Proverbs 28:1

KJV1611 – Modern English

The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion.

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  • Deut 28:7 : 7 The LORD shall cause your enemies that rise up against you to be smitten before your face: they shall come out against you one way, and flee before you seven ways.
  • Ps 53:5 : 5 There they were in great fear, where no fear was; for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you; you have put them to shame, because God has despised them.
  • Lev 26:17 : 17 And I will set my face against you, and you shall be slain before your enemies: those that hate you shall reign over you; and you shall flee when none pursues you.
  • 1 Thess 2:2 : 2 But even after we had suffered before and were shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak to you the gospel of God with much contention.
  • Ps 112:7 : 7 He shall not be afraid of evil tidings; his heart is steadfast, trusting in the LORD.
  • Acts 14:3 : 3 So they stayed there a long time, speaking boldly in the Lord, who confirmed the word of His grace by granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.
  • Isa 26:3-4 : 3 You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. 4 Trust in the LORD forever, for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength.
  • Jer 20:4 : 4 For thus says the LORD, Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself, and to all your friends: and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and your eyes shall behold it: and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword.
  • Dan 3:16-18 : 16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to defend ourselves in this matter. 17 If that is the case, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us from your hand, O king. 18 But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we do not serve your gods, nor will we worship the golden image which you have set up.
  • Dan 6:10-11 : 10 Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he knelt on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before. 11 Then these men assembled, and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his God.
  • Acts 4:13 : 13 Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled; and they realized that they had been with Jesus.
  • Lev 26:36 : 36 And upon those who are left alive of you I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as one flees from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursues.
  • 2 Kgs 7:6-7 : 6 For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us. 7 Therefore they arose and fled at twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their donkeys, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.
  • Ps 27:1-2 : 1 The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? 2 When the wicked, even my enemies and my foes, came upon me to devour my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
  • Ps 46:2-3 : 2 Therefore we will not fear, though the earth is removed, and though the mountains are carried into the midst of the sea; 3 Though its waters roar and are troubled, though the mountains shake with its swelling. Selah.
  • 2 Kgs 7:15 : 15 And they went after them to the Jordan: and, lo, all the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. And the messengers returned, and told the king.
  • Deut 28:25 : 25 The LORD shall cause you to be smitten before your enemies: you shall go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shall be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
  • Exod 11:8 : 8 And all these your servants shall come down to me, and bow down to me, saying, Get out, and all the people that follow you: and after that I will go out. And he went out from Pharaoh in great anger.
  • Isa 7:2 : 2 And it was reported to the house of David, saying, Syria is allied with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest are moved with the wind.

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