Proverbs 21:29

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ A wicked man hardeneth his face: but [as for] the upright, he directeth his way.

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  • Prov 11:5 : 5 ¶ The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
  • Prov 28:14 : 14 ¶ Happy [is] the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief.
  • Prov 29:1 : 1 ¶ He, that being often reproved hardeneth [his] neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
  • Jer 3:2-3 : 2 Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness. 3 Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.
  • Jer 5:3 : 3 O LORD, [are] not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, [but] they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
  • Jer 8:12 : 12 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
  • Jer 44:16-17 : 16 [As for] the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee. 17 But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for [then] had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.
  • Ezek 18:28 : 28 Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
  • Hag 1:5 : 5 Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
  • Hag 1:7 : 7 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
  • Hag 2:15 : 15 And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD:
  • Hag 2:18-19 : 18 Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth [month, even] from the day that the foundation of the LORD'S temple was laid, consider [it]. 19 Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless [you].
  • Luke 15:17-18 : 17 ‹And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!› 18 ‹I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,›
  • 1 Thess 3:11 : 11 ¶ Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you.
  • Ps 119:5 : 5 O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!
  • Ps 119:59 : 59 ¶ I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.

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