Proverbs 14:9

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous [there is] favour.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 10:23 : 23 ¶ [It is] as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.
  • Prov 12:2 : 2 ¶ A good [man] obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.
  • Prov 13:15 : 15 ¶ Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors [is] hard.
  • Prov 26:18-19 : 18 ¶ As a mad [man] who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death, 19 So [is] the man [that] deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport?
  • Prov 30:20 : 20 Such [is] the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.
  • Rom 14:17-18 : 17 For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. 18 For he that in these things serveth Christ [is] acceptable to God, and approved of men.
  • Jude 1:18 : 18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
  • Job 15:16 : 16 How much more abominable and filthy [is] man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
  • Job 34:7-9 : 7 What man [is] like Job, [who] drinketh up scorning like water? 8 Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men. 9 For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.
  • Prov 1:22 : 22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
  • Prov 3:4 : 4 So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
  • Prov 8:35 : 35 For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD.

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