Proverbs 28:18 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁸ He who walks in integrity will be delivered, but he who is perverse in his ways will fall into a 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

He who walks in integrity walks securely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out.

Proverbs 28:6

Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than a rich man who is perverse in his ways.

Revelation 3:3

Remember then what you received and heard; keep that, and repent. If you will not awake, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come upon 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

And the angel of the Lord said to him, “Why have you struck your ass these three times? Behold, I have come forth to withstand you, because your way is perverse before me;

1 Thessalonians 5:3

When people say, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as travail comes upon a woman with child, and there will be no escape.

Galatians 2:14

But when I saw that they were not straightforward about 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 is no more, but the righteous is established for ever.

Psalm 125:5

But those who turn aside upon their crooked ways the Lord will lead away with evildoers! Peace be in 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 thee.

Proverbs 10:27

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

Numbers 22:21

So Balaam rose in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab.

Numbers 22:35

And the angel of the Lord said to Balaam, “Go with the men; but only the word which I bid you, that shall you speak.” So Balaam went on with the princes of Balak.

Proverbs 28:10

He who misleads the upright into an evil way will fall into his own pit; but the blameless will have a goodly inheritance.