Proverbs 15:25

World English Bible (2000)

Yahweh will uproot the house of the proud, but he will keep the widow's borders intact.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 146:9 : 9 Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.
  • Prov 23:10 : 10 Don't move the ancient boundary stone. Don't encroach on the fields of the fatherless:
  • Prov 12:7 : 7 The wicked are overthrown, and are no more, but the house of the righteous shall stand.
  • Prov 14:11 : 11 The house of the wicked will be overthrown, but the tent of the upright will flourish.
  • Ps 68:5-6 : 5 A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation. 6 God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.
  • Deut 10:17-18 : 17 For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods, and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn't respect persons, nor takes reward. 18 He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing.
  • Jas 1:27 : 27 Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
  • 1 Pet 5:5 : 5 Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."
  • Isa 2:12 : 12 For there will be a day of Yahweh of Armies for all that is proud and haughty, and for all that is lifted up; and it shall be brought low:
  • Dan 5:20 : 20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:
  • Ps 52:5 : 5 God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.
  • Deut 19:14 : 14 You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which they of old time have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit, in the land that Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.
  • Job 40:11-13 : 11 Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low. 12 Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place. 13 Hide them in the dust together. Bind their faces in the hidden place.
  • Ps 138:6 : 6 For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but the proud, he knows from afar.
  • Ps 52:1 : 1 Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God's loving kindness endures continually.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 14:11
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    11The house of the wicked will be overthrown, but the tent of the upright will flourish.

  • Ps 146:9
    74%

    9Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.

  • Job 22:9
    73%

    9You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

  • Prov 21:12
    71%

    12The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked, and brings the wicked to ruin.

  • Prov 10:15
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    15The rich man's wealth is his strong city. The destruction of the poor is their poverty.

  • Prov 10:29-30
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    71%

    29The way of Yahweh is a stronghold to the upright, but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

    30The righteous will never be removed, but the wicked will not dwell in the land.

  • Amos 6:11
    71%

    11"For, behold, Yahweh commands, and the great house will be smashed to pieces, and the little house into bits.

  • Isa 5:15
    71%

    15So man is brought low, mankind is humbled, and the eyes of the arrogant ones are humbled;

  • Job 15:28
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    28He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.

  • Isa 25:12
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    12He has brought the high fortress of your walls down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.

  • Ps 37:17
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    17For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but Yahweh upholds the righteous.

  • Jer 25:37
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    37The peaceable folds are brought to silence because of the fierce anger of Yahweh.

  • Prov 16:18-19
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    70%

    18Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

    19It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor, than to divide the plunder with the proud.

  • Jer 13:15
    70%

    15Hear, and give ear; don't be proud; for Yahweh has spoken.

  • Prov 15:26
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    26Yahweh detests the thoughts of the wicked, but the thoughts of the pure are pleasing.

  • Jer 50:32
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    32The proud one shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up; and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all who are around him.

  • Prov 22:23
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    23for Yahweh will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.

  • Jer 13:9
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    9Thus says Yahweh, In this way I will mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.

  • Job 20:19
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    19For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.

  • Prov 14:1
    70%

    1Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

  • Prov 12:7
    70%

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

  • Isa 10:2
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    2to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

  • Amos 3:15
    69%

    15I will strike the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory will perish, and the great houses will have an end," says Yahweh.

  • Ps 140:12
    69%

    12I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.

  • Ps 138:6
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    6For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but the proud, he knows from afar.

  • Ps 14:6
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    6You frustrate the plan of the poor, because Yahweh is his refuge.

  • Ps 147:6
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    6Yahweh upholds the humble. He brings the wicked down to the ground.

  • Ps 10:2
    69%

    2In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.

  • Job 24:21
    69%

    21He devours the barren who don't bear. He shows no kindness to the widow.

  • Jer 49:11
    69%

    11Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me.

  • Isa 5:9
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    9In my ears, Yahweh of Armies says: "Surely many houses will be desolate, even great and beautiful, unoccupied.

  • Ps 94:6
    69%

    6They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.

  • Isa 23:9
    69%

    9Yahweh of Armies has planned it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.

  • Job 5:11
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    11so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety.

  • Prov 3:33
    69%

    33Yahweh's curse is in the house of the wicked, but he blesses the habitation of the righteous.

  • Job 27:15
    69%

    15Those who remain of him shall be buried in death. His widows shall make no lamentation.

  • Ps 101:5
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    5I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won't tolerate one who is haughty and conceited.

  • Isa 26:5
    68%

    5For he has brought down those who dwell on high, the lofty city. He lays it low. He lays it low even to the ground. He brings it even to the dust.

  • Amos 5:9
    68%

    9who brings sudden destruction on the strong, so that destruction comes on the fortress.

  • Prov 14:31
    68%

    31He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

  • Isa 2:12
    68%

    12For there will be a day of Yahweh of Armies for all that is proud and haughty, and for all that is lifted up; and it shall be brought low:

  • Prov 29:23
    68%

    23A man's pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.

  • Ps 52:5
    68%

    5God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.

  • Ps 145:20
    68%

    20Yahweh preserves all those who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy.

  • Prov 15:24
    68%

    24The path of life leads upward for the wise, to keep him from going downward to Sheol.

  • Ps 109:9
    68%

    9Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

  • Jer 15:8
    68%

    8Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas; I have brought on them against the mother of the young men a destroyer at noonday: I have caused anguish and terrors to fall on her suddenly.

  • Isa 3:14
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    14Yahweh will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, and their leaders: "It is you who have eaten up the vineyard. The spoil of the poor is in your houses.