Proverbs 28:5

World English Bible (2000)

Evil men don't understand justice; but those who seek Yahweh understand it fully.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 92:6 : 6 A senseless man doesn't know, neither does a fool understand this:
  • John 7:17 : 17 If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.
  • 1 John 2:20 : 20 You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.
  • 1 John 2:27 : 27 As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don't need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.
  • Jas 1:5 : 5 But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.
  • Ps 25:14 : 14 The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.
  • 1 Cor 2:14-15 : 14 Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one.
  • Ps 119:100 : 100 I understand more than the aged, because I have kept your precepts.
  • Prov 15:24 : 24 The path of life leads upward for the wise, to keep him from going downward to Sheol.
  • Prov 24:7 : 7 Wisdom is too high for a fool: he doesn't open his mouth in the gate.
  • Jer 4:22 : 22 "For my people are foolish, they don't know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but to do good they have no knowledge."
  • Mark 4:10-13 : 10 When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve asked him about the parables. 11 He said to them, "To you is given the mystery of the Kingdom of God, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables, 12 that 'seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.'" 13 He said to them, "Don't you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?

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    19 The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don't know what they stumble over.

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    6 For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.

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    9 It is not the great who are wise, nor the aged who understand justice.

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  • Isa 31:2
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    4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don't call on Yahweh?

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    2 A good man shall obtain favor from Yahweh, but he will condemn a man of wicked devices.