Proverbs 29:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁸ Where there is no prophecy, the people cast off restraint, but happy are those who keep the law.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ Where there is no vision, the people perish: But he that keepeth the law, happy is he.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ Where there is no vision [no redemptive revelation of God], the people perish; but he who keeps the law [of God, which includes that of man]–blessed (happy, fortunate, and enviable) is he. [I Sam. 3:1; Amos 8:11, 12.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ Where there is no vision, the people cast off restraint; But he that keepeth the law, happy is he.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ When there’s no vision, the people get out of control, but whoever obeys instruction is happy.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ When prophecy fails, the people will be scattered. Yet truly, whoever guards the law is blessed.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ When prophecy shall fail, the people shall be scattered abroad: but he that keepeth the law is blessed.

Proverbs 29:18 Cross References

2 Chronicles 28:19

For the Lord brought Judah low because of King Ahaz of Israel, for he had behaved without restraint in Judah and had been faithless to the Lord.

Psalm 106:3

Happy are those who observe justice, who do righteousness at all times.

Psalm 119:1

Happy are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord.

Psalm 119:2

Happy are those who keep his decrees, who seek him with their whole heart,

Psalm 19:11

Moreover, by them is your servant warned; in keeping them there is great reward.

Psalm 74:9

We do not see our emblems; there is no longer any prophet, and there is no one among us who knows how long.

Exodus 32:25

When Moses saw that the people were out of control (for Aaron had lost control of them, prompting derision among their enemies),

Proverbs 19:16

Those who keep the commandment will live; those who are heedless of their ways will die.

Proverbs 29:19

By mere words slaves are not disciplined, for though they understand, they will not give heed.

Proverbs 8:32

“And now, my children, listen to me: happy are those who keep my ways.

Hosea 4:6

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge! Because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me; and since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.

Matthew 9:36

When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.

Luke 11:28

But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it!”

John 13:17

If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.

James 1:25

But those who look into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and persevere, being not hearers who forget but doers who act—they will be blessed in their doing.

Revelation 22:14

Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they will have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by the gates.

1 Samuel 3:1

Now the boy Samuel was ministering to the Lord under Eli. The word of the Lord was rare in those days; visions were not widespread.