Proverbs 29:24

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Proverbs 29:22–26 · Berean Standard Bible

22 An angry man stirs up dissension, and a hot-tempered man abounds in transgression.

23 A man’s pride will bring him low, but a humble spirit will obtain honor.

24 A partner to a thief hates his own soul; he receives the oath, but does not testify.

25 The fear of man is a snare, but whoever trusts in the LORD is set securely on high.

26 Many seek the ruler’s favor, but a man receives justice from the LORD.

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

Proverbs 1:11

If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause,

Proverbs 1:12

let us swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those descending into the Pit.

Proverbs 1:13

We will find all manner of precious goods; we will fill our houses with plunder.

Proverbs 1:14

Throw in your lot with us; let us all share one purse”—

Proverbs 1:15

my son, do not walk the road with them or set foot upon their path.

Proverbs 1:16

For their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed blood.

Proverbs 1:17

How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it!

Proverbs 1:18

But they lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives.

Proverbs 1:19

Such is the fate of all who are greedy, whose unjust gain takes the lives of its possessors.

Psalms 50:18

When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers.

Psalms 50:19

You unleash your mouth for evil and unharness your tongue for deceit.

Psalms 50:20

You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.

Psalms 50:21

You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you. But now I rebuke you and accuse you to your face.

Psalms 50:22

Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:

Isaiah 1:23

Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.

Mark 11:17

Then Jesus began to teach them, and He declared, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’”

Proverbs 6:32

He who commits adultery lacks judgment; whoever does so destroys himself.

Proverbs 8:36

But he who fails to find me harms himself; all who hate me love death.”

Proverbs 15:32

He who ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever heeds correction gains understanding.

Proverbs 20:2

The terror of a king is like the roar of a lion; whoever provokes him forfeits his own life.

Leviticus 5:1

“If someone sins by failing to testify when he hears a public charge about something he has witnessed, whether he has seen it or learned of it, he shall bear the iniquity.

Judges 17:2

said to his mother, “The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from you and about which I heard you utter a curse—I have the silver here with me; I took it.” Then his mother said, “Blessed be my son by the LORD!”