Proverbs 25:26

KJV1611 – Modern English

A righteous man who falters before the wicked is like a troubled fountain and a corrupt spring.

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  • Gen 4:8 : 8 And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and killed him.
  • 1 Sam 22:14-18 : 14 Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who is so faithful among all your servants as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and goes at your bidding, and is honorable in your house? 15 Did I then begin to enquire of God for him? Far be it from me: let not the king impute anything to his servant, nor to all the house of my father: for your servant knew nothing of all this, little or much. 16 And the king said, You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you, and all your father's house. 17 And the king said to the footmen that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of the LORD; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not show it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to attack the priests of the LORD. 18 And the king said to Doeg, Turn you, and attack the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he attacked the priests, and killed on that day eighty-five persons that wore a linen ephod.
  • 2 Chr 24:21-22 : 21 And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the command of the king in the court of the house of the LORD. 22 So Joash the king did not remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. And when he died, he said, The LORD look upon it, and require it.
  • Ezek 32:2 : 2 Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him, You are like a young lion of the nations, and you are like a whale in the seas; and you came forth with your rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, and fouled their rivers.
  • Ezek 34:18-19 : 18 Does it seem a small thing to you to have eaten up the good pasture, but you must tread down with your feet the rest of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but you must foul the rest with your feet? 19 And as for my flock, they eat what you have trodden with your feet; and they drink what you have fouled with your feet.
  • Matt 23:34-37 : 34 Therefore, indeed, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes: some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city: 35 that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. 36 Truly I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation. 37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you, how often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!
  • Matt 26:69-74 : 69 Now Peter sat outside in the palace: and a servant girl came to him, saying, You also were with Jesus of Galilee. 70 But he denied before them all, saying, I do not know what you are saying. 71 And when he was gone out into the porch, another servant girl saw him, and said to them that were there, This fellow was also with Jesus of Nazareth. 72 And again he denied with an oath, I do not know the man. 73 And after a while those who stood by came to him, and said to Peter, Surely you also are one of them; for your speech betrays you. 74 Then he began to curse and to swear, saying, I do not know the man. And immediately the rooster crowed.
  • Acts 7:52 : 52 Which of the prophets have your fathers not persecuted? And they have killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One, of whom you have now become the betrayers and murderers,
  • 1 Thess 2:15 : 15 Who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they do not please God, and are contrary to all men:
  • Rev 17:6 : 6 And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus; and when I saw her, I marveled with great wonder.

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  • Prov 10:11
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    11The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

  • Prov 11:5-6
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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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    27An unjust man is an abomination to the just; and he who is upright in the way is an abomination to the wicked.

  • Prov 28:10
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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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    28He who trusts in his riches shall fall, but the righteous shall flourish like a branch.

  • Prov 29:16
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    16When the wicked multiply, transgression increases; but the righteous shall see their fall.

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    20But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.

  • Prov 13:5-6
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    5A righteous man hates lying, but a wicked man is loathsome and comes to shame.

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    7As a fountain casts out her waters, so she casts out her wickedness; violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually are grief and wounds.

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    16A little that the righteous has is better than the riches of many wicked.

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    16How much more abominable and filthy is man, who drinks iniquity like water?

  • Prov 11:8
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    8The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked comes in his place.

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    7The wicked are overthrown and are no more, but the house of the righteous will stand.

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    19The evil will bow before the good, and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.

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    12The righteous man wisely considers the house of the wicked, but God overthrows the wicked for their wickedness.

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    3A man will not be established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous will not be moved.

  • Prov 28:28
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    28When the wicked rise, people hide themselves, but when they perish, the righteous increase.

  • Prov 21:29
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    29A wicked man hardens his face, but as for the upright, he directs his way.

  • Prov 14:32
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    32The wicked is banished in his wickedness, but the righteous has hope in his death.

  • Prov 15:28
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    28The heart of the righteous studies how to answer, but the mouth of the wicked pours out evil things.

  • Prov 28:3
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    3A poor man who oppresses the poor is like a sweeping rain that leaves no food.

  • Prov 5:15-16
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    15Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.

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    6Blessings are upon the head of the just, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

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    26When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and dies in them; for his iniquity that he has done he shall die.

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    6In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare; but the righteous sing and rejoice.

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    25As the whirlwind passes, so is the wicked no more, but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.

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    6In the house of the righteous is much treasure, but in the income of the wicked is trouble.

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    23The desire of the righteous is only good, but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.

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    23A wicked man takes a bribe out of the bosom, to pervert the ways of justice.

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    15As a roaring lion and a raging bear, so is a wicked ruler over poor people.

  • Ps 107:33-34
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    33He turns rivers into a wilderness, and the water springs into dry ground;

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    8The way of the guilty is crooked and strange, but as for the pure, his work is right.

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    12The wicked desires the catch of evil men, but the root of the righteous yields fruit.

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    12When righteous men rejoice, there is great glory, but when the wicked rise, a man hides himself.

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    18The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.

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