Proverbs 14:27

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Proverbs 14:25–29 · Berean Standard Bible

25 A truthful witness saves lives, but one who utters lies is deceitful.

26 He who fears the LORD is secure in confidence, and his children shall have a place of refuge.

27 The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, turning a man from the snares of death.

28 A large population is a king’s splendor, but a lack of subjects is a prince’s ruin.

29 A patient man has great understanding, but a quick-tempered man promotes folly.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Proverbs 13:14

The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, turning one from the snares of death.

Isaiah 33:6

He will be the sure foundation for your times, a storehouse of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge. The fear of the LORD is Zion’s treasure.

Revelation 21:6

And He told me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give freely from the spring of the water of life.

Proverbs 2:10

For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will delight your soul.

Proverbs 2:11

Discretion will watch over you, and understanding will guard you,

Proverbs 2:12

to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perversity,

Proverbs 2:13

from those who leave the straight paths to walk in the ways of darkness,

Proverbs 2:14

from those who enjoy doing evil and rejoice in the twistedness of evil,

Proverbs 2:15

whose paths are crooked and whose ways are devious.

Proverbs 2:16

It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words

Proverbs 2:17

who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.

Proverbs 2:18

For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits.

Proverbs 22:5

Thorns and snares lie on the path of the perverse; he who guards his soul stays far from them.

Psalms 18:5

The cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared.