Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.
A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.
A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
Proverbs 11:23 The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of …
Proverbs 24:9 The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men.
Psalm 119:15 I will meditate in your precepts, and have respect to your ways.
Psalm 139:23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
Isaiah 55:7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: …
Jeremiah 4:14 O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. …
counsels
Psalm 12:2,3 They speak vanity every one with his neighbor: with flattering lips …
Psalm 36:2-4 For he flatters himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found …
Psalm 41:6,7 And if he come to see me, he speaks vanity: his heart gathers iniquity …
Psalm 140:1-3 Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man…
Matthew 2:3-8,16 When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and …
Matthew 26:4 And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtlety, and kill him.
1 Corinthians 4:5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who …
2 Corinthians 4:2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in …
The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
words
Proverbs 1:11-19 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk …
2 Samuel 17:1-4 Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve …
Isaiah 59:7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: …
Jeremiah 5:26 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that …
Micah 7:1,2 Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, …
Acts 23:12,15 And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound …
Acts 25:3 And desired favor against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, …
Esther 4:7-14 And Mordecai told him of all that had happened to him…
Esther 7:4-6 For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and …
The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.
wicked
Proverbs 11:21 Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but …
Proverbs 14:11 The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of …
Proverbs 15:25 The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish …
Esther 9:6-10,14 And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men…
Job 5:3,4 I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation…
Job 11:20 But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, …
Job 18:15-20 It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone …
Job 27:18-23 He builds his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper makes…
Psalm 37:10,35-37 For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yes, you shall …
Psalm 73:18,19 Surely you did set them in slippery places: you cast them down into …
the house
Proverbs 14:1 Every wise woman builds her house: but the foolish plucks it down …
Proverbs 24:3,4 Through wisdom is an house built; and by understanding it is established…
2 Samuel 7:16,26 And your house and your kingdom shall be established for ever before …
Matthew 7:24-27 Therefore whoever hears these sayings of mine, and does them, I will …
A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.
commended
Genesis 41:39 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, For as much as God has showed you all …
1 Samuel 16:18 Then answered one of the servants, and said, Behold, I have seen …
1 Samuel 18:30 Then the princes of the Philistines went forth: and it came to pass, …
Ecclesiastes 8:1 Who is as the wise man? and who knows the interpretation of a thing? …
Luke 12:42-44 And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom …
Luke 16:8 And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely…
1 Corinthians 3:10-15 According to the grace of God which is given to me, as a wise master …
1 Corinthians 4:5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who …
2 Corinthians 10:18 For not he that commends himself is approved, but whom the Lord commends.
he
Proverbs 1:26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear comes;
Proverbs 3:35 The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.
Proverbs 5:23 He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly …
1 Samuel 13:13 And Samuel said to Saul, You have done foolishly: you have not kept …
1 Samuel 25:17 Now therefore know and consider what you will do; for evil is determined …
Psalm 132:18 His enemies will I clothe with shame: but on himself shall his crown flourish.
Daniel 12:2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, …
Malachi 2:8,9 But you are departed out of the way; you have caused many to stumble …
Matthew 27:4,5 Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. …
Acts 12:23 And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave …
of a perverse heart
He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.
he that is or rather, as in the old translation 'He that is despised, and is his own servant, is better than he that boasteth himself and wanteth bread;' with which the versions generally agree. That is, it is better to be in lowness and obscurity, and to support oneself by manual labour, than to want the necessaries of life, through a foolish vanity, or with the pride of birth, which refuses to labour.
despised
Proverbs 13:7 There is that makes himself rich, yet has nothing: there is that …
Luke 14:11 For whoever exalts himself shall be abased; and he that humbles himself …
A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
righteous
Genesis 33:13,14 And he said to him, My lord knows that the children are tender, and …
Numbers 22:28-32 And the LORD opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, …
Deuteronomy 25:4 You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the corn.
John 4:11 The woman said to him, Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the …
but
Genesis 37:26-28 And Judah said to his brothers, What profit is it if we slay our …
Judges 1:7 And Adonibezek said, Three score and ten kings, having their thumbs …
1 Samuel 11:2 And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, On this condition will I make …
John 19:31,32 The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies …
James 2:13-16 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that has showed no mercy; …
tender mercies
1 John 3:17 But whoever has this world's good, and sees his brother have need, …
He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.
tilleth
Proverbs 13:23 Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed …
Proverbs 14:4,23 Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the …
Proverbs 27:27 And you shall have goats' milk enough for your food, for the food …
Proverbs 28:19 He that tills his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that follows …
Genesis 3:19 In the sweat of your face shall you eat bread, till you return to …
Psalm 128:2 For you shall eat the labor of your hands: happy shall you be, and …
Ephesians 4:28 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working …
1 Thessalonians 4:11,12 And that you study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and …
2 Thessalonians 3:8 Neither did we eat any man's bread for nothing; but worked with labor …
he that followeth
Proverbs 1:10 My son, if sinners entice you, consent you not.
Proverbs 4:14,15 Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men…
Proverbs 6:32 But whoever commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding: he …
Proverbs 7:7 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a …
Proverbs 9:6,13 Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding…
Proverbs 13:20 He that walks with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools …
Judges 9:4 And they gave him three score and ten pieces of silver out of the …
Psalm 26:4 I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.
John 2:8 And he said to them, Draw out now, and bear to the governor of the …
Titus 1:10,11 For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially …
The wicked desireth the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit.
desireth
Proverbs 1:17-19 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird…
Proverbs 29:5,6 A man that flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet…
Psalm 9:15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which …
Psalm 10:9 He lies in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lies in wait to …
Jeremiah 5:26-28 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that …
Micah 7:2 The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright …
Habakkuk 1:15-17 They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their …
net or fortress
Proverbs 10:15 The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the …
the root
Psalm 1:3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that …
Isaiah 27:6 He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall …
Isaiah 37:31 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again …
Jeremiah 17:7,8 Blessed is the man that trusts in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is…
Luke 8:13-15 They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word …
John 15:5,16 I am the vine, you are the branches: He that stays in me, and I in …
Romans 6:22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, you …
The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.
wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips. or snare of the wicked is in the transgression of the lips;
Proverbs 6:2 You are snared with the words of your mouth, you are taken with the …
Proverbs 15:2 The tongue of the wise uses knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools …
Proverbs 18:6,7 A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calls for strokes…
1 Kings 2:23 Then king Solomon swore by the LORD, saying, God do so to me, and more also…
Psalm 5:6 You shall destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the …
Psalm 64:8 So they shall make their own tongue to fall on themselves: all that …
Daniel 6:24 And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused …
Matthew 27:25 Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.
but
Proverbs 11:8 The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked comes in his stead.
Genesis 48:16 The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let …
2 Samuel 4:9 And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon …
Psalm 34:19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivers …
Ecclesiastes 7:18 It is good that you should take hold of this; yes, also from this …
Romans 8:35-37 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, …
2 Peter 2:9 The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to …
A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth: and the recompence of a man's hands shall be rendered unto him.
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.
way
Proverbs 3:7 Be not wise in your own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.
Proverbs 14:16 A wise man fears, and departs from evil: but the fool rages, and is confident.
Proverbs 16:2,25 All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weighs …
Proverbs 25:12,16 As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise …
Proverbs 28:11 The rich man is wise in his own conceit; but the poor that has understanding …
Proverbs 30:12 There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is …
Luke 18:11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank you, …
Galatians 6:3 For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he …
but
Proverbs 1:5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding …
Proverbs 9:9 Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a …
Proverbs 19:20 Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.
Ecclesiastes 4:13 Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who …
Jeremiah 38:15 Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, If I declare it to you, will you …
A fool's wrath is presently known: but a prudent man covereth shame.
He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.
that
Proverbs 14:5,25 A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies…
1 Samuel 22:14,15 Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who is so faithful …
but
Proverbs 6:19 A false witness that speaks lies, and he that sows discord among brothers.
Proverbs 19:5,28 A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaks lies …
Proverbs 21:28 A false witness shall perish: but the man that hears speaks constantly.
Proverbs 24:28 Be not a witness against your neighbor without cause; and deceive …
Matthew 15:19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, …
Matthew 26:59 Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false …
Acts 6:13 And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceases not to speak …
1 Peter 3:16 Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as …
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
that
Proverbs 25:18 A man that bears false witness against his neighbor is a maul, and …
Psalm 52:2 The tongue devises mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Psalm 57:4 My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on …
Psalm 59:7 Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: …
Psalm 64:3 Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot …
James 3:6-8 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among …
like
Revelation 1:16 And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went …
but
Proverbs 10:20,21 The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked …
Proverbs 13:17 A wicked messenger falls into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.
Proverbs 15:7 The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish …
Proverbs 16:24 Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Daniel 11:33 And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet …
Revelation 22:2 In the middle of the street of it, and on either side of the river, …
The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellers of peace is joy.
deceit
Proverbs 12:12 The wicked desires the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous …
Proverbs 26:24-26 He that hates dissembles with his lips, and lays up deceit within him…
Jeremiah 17:16 As for me, I have not hastened from being a pastor to follow you: …
Mark 7:21,22 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, …
Mark 12:14-17 And when they were come, they say to him, Master, we know that you …
Romans 1:29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, …
but
Isaiah 9:6,7 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given: and the government …
Zechariah 6:13 Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the …
Matthew 5:9 Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
Hebrews 12:14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall …
1 Peter 3:8-13 Finally, be you all of one mind, having compassion one of another, …
There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief.
no
Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love …
1 Corinthians 3:22,23 Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, …
2 Corinthians 4:17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, works for us …
filled
Proverbs 1:31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled …
Proverbs 14:14 The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a …
Jeremiah 13:12-14 Therefore you shall speak to them this word; Thus said the LORD God …
Habakkuk 2:16 You are filled with shame for glory: drink you also, and let your …
Revelation 18:6 Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double to her double according …
Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.
lying
Proverbs 6:16,17 These six things does the LORD hate: yes, seven are an abomination to him…
Psalm 5:6 You shall destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the …
Isaiah 9:15 The ancient and honorable, he is the head; and the prophet that teaches …
Ezekiel 13:19,22 And will you pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and …
Revelation 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, …
Revelation 22:15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and fornicators, and murderers, …
but
Proverbs 11:1,20 A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight…
Proverbs 15:8 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the …
Jeremiah 9:24 But let him that glories glory in this, that he understands and knows …
A prudent man concealeth knowledge: but the heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness.
The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.
Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.
heaviness
Proverbs 14:10 The heart knows his own bitterness; and a stranger does not intermeddle …
Proverbs 15:13,15,23 A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the …
Proverbs 17:22 A merry heart does good like a medicine: but a broken spirit dries the bones.
Proverbs 18:14 The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit …
Nehemiah 2:1,2 And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of …
Psalm 38:6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
Psalm 42:11 Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disquieted within …
Mark 14:33,34 And he takes with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore …
but
Proverbs 12:18 There is that speaks like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue …
Proverbs 15:23 A man has joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due …
Proverbs 16:24 Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Proverbs 25:11 A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Proverbs 27:9 Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so does the sweetness of …
Isaiah 50:4 The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of the learned, that I should …
Zechariah 1:13 And the LORD answered the angel that talked with me with good words …
2 Corinthians 2:4-7 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with …
The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.
righteous
Proverbs 12:13 The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just …
Proverbs 17:27 He that has knowledge spares his words: and a man of understanding …
Psalm 16:3 But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in …
Matthew 5:46-48 For if you love them which love you, what reward have you? do not …
Luke 6:32-36 For if you love them which love you, what thank have you? for sinners …
1 Peter 2:18-21 Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the …
excellent or abundant
but
Psalm 18:12,13 At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail …
James 1:13,14 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot …
2 Peter 2:18-22 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through …
1 John 2:26 These things have I written to you concerning them that seduce you.
Revelation 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, …
Revelation 13:14 And deceives them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles …
The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man is precious.
In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no death.
Proverbs 8:35 For whoever finds me finds life, and shall obtain favor of the LORD.
Proverbs 9:11 For by me your days shall be multiplied, and the years of your life …
Proverbs 10:16 The labor of the righteous tends to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.
Proverbs 11:19 As righteousness tends to life: so he that pursues evil pursues it …
Ezekiel 18:9,20-24 Has walked in my statutes, and has kept my judgments, to deal truly; …
Romans 5:21 That as sin has reigned to death, even so might grace reign through …
Romans 6:22,23 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, you …
Titus 2:11,12 For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men…
1 John 2:29 If you know that he is righteous, you know that every one that does …
1 John 3:7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that does righteousness …
3 John 1:11 Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He …
