Proverbs 29:6

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ In the transgression of an evil man [there is] a snare: but the righteous doth sing and rejoice.

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  • Exod 15:1 : 1 ¶ Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
  • Job 18:7-9 : 7 The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down. 8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare. 9 The gin shall take [him] by the heel, [and] the robber shall prevail against him. 10 The snare [is] laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
  • Ps 11:6 : 6 Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: [this shall be] the portion of their cup.
  • Ps 97:11 : 11 Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.
  • Ps 118:15 : 15 The voice of rejoicing and salvation [is] in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly.
  • Ps 132:16 : 16 I will also clothe her priests with salvation: and her saints shall shout aloud for joy.
  • Prov 5:22 : 22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
  • Prov 11:5-6 : 5 ¶ The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness. 6 The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in [their own] naughtiness.
  • Prov 12:13 : 13 ¶ The wicked is snared by the transgression of [his] lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.
  • Eccl 9:12 : 12 For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so [are] the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
  • Rom 5:2-3 : 2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 3 And not only [so], but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
  • 2 Tim 2:26 : 26 And [that] they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.
  • Jas 1:2 : 2 ¶ My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
  • 1 Pet 1:8 : 8 Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see [him] not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
  • 1 John 1:4 : 4 And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.
  • Isa 8:14-15 : 14 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 15 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

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