil man goes running away when no man is after him, but the upright are without fear, like the lion.