Proverbs 22:5

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Proverbs 22:3–7 · Berean Standard Bible

3 The prudent see danger and take cover, but the simple keep going and suffer the consequences.

4 The rewards of humility and the fear of the LORD are wealth and honor and life.

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

6 Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

7 The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender.

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The way of the slacker is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is a highway.

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know for sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become for you a snare and a trap, a scourge in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the LORD your God has given you.

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For his own feet lead him into a net, and he wanders into its mesh.

Psalms 11:6

On the wicked He will rain down fiery coals and sulfur; a scorching wind will be their portion.

Psalms 18:26

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Psalms 18:27

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He who guards his mouth protects his life, but the one who opens his lips invites his own ruin.

Proverbs 16:17

The highway of the upright leads away from evil; he who guards his way protects his life.

Proverbs 19:16

He who keeps a commandment preserves his soul, but he who is careless in his ways will die.

Psalms 91:1

He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.

1 John 5:18

We know that anyone born of God does not keep on sinning; the One who was born of God protects him, and the evil one cannot touch him.

Jude 1:20

But you, beloved, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,

Jude 1:21

keep yourselves in the love of God as you await the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you eternal life.