Proverbs 5:22

KJV1611 – Modern English

His own iniquities shall capture the wicked, and he shall be held with the cords of his sins.

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  • Ps 7:15-16 : 15 He made a pit, and dug it, and has fallen into the ditch he made. 16 His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own crown.
  • Ps 9:15 : 15 The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made; in the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.
  • Prov 1:18 : 18 And they lie in wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives.
  • Prov 1:31-32 : 31 Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. 32 For the turning away of the simple will slay them, and the prosperity of fools will destroy them.
  • Prov 11:3 : 3 The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the crookedness of transgressors shall destroy them.
  • Prov 11:5 : 5 The righteousness of the blameless shall direct his way, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
  • Eccl 7:26 : 26 And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands are chains. He who pleases God shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be trapped by her.
  • Jer 2:19 : 19 Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backslidings shall reprove you: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that you have forsaken the LORD your God, and that my fear is not in you, says the Lord GOD of hosts.
  • Hos 4:11-14 : 11 Harlotry and wine and new wine take away the heart. 12 My people ask counsel from their wooden idols, and their staff declares to them, for the spirit of harlotry has caused them to err, and they have gone astray under their God. 13 They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shade thereof is good. Therefore your daughters shall commit harlotry, and your spouses shall commit adultery. 14 I will not punish your daughters when they commit harlotry, nor your spouses when they commit adultery, for the men themselves are separated with harlots, and they sacrifice with temple prostitutes. Therefore, the people who do not understand shall fall.
  • 1 Cor 5:9-9 : 9 I wrote to you in a letter not to associate with sexually immoral people. 10 Yet not entirely with the sexually immoral of this world, or with the greedy, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world.
  • Gal 5:19-21 : 19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are these: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousy, wrath, strife, seditious, heresies, 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
  • Gal 6:7-8 : 7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatever a man sows, that shall he also reap. 8 For he who sows to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he who sows to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
  • Eph 5:5-6 : 5 For this you know, that no sexually immoral, unclean, or greedy person, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. 6 Let no one deceive you with empty words: for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the children of disobedience.
  • Heb 13:4 : 4 Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
  • Num 32:23 : 23 But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the LORD, and be sure your sin will find you out.

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    7The steps of his strength shall be shortened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

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    23He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

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    18Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as if with a cart rope:

  • 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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  • Ps 9:15-16
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    15The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made; in the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.

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    11Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him, for the reward of his hands shall be given to him.

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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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    21For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and He ponders all his paths.

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    8He who sows iniquity shall reap vanity, and the rod of his anger shall fail.

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    11His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.

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    5Is not your wickedness great, and your iniquities infinite?

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    17But you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on you.

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    18When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall die because of it.

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

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    22In the fullness of his sufficiency he shall be in distress; every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.

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  • Prov 21:18
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    18The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.

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    19God lays up iniquity for his children; He rewards him, and he shall know it.

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    15He made a pit, and dug it, and has fallen into the ditch he made.

    16His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own crown.

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    31Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

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    27The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.

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    23And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yes, the LORD our God shall cut them off.

  • Prov 12:13
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    13The wicked is ensnared by the transgression of his lips, but the just will come out of trouble.

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    25Lest you learn his ways and get a snare to your soul.

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    20The soul that sins, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, nor shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.

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    5Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.