Proverbs 12:26

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ The righteous [is] more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.

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  • Ps 16:3 : 3 [But] to the saints that [are] in the earth, and [to] the excellent, in whom [is] all my delight.
  • Ps 18:12-13 : 12 At the brightness [that was] before him his thick clouds passed, hail [stones] and coals of fire. 13 The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail [stones] and coals of fire.
  • Prov 12:13 : 13 ¶ The wicked is snared by the transgression of [his] lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.
  • Prov 17:27 : 27 ¶ He that hath knowledge spareth his words: [and] a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.
  • Matt 5:46-48 : 46 ‹For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?› 47 ‹And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more› [than others]? ‹do not even the publicans so?› 48 ‹Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.›
  • Luke 6:32-36 : 32 ‹For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.› 33 ‹And if ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye? for sinners also do even the same.› 34 ‹And if ye lend› [to them] ‹of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again.› 35 ‹But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and› [to] ‹the evil.› 36 ‹Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.›
  • Jas 1:13-14 : 13 ¶ Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: 14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
  • 1 Pet 2:18-21 : 18 Servants, [be] subject to [your] masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward. 19 For this [is] thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully. 20 For what glory [is it], if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer [for it], ye take it patiently, this [is] acceptable with God. 21 For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:
  • 2 Pet 2:18-22 : 18 For when they speak great swelling [words] of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, [through much] wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. 19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. 20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. 21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known [it], to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. 22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog [is] turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
  • 1 John 2:26 : 26 These [things] have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.
  • Rev 12:9 : 9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
  • Rev 13:14 : 14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by [the means of] those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.

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