Proverbs 11:6 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

⁶ The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: But transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ The righteousness of the upright [their rectitude in every area and relation] shall deliver them, but the treacherous shall be taken in their own iniquity and greedy desire.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them; But the treacherous shall be taken in their own iniquity.

Common English Bible

⁶ Those who do right are saved by their righteousness, but the untrustworthy are caught by their own desires.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ The justice of the upright shall free them. And the iniquitous will be seized by their own treachery.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ The justice of the righteous shall deliver them: and the unjust shall be caught in their own snares.

Proverbs 11:6 Cross References

Genesis 30:33

So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.

Genesis 31:37

Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us both.

1 Kings 2:44

The king said moreover to Shim´e-i, Thou knowest all the wickedness which thine heart is privy to, that thou didst to David my father; therefore the Lord shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head:

Psalm 9:15

The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

Proverbs 11:9

A hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbor: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.

Proverbs 5:22

His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.

Ecclesiastes 10:8

He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh a hedge, a serpent shall bite him.

Judges 20:41

And when the men of Israel turned again, the men of Benjamin were amazed: for they saw that evil was come upon them.