Proverbs 21:29

KJV1611 – Modern English

A wicked man hardens his face, but as for the upright, he directs his way.

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  • Prov 11:5 : 5 The righteousness of the blameless shall direct his way, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
  • Prov 28:14 : 14 Happy is the man who always fears, but he who hardens his heart will fall into mischief.
  • Prov 29:1 : 1 He who is often reproved and hardens his neck shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
  • Jer 3:2-3 : 2 Lift up your eyes to the high places and see where you have not been violated. On the roads you have sat for them, like an Arabian in the wilderness; and you have polluted the land with your whoredoms and your wickedness. 3 Therefore, the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; and you had a harlot's forehead, you refused to be ashamed.
  • Jer 5:3 : 3 O LORD, are not your eyes upon the truth? You have stricken them, but they have not grieved; you have 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? No, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore, they shall fall among those that fall: when I punish them, they shall be cast down, says the LORD.
  • Jer 44:16-17 : 16 As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you. 17 But we will certainly do whatever thing proceeds out of our own mouth, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to 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 we had plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil.
  • Ezek 18:28 : 28 Because he considers and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
  • Hag 1:5 : 5 Now therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.
  • Hag 1:7 : 7 Thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.
  • Hag 2:15 : 15 And now, I pray you, consider from this day onward, before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD:
  • Hag 2:18-19 : 18 Consider now, from this day forward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, from the day that the foundation of the LORD'S temple was laid, consider it. 19 Is the seed yet in the barn? Indeed, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have not yielded fruit. From this day I will bless you.
  • Luke 15:17-18 : 17 And when he came to himself, he said, How many of my father's hired servants have bread enough to spare, and I perish with hunger! 18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you,
  • 1 Thess 3:11 : 11 Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you.
  • Ps 119:5 : 5 Oh that my ways were directed to keep Your statutes!
  • Ps 119:59 : 59 I considered my ways and turned my feet to Your testimonies.

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    9He who walks uprightly walks surely, but he who perverts his ways shall be known.

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

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    3The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the crookedness of transgressors shall destroy them.

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  • Prov 17:20
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    20He who has a perverse heart finds no good, and he who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.

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    14Happy is the man who always fears, but he who hardens his heart will fall into mischief.

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    9A man's heart plans his way, but the LORD directs his steps.

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    18Whoever walks uprightly shall be saved, but he who is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.

  • Job 21:30-31
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    30That the wicked is reserved for the day of destruction? They shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.

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    5The righteousness of the blameless shall direct his way, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

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    10Whoever causes the righteous to go astray in an evil way will fall into his own pit, but the upright shall have good things in possession.

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    17The highway of the upright is to depart from evil; he who keeps his way preserves his soul.

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    5The thoughts of the righteous are right, but the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.