Proverbs 22:8

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Proverbs 22:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible

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.

8 He who sows injustice will reap disaster, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.

9 A generous man will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.

10 Drive out the mocker, and conflict will depart; even quarreling and insults will cease.

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

Job 4:8

As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.

Hosea 8:7

For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.

Hosea 10:13

You have plowed wickedness and reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your own way and in the multitude of your mighty men,

Galatians 6:7

Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return.

Galatians 6:8

The one who sows to please his flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; but the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.

Proverbs 14:3

The proud speech of a fool brings a rod to his back, but the lips of the wise protect them.

Psalms 125:3

For the scepter of the wicked will not rest upon the land allotted to the righteous, so that the righteous will not put forth their hands to injustice.

Isaiah 9:4

For as in the day of Midian You have shattered the yoke of their burden, the bar across their shoulders, and the rod of their oppressor.

Isaiah 10:5

Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.

Isaiah 14:29

Do not rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken. For a viper will spring from the root of the snake, and a flying serpent from its egg.

Isaiah 30:31

For Assyria will be shattered at the voice of the LORD; He will strike them with His scepter.