Proverbs 5:22

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The wicked will be caught by his own iniquities, and he will be held fast by the cords of his sin.

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  • Ps 7:15-16 : 15 Behold, the wicked conceives evil, is pregnant with mischief, and gives birth to lies. 16 They dig a pit and hollow it out, only to fall into the hole they have made.
  • Ps 9:15 : 15 So that I may recount all your praises in the gates of Daughter Zion; I will rejoice in your salvation.
  • Prov 1:18 : 18 But these men lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives.
  • Prov 1:31-32 : 31 Therefore they will eat the fruit of their own way and be filled with their own schemes. 32 For the turning away of the simple will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them.
  • Prov 11:3 : 3 The integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them.
  • Prov 11:5 : 5 The righteousness of the blameless makes their path straight, but the wicked fall because of their own wickedness.
  • Eccl 7:26 : 26 I found that more bitter than death is the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are chains. The one who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner will be caught by her.
  • Jer 2:19 : 19 Your own wickedness will discipline you; your backslidings will rebuke you. Consider and see how evil and bitter it is for you to forsake the LORD your God and to have no fear of me,” declares the Lord, the LORD Almighty.
  • Hos 4:11-14 : 11 Fornication, wine, and new wine take away the heart and understanding. 12 My people consult their wooden idols, and their staffs provide guidance for them. A spirit of prostitution has led them astray; they have been unfaithful under their God. 13 They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oaks, poplars, and terebinths, where the shade is pleasant. Therefore your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery. 14 I will not punish your daughters when they commit fornication, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery. For the men themselves go aside with harlots and sacrifice with temple prostitutes, and a people without understanding will come to ruin.
  • 1 Cor 5:9-9 : 9 I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people. 10 I did not at all mean the sexually immoral people of this world, or the greedy, or swindlers, or idolaters. In that case, you would have to leave the world.
  • Gal 5:19-21 : 19 Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, debauchery, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hostilities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambitions, dissensions, factions, 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
  • Gal 6:7-8 : 7 Do not be deceived: God is not mocked. For whatever a person sows, that they will also reap. 8 The one who sows to their flesh will reap decay from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.
  • Eph 5:5-6 : 5 For you know this with certainty, that no sexually immoral, impure, or greedy person—who is an idolater—has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. 6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience.
  • Heb 13:4 : 4 Marriage is to be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
  • Num 32:23 : 23 But if you do not do this, you will have sinned against the Lord. Be sure your sin will find you out.

Similar Verses (AI)

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    7His vigorous steps will be restricted, and his own counsel will cast him down.

    8For his feet are cast into a net, and he wanders into its mesh.

    9A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare holds him tight.

    10His rope lies hidden in the ground, and his trap is set along the path.

  • Prov 5:23
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    23He will die for lack of discipline, and in the abundance of his folly, he will go astray.

  • Isa 5:18
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    18Woe to those who drag iniquity with cords of falsehood and sin as if with cart ropes!

  • Prov 11:5-6
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    5The righteousness of the blameless makes their path straight, but the wicked fall because of their own wickedness.

    6The righteousness of the upright delivers them, but the treacherous are trapped by their own desires.

  • Prov 22:5
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    5Thorns and snares are in the path of the crooked; whoever guards their soul will stay far from them.

  • Prov 28:10
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    10Whoever leads the upright along an evil path will fall into his own pit, but the blameless will inherit what is good.

  • Ps 9:15-16
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    15So that I may recount all your praises in the gates of Daughter Zion; I will rejoice in your salvation.

    16The nations have sunk into the pit they made; their feet are caught in the net they hid.

  • Isa 3:11
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    11Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; they will be repaid for their deeds.

  • Ezek 18:26
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    26If a righteous person turns from their righteousness and commits sin, they will die for it; because of the sin they have committed, they will die.

  • Prov 5:21
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    21For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and He examines all his paths.

  • Prov 22:8
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    8Whoever sows injustice will reap trouble, and the rod of his fury will fail.

  • Job 20:11
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    11The youthful vigor that filled his bones will lie down with him in the dust.

  • Job 22:5
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    5Is not your wickedness great and your iniquities without end?

  • Ezek 18:18
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    18But his father, because he practiced extortion, robbed his own people, and did what was not good among them—behold, he will die for his iniquity.

  • Job 36:17
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    17But you are full of the judgment on the wicked; justice and judgment take hold of you.

  • Ezek 33:18
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    18If a righteous person turns from their righteousness and commits iniquity, they will die because of it.

  • Prov 6:15
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    15Therefore his disaster will come suddenly; in an instant, he will be broken beyond healing.

  • Job 20:22
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    22In the fullness of his plenty, he will be distressed; the hand of all who toil will come upon him.

  • Jer 5:25
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    25Your iniquities have diverted these blessings, and your sins have withheld good things from you.

  • Prov 13:6
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    6Righteousness guards the way of integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.

  • Ps 35:8
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    8May destruction come upon them unawares. May the net they hid ensnare them; may they fall into their own trap.

  • Prov 21:18
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    18The wicked serve as a ransom for the righteous, and the treacherous for the upright.

  • Job 21:19-20
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    19God stores up their iniquity for their children. Let him repay them so that they may experience it themselves.

    20Let their own eyes see their destruction, and let them drink from the wrath of the Almighty.

  • Ps 7:15-16
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    15Behold, the wicked conceives evil, is pregnant with mischief, and gives birth to lies.

    16They dig a pit and hollow it out, only to fall into the hole they have made.

  • Job 5:13
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    13He traps the wise in their own craftiness, and the schemes of the twisted are quickly foiled.

  • Prov 11:19
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    19True righteousness leads to life, but whoever chases after evil brings about his own death.

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    12The guilt of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is stored away.

  • Prov 1:31
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    31Therefore they will eat the fruit of their own way and be filled with their own schemes.

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    6An evil man is ensnared by his transgression, but the righteous rejoice and are glad.

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    27The heavens will expose his guilt, and the earth will rise up against him.

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    2Yet He is wise and brings disaster; He does not take back His words. He will rise against the house of evildoers and against the help of those who practice wickedness.

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    23He will repay them for their iniquity and destroy them for their evil; the LORD our God will annihilate them.

  • Prov 12:13
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    13By the sin of their lips, the wicked are trapped, but the righteous escape trouble.

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    22He feels pain only in his own flesh and mourns only for himself.

  • Prov 6:2
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    2you have been trapped by the words of your mouth, caught by the words of your mouth.

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    24But if a righteous person turns away from their righteousness and commits sin, doing the same detestable things the wicked do, will they live? None of the righteous deeds they have done will be remembered. Because of the unfaithfulness they are guilty of and because of the sins they have committed, they will die.

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    22It hurls itself against him without mercy; he flees desperately from its power.

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    8If they are bound in chains and held captive by cords of suffering,

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    3For he flatters himself in his own eyes, thinking his iniquity will not be discovered or hated.

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    25Or you may learn their ways and set a trap for your soul.

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    36But whoever sins against me wrongs his own soul; all who hate me love death.

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    20The soul who sins will die. The son will not bear the guilt of the father, nor the father bear the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous will be credited to them, and the wickedness of the wicked will be charged against them.

  • Prov 5:5
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    5Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to the grave.