Proverbs 28:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁸ One who walks in integrity will be safe, but whoever follows crooked ways will fall into the Pit.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: But he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ He who walks uprightly shall be safe, but he who willfully goes in double and wrong ways shall fall in one of them.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ Whoso walketh uprightly shall be delivered; But he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ Those who walk in innocence will be saved, but those who go on twisted paths will fall into the grave.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ Whoever walks simply shall be saved. Whoever is perverse in his steps will fall all at once.

Proverbs 28:18 Cross References

Proverbs 10:9

Whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but whoever follows perverse ways will be found out.

Proverbs 28:6

Better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be crooked in one’s ways even though rich.

Revelation 3:3

Remember, then, what you received and heard; obey it and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come to you.

Psalm 84:11

For the Lord God is a sun and shield; he bestows favor and honor. No good thing does the Lord withhold from those who walk uprightly.

Numbers 22:32

The angel of the Lord said to him, “Why have you struck your donkey these three times? I have come out as an adversary because your way is perverse before me.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

When they say, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them, as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and there will be no escape!

Galatians 2:14

But when I saw that they were not acting consistently with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, “If you, though a Jew, live like a gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the gentiles to live like Jews?”

Proverbs 10:25

When the tempest passes, the wicked are no more, but the righteous are established forever.

Psalm 125:5

But those who turn aside to their own crooked ways, the Lord will lead away with evildoers. Peace be upon Israel!

Psalm 26:11

But as for me, I walk in my integrity; redeem me and be gracious to me.

Psalm 25:21

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

Proverbs 10:27

The fear of the Lord prolongs life, but the years of the wicked will be short.

Numbers 22:21

So Balaam got up in the morning, saddled his donkey, and went with the officials of Moab.

Numbers 22:35

The angel of the Lord said to Balaam, “Go with the men, but speak only what I tell you to speak.” So Balaam went on with the officials of Balak.

Proverbs 28:10

Those who mislead the upright into evil ways will fall into pits of their own making, but the blameless will have a goodly inheritance.