Proverbs 11:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 The integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The integrity of the upright shall guide them: But the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the willful contrariness and crookedness of the treacherous shall destroy them. American Standard Version (1901) The integrity of the upright shall guide them; But the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them. Common English Bible Integrity guides the virtuous, but dishonesty ruins the treacherous. Catholic Public Domain Version The simplicity of the just shall direct them, and the rebellion of the perverse will devastate them. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The simplicity of the just shall guide them: and the deceitfulness of the wicked shall destroy them. |
Vindicate me, O Lord, for I have walked in my integrity, and I have trusted in the Lord without wavering.
The righteousness of the blameless keeps their ways straight, but the wicked fall by their own wickedness.
Righteousness guards one whose way is upright, but sin overthrows the wicked.
but the wicked will be cut off from the earth, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.
The violence of the wicked will sweep them away because they refuse to do what is just.
The eyes of the Lord keep watch over knowledge, but he overthrows the words of the faithless.
One who walks in integrity will be safe, but whoever follows crooked ways will fall into the Pit.
Do not be too wicked, and do not be a fool; why should you die before your time?
But rebels and sinners shall be destroyed together, and those who forsake the Lord shall be consumed.
They killed the kings of Midian: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian, in addition to others who were slain by them, and they also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword.
Anyone who resolves to do the will of God will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own.