Proverbs 18:1 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹ The words of the double tongued are as if they were harmless: and they reach even to the inner parts of the bowels. Fear casteth down the slothful: and the souls of the effeminate shall be hungry.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh And intermeddleth with all wisdom.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ HE WHO willfully separates and estranges himself [from God and man] seeks his own desire and pretext to break out against all wise and sound judgment.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ He that separateth himself seeketh his own desire, And rageth against all sound wisdom.

Common English Bible

¹ Unfriendly people look out for themselves; they bicker with sensible people.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ Whoever has a will to withdraw from a friend, seeks occasions; he shall be reproached at all times.

Proverbs 18:1 Cross References

Exodus 33:16

9 He answered: I will shew thee all good, and I will proclaim in the name of the Lord before thee: and I will have mercy on whom I will, and I will be merciful to whom it shall please me.

Proverbs 14:10

7 The impatient man shall work folly: and the crafty man is hateful.

Proverbs 17:14

1 A fool is born to his own disgrace: and even his father shall not rejoice in a fool.

Proverbs 20:19

6 A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth over them the wheel.

Proverbs 20:3

0 Diverse weights and diverse measures, both are abominable before God.

Proverbs 24:21

8 Be not witness without cause against thy neighbour: and deceive not any man with thy lips.

Proverbs 26:17

4 An enemy is known by his lips, when in his heart he entertaineth deceit.

Proverbs 3:21

8 Say not to thy friend: Go, and come again: and to morrow I will give to thee: when thou canst give at present.

Proverbs 8:14

1 That I may enrich them that love me, and may fill their treasures.

Jeremiah 15:17

They shall die by the death of grievous illnesses: they shall not be lamented, and they shall not be buried, they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed with the sword, and with famine: and their carcasses shall be meat for the fowls of the air, and for the beasts of the earth.

Zechariah 7:3

1 But they would not hearken, and they turned away the shoulder to depart: and they stopped their ears, not to hear.

Matthew 13:11

9 When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, there cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart: this is he that received the seed by the way side.

Matthew 13:44

2 He said unto them: Therefore every scribe instructed in the kingdom of heaven, is like to a man that is a householder, who bringeth forth out of his treasure new things and old.

Mark 1:35

3 And he strictly charged him, and forthwith sent him away.

Mark 4:11

9 And the cares of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts after other things entering in choke the word, and it is made fruitless.

Romans 1:1

For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make a commemoration of you;

2 Corinthians 6:17

For although I made you sorrowful by my epistle, I do not repent; and if I did repent, seeing that the same epistle (although but for a time) did make you sorrowful;

Deuteronomy 14:6

1 All birds that are clean you shall eat.

Jude 1:19

Blessed is he, that readeth and heareth the words of this prophecy; and keepeth those things which are written in it; for the time is at hand.