Proverbs 28:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴ Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law struggle against them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ They that forsake the law praise the wicked: But such as keep the law contend with them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ Those who forsake the law [of God and man] praise the wicked, but those who keep the law [of God and man] contend with them. [Prov. 29:18.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ They that forsake the law praise the wicked; But such as keep the law contend with them.

Common English Bible

⁴ Those who abandon Instruction praise the wicked, but those who follow Instruction battle them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ Those who abandon the law praise the impious. Those who guard it are inflamed against him.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ They that forsake the law, praise the wicked man: they that keep it, are incensed against him.

Proverbs 28:4 Krydshenvisninger

1 Kings 18:18

He answered, “I have not troubled Israel, but you have, and your father’s house, because you have forsaken the commandments of the Lord and followed the Baals.

1 Kings 18:21

Elijah then came near to all the people and said, “How long will you go limping with two different opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him, but if Baal, then follow him.” The people did not answer him a word.

Nehemiah 13:15

In those days I saw in Judah people treading winepresses on the Sabbath and bringing in heaps of grain and loading them on donkeys, and also wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of burdens that they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, and I warned them at that time against selling food.

Nehemiah 13:28

And one of the sons of Jehoiada, son of the high priest Eliashib, was the son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonite; I chased him away from me.

Psalm 10:3

For the wicked boast of the desires of their heart; those greedy for gain curse and renounce the Lord.

Psalm 49:18

Though in their lifetime they count themselves happy —for you are praised when you do well for yourself—

Jeremiah 5:30

An appalling and horrible thing has happened in the land:

Matthew 14:4

because John had been telling him, “It is not lawful for you to have her.”

Matthew 3:15

But Jesus answered him, “Let it be so now, for it is proper for us in this way to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he consented.

Matthew 3:7

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

Acts 12:22

The people kept shouting, “The voice of a god and not of a mortal!”

Acts 15:2

And after Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and debate with them, Paul and Barnabas and some of the others were appointed to go up to Jerusalem to discuss this question with the apostles and the elders.

Acts 19:9

When some stubbornly refused to believe and spoke evil of the Way before the congregation, he left them, taking the disciples with him, and argued daily in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.

Romans 1:32

They know God’s decree, that those who practice such things deserve to die, yet they not only do them but even applaud others who practice them.

Ephesians 5:11

Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness; rather, expose them.

1 Thessalonians 2:2

but though we had already suffered and been shamefully mistreated at Philippi, as you know, we had courage in our God to declare to you the gospel of God in spite of great opposition.

1 John 4:5

They are from the world; therefore what they say is from the world, and the world listens to them.

Jude 1:3

Beloved, while eagerly preparing to write to you about the salvation we share, I find it necessary to write and appeal to you to contend for the faith that was once and for all handed on to the saints.