Proverbs 29:27

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ An unjust man [is] an abomination to the just: and [he that is] upright in the way [is] abomination to the wicked.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 139:21 : 21 Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
  • 1 John 3:13 : 13 Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
  • Ps 119:115 : 115 ¶ Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God.
  • Prov 24:9 : 9 The thought of foolishness [is] sin: and the scorner [is] an abomination to men.
  • Prov 29:10 : 10 ¶ The bloodthirsty hate the upright: but the just seek his soul.
  • Zech 11:8 : 8 Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.
  • John 7:7 : 7 ‹The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.›
  • John 15:17-19 : 17 ‹These things I command you, that ye love one another.› 18 ¶ ‹If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before› [it hated] ‹you.› 19 ‹If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.›
  • John 15:23 : 23 ‹He that hateth me hateth my Father also.›

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