Proverbs 5:22

Webster's Bible (1833)

The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 7:15-16 : 15 He has dug a hole, And has fallen into the pit which he made. 16 The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.
  • 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 But these lay 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 schemes. 32 For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.
  • Prov 11:3 : 3 The integrity of the upright shall guide them, But the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.
  • Prov 11:5 : 5 The righteousness of the blameless will direct his way, But the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
  • Eccl 7:26 : 26 I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.
  • Jer 2:19 : 19 Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backsliding shall reprove you: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you, says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts.
  • Hos 4:11-14 : 11 Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding. 12 My people consult with their wooded idol, And answer to a stick of wood. Indeed the spirit of prostitution has led them astray, And they have been unfaithful to their God. 13 They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains, And burn incense on the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, Because its shade is good. Therefore your daughters play the prostitute, And your brides commit adultery. 14 I will not punish your daughters when they play the prostitute, Nor your brides when they commit adultery; Because the men consort with prostitutes, And they sacrifice with the shrine prostitutes; And the people that does not understand will come to ruin.
  • 1 Cor 5:9-9 : 9 I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners; 10 yet not at all meaning with the sexual sinners of this world, or with the covetous and extortioners, or with idolaters; for then you would have to leave the world.
  • Gal 5:19-21 : 19 Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies, 21 envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
  • Gal 6:7-8 : 7 Don't be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that will he also reap. 8 For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
  • Eph 5:5-6 : 5 Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, 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 on the children of disobedience.
  • Heb 13:4 : 4 Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
  • Num 32:23 : 23 But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against Yahweh; and be sure your sin will find you out.

Similar Verses (AI)

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

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    23He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.

  • Isa 5:18
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    18Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, And wickedness as with cart rope;

  • Prov 11:5-6
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    5The righteousness of the blameless will direct his way, But the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

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  • Prov 22:5
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    5Thorns and snares are in the path of the wicked: Whoever guards his soul stays from them.

  • Prov 28:10
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    10Whoever causes the upright to go astray in an evil way, He will fall into his own trap; But the blameless will inherit good.

  • 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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  • Isa 3:11
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    11Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; For the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him.

  • Ezek 18:26
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    26When the righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and dies therein; in his iniquity that he has done shall he die.

  • Prov 5:21
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    21For the ways of man are before the eyes of Yahweh. He examines all his paths.

  • Prov 22:8
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    8He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, And the rod of his fury will be destroyed.

  • Job 20:11
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    11His bones are full of his youth, But youth shall lie down with him in the dust.

  • Job 22:5
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    5Isn't your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.

  • Ezek 18:18
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    18As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, robbed his brother, and did that which is not good among his people, behold, he shall die in his iniquity.

  • Job 36:17
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    17"But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you.

  • Ezek 33:18
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    18When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall even die therein.

  • Prov 6:15
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    15Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.

  • Job 20:22
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    22In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress shall overtake him: The hand of everyone who is in misery shall come on him.

  • Jer 5:25
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    25Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you.

  • Prov 13:6
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    6Righteousness guards the way of integrity, But wickedness overthrows the sinner.

  • Ps 35:8
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    8Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.

  • Prov 21:18
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    18The wicked is a ransom for the righteous; The treacherous for the upright.

  • Job 21:19-20
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    19You say, 'God lays up his iniquity for his children.' Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.

    20Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

  • Ps 7:15-16
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    15He has dug a hole, And has fallen into the pit which he made.

    16The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.

  • Job 5:13
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    13He takes the wise in their own craftiness; The counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

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    19He who is truly righteous gets life. He who pursues evil gets death.

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    12The guilt of Ephraim is stored up. His sin is stored up.

  • Prov 1:31
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    31Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, And be filled with their own schemes.

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    6An evil man is snared by his sin, But the righteous can sing and be glad.

  • Job 20:27
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    27The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, The earth shall rise up against him.

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    2Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evil-doers, and against the help of those who work iniquity.

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    23He has brought on them their own iniquity, And will cut them off in their own wickedness. Yahweh, our God, will cut them off.

  • Prov 12:13
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    13An evil man is trapped by sinfulness of lips, But the righteous shall come out of trouble.

  • Job 14:22
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    22But his flesh on him has pain; His soul within him mourns."

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    2You are trapped by the words of your mouth. You are ensnared with the words of your mouth.

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    24But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done shall be remembered: in his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them shall he die.

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    22For it hurls at him, and does not spare, As he flees away from his hand.

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    8If they are bound in fetters, And are taken in the cords of afflictions,

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    3The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

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    25Lest you learn his ways, And ensnare your soul.

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    36But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death."

  • Ezek 18:20
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    20The soul who sins, he shall die: the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.

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    5Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol.