Proverbs 11:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ The righteousness of the upright saves them, but the treacherous are taken captive by their schemes.

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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.

Proverbs 11:6 Cross References

Ecclesiastes 10:8

Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, and whoever breaks through a wall will be bitten by a snake.

Proverbs 5:22

The iniquities of the wicked ensnare them, and they are caught in the coils of their sin.

1 Kings 2:44

The king also said to Shimei, “You know in your own heart all the evil that you did to my father David, so the Lord will bring back your evil on your own head.

Genesis 31:37

Although you have felt about through all my goods, what have you found of all your household goods? Set it here before my kinsfolk and your kinsfolk, so that they may decide between us two.

Genesis 30:33

So my honesty will answer for me later, when you come to look into my wages with you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats and black among the lambs, if found with me, shall be counted stolen.”

Judges 20:41

Then the main body of Israel turned, and the Benjaminites were dismayed, for they saw that disaster was close upon them.

Psalm 9:15

The nations have sunk in the pit that they made; in the net that they hid has their own foot been caught.

Proverbs 11:9

With their mouths the godless would destroy their neighbors, but by knowledge the righteous are delivered.