Proverbs 19:28

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Proverbs 19:26–29 · Berean Standard Bible

26 He who assaults his father or evicts his mother is a son who brings shame and disgrace.

27 If you cease to hear instruction, my son, you will stray from the words of knowledge.

28 A corrupt witness mocks justice, and a wicked mouth swallows iniquity.

29 Judgments are prepared for mockers, and beatings for the backs of fools.

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

1 Kings 21:10

But seat two scoundrels opposite him and have them testify, ‘You have cursed both God and the king!’ Then take him out and stone him to death.”

1 Kings 21:13

And the two scoundrels came in and sat opposite Naboth, and these men testified against him before the people, saying, “Naboth has cursed both God and the king!” So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death.

Acts 6:11

Then they prompted some men to say, “We heard Stephen speak words of blasphemy against Moses and against God.”

Acts 6:12

So they stirred up the people, elders, and scribes and confronted Stephen. They seized him and brought him before the Sanhedrin,

Acts 6:13

where they presented false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking against this holy place and against the law.

Psalms 10:5

He is secure in his ways at all times; Your lofty judgments are far from him; he sneers at all his foes.

Psalms 10:11

He says to himself, “God has forgotten; He hides His face and never sees.”

Isaiah 28:14

Therefore hear the word of the LORD, O scoffers who rule this people in Jerusalem.

Isaiah 28:15

For you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol. When the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not touch us, because we have made lies our refuge and falsehood our hiding place.”

Isaiah 28:16

So this is what the Lord GOD says: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; the one who believes will never be shaken.

Isaiah 28:17

I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the level. Hail will sweep away your refuge of lies, and water will flood your hiding place.

Isaiah 28:18

Your covenant with death will be dissolved, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand. When the overwhelming scourge passes through, you will be trampled by it.

Luke 18:2

“In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected men.

Luke 18:3

And there was a widow in that town who kept appealing to him, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’

Luke 18:4

For a while he refused, but later he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect men,

Proverbs 15:14

A discerning heart seeks knowledge, but the mouth of a fool feeds on folly.

Job 15:16

how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?

Job 20:12

Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he conceals it under his tongue,

Job 20:13

though he cannot bear to let it go and keeps it in his mouth,

Job 34:7

What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water?

Hosea 4:8

They feed on the sins of My people and set their hearts on iniquity.