Proverbs 16:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

Everyone that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though they join hand in hand, they shall not go unpunished.

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  • Prov 6:16-17 : 16 These six things the LORD hates: yes, seven are an abomination to him: 17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
  • Prov 8:13 : 13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil; pride and arrogance and the evil way, and the perverse mouth, do I hate.
  • Prov 11:21 : 21 Though they join hands, the wicked shall not be unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous shall be delivered.
  • Rom 2:8-9 : 8 But to those who are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, 9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
  • Jas 4:6 : 6 But he gives more grace. Therefore he says, God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.
  • Exod 20:7 : 7 You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.
  • Job 40:12 : 12 Look on everyone that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.
  • Isa 3:11 : 11 Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him, for the reward of his hands shall be given to him.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 11:20-21
    2 verses
    76%

    20Those who are of a perverse heart are an abomination to the LORD, but the upright in their way are His delight.

    21Though they join hands, the wicked shall not be unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous shall be delivered.

  • Prov 6:15-17
    3 verses
    74%

    15Therefore his calamity shall come suddenly; suddenly he shall be broken without remedy.

    16These six things the LORD hates: yes, seven are an abomination to him:

    17A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

  • Prov 16:18-19
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    74%

    18Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

    19It is better to be of a humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.

  • Deut 25:16
    74%

    16For all who do such things, and all who act unrighteously, are an abomination to the LORD your God.

  • Prov 21:4
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    4A proud look, a haughty heart, and the plowing of the wicked are sin.

  • Prov 17:15
    73%

    15He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the just, both of them are an abomination to the LORD.

  • Ps 10:2-4
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    2The wicked in his pride persecutes the poor; let them be caught in the devices they have imagined.

    3For the wicked boasts of his heart's desire, and blesses the greedy, whom the LORD abhors.

    4The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God; God is not in all his thoughts.

  • Prov 29:27
    73%

    27An unjust man is an abomination to the just; and he who is upright in the way is an abomination to the wicked.

  • Prov 15:9
    73%

    9The way of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD, but He loves those who pursue righteousness.

  • Job 40:11-12
    2 verses
    73%

    11Cast afar the rage of your wrath; and behold everyone that is proud, and abase him.

    12Look on everyone that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.

  • Isa 2:11-12
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    72%

    11The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

    12For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon everyone that is proud and lofty, and upon everyone that is lifted up, and he shall be brought low:

  • Prov 16:6
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    6By mercy and truth iniquity is purged, and by the fear of the LORD one departs from evil.

  • Isa 5:15
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    15And the humble man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:

  • Prov 29:23
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    23A man's pride will bring him low; but honor shall uphold the humble in spirit.

  • Prov 8:13
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    13The fear of the LORD is to hate evil; pride and arrogance and the evil way, and the perverse mouth, do I hate.

  • Prov 3:32
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    32For the perverse person is an abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.

  • Prov 28:25
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    25He who is of a proud heart stirs up strife, but he who puts his trust in the LORD shall be made prosperous.

  • Ps 101:5
    70%

    5Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him will I cut off: him that has a haughty look and a proud heart I will not endure.

  • Prov 15:26
    70%

    26The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD, but the words of the pure are pleasant words.

  • Mal 3:15
    70%

    15And now we call the proud blessed; yes, those who do wickedness are raised up; yes, those who test God go free.

  • Prov 18:12
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    12Before destruction the heart of a man is haughty, and before honor is humility.

  • Prov 11:1-2
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    1A false balance is an abomination to the LORD, but an accurate weight is His delight.

    2When pride comes, then comes shame, but with the humble is wisdom.

  • Ps 15:4
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    4In whose eyes a vile person is despised; but he honors those who fear the LORD. He who swears to his own hurt, and does not change.

  • Isa 9:17
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    17Therefore the Lord will have no joy in their young men, nor have mercy on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is a hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

  • Hos 5:5
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    5And the pride of Israel testifies to his face: therefore Israel and Ephraim shall fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them.

  • Ps 26:10
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    10in whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.

  • Prov 14:2
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    2He who walks in his uprightness fears the LORD, but he who is perverse in his ways despises Him.

  • Prov 21:24
    70%

    24Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who deals in arrogant wrath.

  • Prov 17:5
    69%

    5Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker, and he who is glad at calamity shall not go unpunished.

  • Jer 13:15
    69%

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

  • Num 15:30
    69%

    30But the soul who does anything presumptuously, whether he is native or a stranger, that soul reproaches the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

  • Ps 73:6
    69%

    6Therefore pride surrounds them as a chain; violence covers them as a garment.

  • Luke 16:15
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    15And he said to them, You are the ones who justify yourselves before men; but God knows your hearts: for what is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.

  • Jas 4:16
    69%

    16But now you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil.

  • Prov 16:12
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    12It is an abomination for kings to commit wickedness, for the throne is established by righteousness.

  • Job 41:34
    69%

    34He beholds all high things; he is a king over all the children of pride.

  • Prov 24:9
    69%

    9The thought of foolishness is sin, and the scoffer is an abomination to men.

  • Ps 5:6
    69%

    6You shall destroy those who speak falsehood; the LORD will abhor the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

  • Ps 36:2
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    2For he flatters himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity is found to be hateful.

  • Prov 29:1
    69%

    1He who is often reproved and hardens his neck shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

  • Ps 58:2
    69%

    2Yes, in heart you work wickedness; you weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.