Proverbs 5:22

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The wicked will be captured by his own iniquities, and he will be held by the cords of his own sin.

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  • Ps 7:15-16 : 15 he digs a pit and then falls into the hole he has made. 16 He becomes the victim of his own destructive plans and the violence he intended for others falls on his own head.
  • Ps 9:15 : 15 The nations fell into the pit they had made; their feet were caught in the net they had hidden.
  • Prov 1:18 : 18 but these men lie in wait for their own blood, they ambush their own lives!
  • Prov 1:31-32 : 31 Therefore they will eat from the fruit of their way, and they will be stuffed full of their own counsel. 32 For the waywardness of the simpletons will kill them, and the careless ease of fools will destroy them.
  • Prov 11:3 : 3 The integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them.
  • Prov 11:5 : 5 The righteousness of the blameless will make their way smooth, but the wicked will fall through their own wickedness.
  • Eccl 7:26 : 26 I discovered this: More bitter than death is the kind of woman who is like a hunter’s snare; her heart is like a hunter’s net and her hands are like prison chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is captured by her.
  • Jer 2:19 : 19 Your own wickedness will bring about your punishment. Your unfaithful acts will bring down discipline on you. Know, then, and realize how utterly harmful it was for you to reject me, the LORD your God, to show no respect for me,” says the Sovereign LORD of Heaven’s Armies.
  • Hos 4:11-14 : 11 Judgment of Pagan Idolatry and Cultic Prostitution Old and new wine take away the understanding of my people. 12 They consult their wooden idols, and their diviner’s staff answers with an oracle. The wind of prostitution blows them astray; they commit spiritual adultery against their God. 13 They sacrifice on the mountaintops, and burn offerings on the hills; they sacrifice under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is so pleasant. As a result, your daughters have become cult prostitutes, and your daughters-in-law commit adultery! 14 I will not punish your daughters when they commit prostitution, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery. For the men consort with harlots, they sacrifice with temple prostitutes. It is true:“A people that lacks understanding will come to ruin!”
  • 1 Cor 5:9-9 : 9 I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people. 10 In no way did I mean the immoral people of this world, or the greedy and swindlers and idolaters, since you would then have to go out of the world.
  • Gal 5:19-21 : 19 Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, depravity, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hostilities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish rivalries, dissensions, factions, 21 envying, murder, drunkenness, carousing, and similar things. I am warning you, as I had warned you before: Those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God!
  • Gal 6:7-8 : 7 Do not be deceived. God will not be made a fool. For a person will reap what he sows, 8 because the person who sows to his own flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.
  • Eph 5:5-6 : 5 For you can be confident of this one thing: that no person who is immoral, impure, or greedy(such a person is an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. 6 Live in the Light Let nobody deceive you with empty words, for because of these things God’s wrath comes on the sons of disobedience.
  • Heb 13:4 : 4 Marriage must be honored among all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers.
  • Num 32:23 : 23 “But if you do not do this, then look, you will have sinned against the LORD. And know that your sin will find you out.

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    7His vigorous steps are restricted, and his own counsel throws him down.

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    23He will die because there was no discipline; because of the greatness of his folly he will reel.

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    18Beware, those who pull evil along using cords of emptiness are as good as dead, who pull sin as with cart ropes.

  • Prov 11:5-6
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    5The righteousness of the blameless will make their way smooth, but the wicked will fall through their own wickedness.

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  • Ps 9:15-16
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    15The nations fell into the pit they had made; their feet were caught in the net they had hidden.

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    11Woe to the wicked sinners! For they will get exactly what they deserve.

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    26When a righteous person turns back from his righteousness and practices wrongdoing, he will die for it; because of the wrongdoing he has done, he will die.

  • Prov 5:21
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    21For the ways of a person are in front of the LORD’s eyes, and the LORD weighs all that person’s paths.

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    8The one who sows iniquity will reap trouble, and the rod of his fury will end.

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    11His bones were full of his youthful vigor, but that vigor will lie down with him in the dust.

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    5Is not your wickedness great and is there no end to your iniquity?

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    17But now you are preoccupied with the judgment due the wicked, judgment and justice take hold of you.

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    18When a righteous man turns from his godliness and commits iniquity, he will die for it.

  • Prov 6:15
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    15Therefore, his disaster will come suddenly; in an instant he will be broken, and there will be no remedy.

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    22In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress overtakes him. The full force of misery will come upon him.

  • Jer 5:25
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    25Your misdeeds have stopped these things from coming. Your sins have deprived you of my bounty.’

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    6Righteousness guards the one who lives with integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.

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    8Let destruction take them by surprise! Let the net they hid catch them! Let them fall into destruction!

  • Prov 21:18
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    18The wicked become a ransom for the righteous, and the treacherous are taken in the place of the upright.

  • Job 21:19-20
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    19You may say,‘God stores up a man’s punishment for his children!’ Instead let him repay the man himself so that he may be humbled!

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  • Ps 7:15-16
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    15he digs a pit and then falls into the hole he has made.

    16He becomes the victim of his own destructive plans and the violence he intended for others falls on his own head.

  • Job 5:13
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    13He catches the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of the cunning is brought to a quick end.

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    31Therefore they will eat from the fruit of their way, and they will be stuffed full of their own counsel.

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    6In the transgression of an evil person there is a snare, but a righteous person can sing and rejoice.

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    27The heavens reveal his iniquity; the earth rises up against him.

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    23He will pay them back for their sin. He will destroy them because of their evil; the LORD our God will destroy them.

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    13The evil person is ensnared by the transgression of his speech, but the righteous person escapes out of trouble.

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    22His flesh only has pain for him, and he mourns for himself.”

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    2if you have been ensnared by the words you have uttered, and have been caught by the words you have spoken,

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    24“But if a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and practices wrongdoing according to all the abominable practices the wicked carry out, will he live? All his righteous acts will not be remembered; because of the unfaithful acts he has done and the sin he has committed, he will die.

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    22It hurls itself against him without pity as he flees headlong from its power.

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    8But if they are bound in chains, and held captive by the cords of affliction,

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    3The words he speaks are sinful and deceitful; he does not care about doing what is wise and right.

  • Prov 22:25
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    25lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.

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    36But the one who misses me brings harm to himself; all who hate me love death."

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    20The person who sins is the one who will die. A son will not suffer for his father’s iniquity, and a father will not suffer for his son’s iniquity; the righteous person will be judged according to his righteousness, and the wicked person according to his wickedness.

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    5Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to the grave.