Verse 5

The righteousness of the perfect maketh right his way, And by his wickedness doth the wicked fall.

Referenced Verses

• Prov 5:22 : 22 His own iniquities do capture the wicked, And with the ropes of his sin he is holden.
• Prov 11:3 : 3 The integrity of the upright leadeth them, And the perverseness of the treacherous destroyeth them.
• Matt 27:4-5 : 4 `I did sin, having delivered up innocent blood;' and they said, `What -- to us? thou shalt see!' 5 and having cast down the silverlings in the sanctuary, he departed, and having gone away, he did strangle himself.
• 2 Sam 17:23 : 23 And Ahithophel hath seen that his counsel was not done, and he saddleth the ass, and riseth and goeth unto his house, unto his city, and giveth charge unto his household, and strangleth himself, and dieth, and he is buried in the burying-place of his father.
• Esth 7:3-9 : 3 And Esther the queen answereth and saith, `If I have found grace in thine eyes, O king, and if to the king `it be' good, let my life be given to me at my petition, and my people at my request; 4 for we have been sold, I and my people, to cut off, to slay, and to destroy; and if for men-servants and for maid-servants we had been sold I had kept silent -- but the adversity is not equal to the loss of the king.' 5 And the king Ahasuerus saith, yea, he saith to Esther the queen, `Who `is' he -- this one? and where `is' this one? -- he whose heart hath filled him to do so?' 6 And Esther saith, `The man -- adversary and enemy -- `is' this wicked Haman;' and Haman hath been afraid at the presence of the king and of the queen. 7 And the king hath risen, in his fury, from the banquet of wine, unto the garden of the house, and Haman hath remained to seek for his life from Esther the queen, for he hath seen that evil hath been determined against him by the king. 8 And the king hath turned back out of the garden of the house unto the house of the banquet of wine, and Haman is falling on the couch on which Esther `is', and the king saith, `Also to subdue the queen with me in the house?' the word hath gone out from the mouth of the king, and the face of Haman they have covered. 9 And Harbonah, one of the eunuchs, saith before the king, `Also lo, the tree that Haman made for Mordecai, who spake good for the king, is standing in the house of Haman, in height fifty cubits;' and the king saith, `Hang him upon it.' 10 And they hang Haman upon the tree that he had prepared for Mordecai, and the fury of the king hath lain down.
• Ps 9:15-16 : 15 Sunk have nations in a pit they made, In a net that they hid hath their foot been captured. 16 Jehovah hath been known, Judgment He hath done, By a work of his hands Hath the wicked been snared. Meditation. Selah.
• Prov 1:31-32 : 31 And they eat of the fruit of their way, And from their own counsels they are filled. 32 For the turning of the simple slayeth them, And the security of the foolish destroyeth them.
• Prov 3:6 : 6 In all thy ways know thou Him, And He doth make straight thy paths.