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Proverbs 1:32
Proverbs 1:32 is verse 32 of Proverbs chapter 1, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
For the waywardness of the simple will slay them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them.
King James Version
For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
World English Bible
For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.
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Proverbs 1:30–33 · Berean Standard Bible
30 They accepted none of my counsel; they despised all my reproof.
31 So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
32 For the waywardness of the simple will slay them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them.
33 But whoever listens to me will dwell in safety, secure from the fear of evil.”
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Cross-references
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Proverbs 8:36But he who fails to find me harms himself; all who hate me love death.”
John 3:36Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. Whoever rejects the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.”
Hebrews 10:38But My righteous one will live by faith; and if he shrinks back, I will take no pleasure in him.”
Hebrews 10:39But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.
Hebrews 12:25See to it that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if the people did not escape when they refused Him who warned them on earth, how much less will we escape if we reject Him who warns us from heaven?
Deuteronomy 32:15But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked— becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.
Deuteronomy 32:16They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.
Deuteronomy 32:17They sacrificed to demons, not to God, to gods they had not known, to newly arrived gods, which your fathers did not fear.
Deuteronomy 32:18You ignored the Rock who brought you forth; you forgot the God who gave you birth.
Deuteronomy 32:19When the LORD saw this, He rejected them, provoked to anger by His sons and daughters.
Deuteronomy 32:20He said: “I will hide My face from them; I will see what will be their end. For they are a perverse generation— children of unfaithfulness.
Deuteronomy 32:21They have provoked My jealousy by that which is not God; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation without understanding.
Deuteronomy 32:22For a fire has been kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains.
Deuteronomy 32:23I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend My arrows against them.
Deuteronomy 32:24They will be wasted from hunger and ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague; I will send the fangs of wild beasts against them, with the venom of vipers that slither in the dust.
Deuteronomy 32:25Outside, the sword will take their children, and inside, terror will strike the young man and the young woman, the infant and the gray-haired man.
Deuteronomy 32:26I would have said that I would cut them to pieces and blot out their memory from mankind,
Deuteronomy 32:27if I had not dreaded the taunt of the enemy, lest their adversaries misunderstand and say: ‘Our own hand has prevailed; it was not the LORD who did all this.’”
Deuteronomy 32:28Israel is a nation devoid of counsel, with no understanding among them.
Deuteronomy 32:29If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.
Deuteronomy 32:30How could one man pursue a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD had given them up?
Deuteronomy 32:31For their rock is not like our Rock, even our enemies concede.
Deuteronomy 32:32But their vine is from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poisonous; their clusters are bitter.
Deuteronomy 32:33Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.
Deuteronomy 32:34“Have I not stored up these things, sealed up within My vaults?
Deuteronomy 32:35Vengeance is Mine; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; for their day of disaster is near, and their doom is coming quickly.”
Deuteronomy 32:36For the LORD will vindicate His people and have compassion on His servants when He sees that their strength is gone and no one remains, slave or free.
Deuteronomy 32:37He will say: “Where are their gods, the rock in which they took refuge,
Deuteronomy 32:38which ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let them rise up and help you; let them give you shelter!
Deuteronomy 32:39See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.
Deuteronomy 32:40For I lift up My hand to heaven and declare: As surely as I live forever,
Deuteronomy 32:41when I sharpen My flashing sword, and My hand grasps it in judgment, I will take vengeance on My adversaries and repay those who hate Me.
Deuteronomy 32:42I will make My arrows drunk with blood, while My sword devours flesh— the blood of the slain and captives, the heads of the enemy leaders.”
Deuteronomy 32:43Rejoice, O heavens, with Him, and let all God’s angels worship Him. Rejoice, O nations, with His people; for He will avenge the blood of His children. He will take vengeance on His adversaries and repay those who hate Him; He will cleanse His land and His people.
Deuteronomy 32:44Then Moses came with Joshua son of Nun and recited all the words of this song in the hearing of the people.
Psalms 69:22May their table become a snare; may it be a retribution and a trap.
Psalms 92:6A senseless man does not know, and a fool does not understand,
Psalms 92:7that though the wicked sprout like grass, and all evildoers flourish, they will be forever destroyed.
Luke 12:16Then He told them a parable: “The ground of a certain rich man produced an abundance.
Luke 12:17So he thought to himself, ‘What shall I do, since I have nowhere to store my crops?’
Luke 12:18Then he said, ‘This is what I will do: I will tear down my barns and will build bigger ones, and there I will store up all my grain and my goods.
Luke 12:19Then I will say to myself, “You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take it easy. Eat, drink, and be merry!”’
Luke 12:20But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’
Luke 12:21This is how it will be for anyone who stores up treasure for himself but is not rich toward God.”
Luke 16:19Now there was a rich man dressed in purple and fine linen, who lived each day in joyous splendor.
Luke 16:20And a beggar named Lazarus lay at his gate, covered with sores
Luke 16:21and longing to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores.
Luke 16:22One day the beggar died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. And the rich man also died and was buried.
Luke 16:23In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham from afar, with Lazarus by his side.
Luke 16:24So he cried out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue. For I am in agony in this fire.’
Luke 16:25But Abraham answered, ‘Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things. But now he is comforted here, while you are in agony.
Hebrews 12:8If you do not experience discipline like everyone else, then you are illegitimate children and not true sons.
James 5:5You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in the day of slaughter.
Jeremiah 48:11Moab has been at ease from youth, settled like wine on its dregs; he has not been poured from vessel to vessel or gone into exile. So his flavor has remained the same, and his aroma is unchanged.
Jeremiah 48:12Therefore behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will send to him wanderers, who will pour him out. They will empty his vessels and shatter his jars.