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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  • 11 ¶ The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.

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

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

  • 12 ¶ The righteous [man] wisely considereth the house of the wicked: [but God] overthroweth the wicked for [their] wickedness.

  • 15 ¶ The rich man's wealth [is] his strong city: the destruction of the poor [is] their poverty.

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    29 ¶ The way of the LORD [is] strength to the upright: but destruction [shall be] to the workers of iniquity.

    30 The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.

  • 11 For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.

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

  • 28 And he dwelleth in desolate cities, [and] in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.

  • 12 And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, [and] bring to the ground, [even] to the dust.

  • 17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD upholdeth the righteous.

  • 37 And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

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    18 ¶ Pride [goeth] before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

    19 ¶ Better [it is to be] of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.

  • 15 Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath spoken.

  • 26 ¶ The thoughts of the wicked [are] an abomination to the LORD: but [the words] of the pure [are] pleasant words.

  • 32 And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him.

  • 23 For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.

  • 9 Thus saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.

  • 19 Because he hath oppressed [and] hath forsaken the poor; [because] he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;

  • 1 ¶ Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.

  • 7 ¶ The wicked are overthrown, and [are] not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.

  • 2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and [that] they may rob the fatherless!

  • 15 And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the LORD.

  • 12 I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, [and] the right of the poor.

  • 6 ¶ Though the LORD [be] high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off.

  • 6 Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD [is] his refuge.

  • 6 The LORD lifteth up the meek: he casteth the wicked down to the ground.

  • 2 The wicked in [his] pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

  • 21 He evil entreateth the barren [that] beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.

  • 11 Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve [them] alive; and let thy widows trust in me.

  • 9 In mine ears [said] the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, [even] great and fair, without inhabitant.

  • 6 They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.

  • 9 The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, [and] to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.

  • 11 To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.

  • 33 The curse of the LORD [is] in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just.

  • 15 Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.

  • 5 Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.

  • 5 ¶ For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, [even] to the ground; he bringeth it [even] to the dust.

  • 9 That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.

  • 31 ¶ He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.

  • 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:

  • 23 ¶ A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.

  • 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.

  • 20 The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy.

  • 24 ¶ The way of life [is] above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.

  • 9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

  • 8 Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused [him] to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.

  • 14 The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor [is] in your houses.