Proverbs 15:25

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.

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  • Ps 146:9 : 9 The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
  • Prov 23:10 : 10 ¶ Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
  • Prov 12:7 : 7 ¶ The wicked are overthrown, and [are] not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.
  • Prov 14:11 : 11 ¶ The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.
  • Ps 68:5-6 : 5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, [is] God in his holy habitation. 6 God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry [land].
  • Deut 10:17-18 : 17 For the LORD your God [is] God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward: 18 He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
  • Jas 1:27 : 27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world.
  • 1 Pet 5:5 : 5 ¶ Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all [of you] be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
  • Isa 2:12 : 12 For the day of the LORD of hosts [shall be] upon every [one that is] proud and lofty, and upon every [one that is] lifted up; and he shall be brought low:
  • Dan 5:20 : 20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:
  • Ps 52:5 : 5 God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of [thy] dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.
  • Deut 19:14 : 14 ¶ Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.
  • Job 40:11-13 : 11 Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one [that is] proud, and abase him. 12 Look on every one [that is] proud, [and] bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place. 13 Hide them in the dust together; [and] bind their faces in secret.
  • Ps 138:6 : 6 ¶ Though the LORD [be] high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off.
  • Ps 52:1 : 1 ¶ To the chief Musician, Maschil, [A Psalm] of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David is come to the house of Ahimelech. Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God [endureth] continually.

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    9The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

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    9Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

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    15And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:

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