Proverbs 11:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ The integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ The integrity of the upright shall guide them: But the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the willful contrariness and crookedness of the treacherous shall destroy them.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ The integrity of the upright shall guide them; But the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.

Common English Bible

³ Integrity guides the virtuous, but dishonesty ruins the treacherous.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ The simplicity of the just shall direct them, and the rebellion of the perverse will devastate them.

Proverbs 11:3 Cross References

Proverbs 13:6

Righteousness guards one whose way is upright, but sin overthrows the wicked.

Proverbs 28:18

One who walks in integrity will be safe, but whoever follows crooked ways will fall into the Pit.

Proverbs 19:3

One’s own folly leads to ruin, yet the heart rages against the Lord.

Psalm 26:1

Vindicate me, O Lord, for I have walked in my integrity, and I have trusted in the Lord without wavering.

Psalm 25:21

May integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you.

John 7:17

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.

Ecclesiastes 7:17

Do not be too wicked, and do not be a fool; why should you die before your time?

Proverbs 11:5

The righteousness of the blameless keeps their ways straight, but the wicked fall by their own wickedness.

Isaiah 1:28

But rebels and sinners shall be destroyed together, and those who forsake the Lord shall be consumed.

Proverbs 21:7

The violence of the wicked will sweep them away because they refuse to do what is just.

Proverbs 2:22

but the wicked will be cut off from the earth, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.

Proverbs 22:12

The eyes of the Lord keep watch over knowledge, but he overthrows the words of the faithless.

Numbers 31:8

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.