Proverbs 28:4 - Revised Standard Version CI

⁴ Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law strive against them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ They that forsake the law praise the wicked: But such as keep the law contend with them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ Those who forsake the law [of God and man] praise the wicked, but those who keep the law [of God and man] contend with them. [Prov. 29:18.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ They that forsake the law praise the wicked; But such as keep the law contend with them.

Common English Bible

⁴ Those who abandon Instruction praise the wicked, but those who follow Instruction battle them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ Those who abandon the law praise the impious. Those who guard it are inflamed against him.

Proverbs 28:4 Cross References

1 Kings 18:18

And he answered, “I have not troubled Israel; but you have, and your father's house, because you have forsaken the commandments of the Lord and followed the Baals.

1 Kings 18:21

And Elijah came near to all the people, and said, “How long will you go limping with two different opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” And the people did not answer him a word.

Nehemiah 13:15

In those days I saw in Judah men treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in heaps of grain and loading them on asses; and also wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day; and I warned them on the day when they sold food.

Nehemiah 13:28

And one of the sons of Jehoiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was the son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonite; therefore I chased him from me.

Psalm 10:3

For the wicked boasts of the desires of his heart, and the man greedy for gain curses and renounces the Lord.

Psalm 49:18

Though, while he lives, he counts himself happy, and though a man gets praise when he does well for himself,

Jeremiah 5:30

An appalling and horrible thing has happened in the land:

Matthew 14:4

because John said to him, “It is not lawful for you to have her.”

Matthew 3:15

But Jesus answered him, “Let it be so now; for thus it is fitting for us to fulfil all righteousness.” Then he consented.

Matthew 3:7

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Acts 12:22

And the people shouted, “The voice of a god, and not of man!”

Acts 15:2

And when Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and debate with them, Paul and Barnabas and some of the others were appointed to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and the elders about this question.

Acts 19:9

but when some were stubborn and disbelieved, speaking evil of the Way before the congregation, he withdrew from them, taking the disciples with him, and argued daily in the hall of Tyrannus.

Romans 1:32

Though they know God's decree that those who do such things deserve to die, they not only do them but approve those who practice them.

Ephesians 5:11

Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.

1 Thessalonians 2:2

but though we had already suffered and been shamefully treated at Philippi, as you know, we had courage in our God to declare to you the gospel of God in the face of great opposition.

1 John 4:5

They are of the world, therefore what they say is of the world, and the world listens to them.

Jude 1:3

Beloved, being very eager to write to you of our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.