Proverbs 14:14 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁴ The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: And a good man shall be satisfied from himself.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: And a good man shall be satisfied from himself.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ The backslider in heart [from God and from fearing God] shall be filled with [the fruit of] his own ways, and a good man shall be satisfied with [the fruit of] his ways [with the holy thoughts and actions which his heart prompts and in which he delights].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways; And a good man shall be satisfied from himself.

Common English Bible

¹⁴ Rebellious hearts receive satisfaction from their ways; the good receive the due reward for their deeds.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ The foolish will be filled up by his own ways. And the good man shall be above him.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁴ A fool shall be filled with his own ways, and the good man shall be above him.

Proverbs 14:14 Cross References

Psalm 109:17

Yea, he loved cursing, and it came unto him; And he delighted not in blessing, and it was far from him.

Proverbs 12:14

A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth: And the doings of a man's hands shall be rendered unto him.

Proverbs 12:21

There shall no mischief happen to the righteous: But the wicked shall be filled with evil.

Proverbs 14:10

The heart knoweth its own bitterness; And a stranger doth not intermeddle with its joy.

Proverbs 14:15

The simple believeth every word: But the prudent man looketh well to his going.

Proverbs 18:20

A man's belly shall be filled with the fruit of his mouth; With the increase of his lips shall he be satisfied.

Proverbs 9:12

If thou art wise, thou art wise for thyself: And if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.

Jeremiah 17:5

Thus saith the LORD: Cursed is the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.

Jeremiah 2:19

Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.

Jeremiah 8:5

Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.

Ezekiel 22:31

Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I brought upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD.

Hosea 4:16

For Israel hath behaved himself stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer: now will the LORD feed them as a lamb in a large place.

Zephaniah 1:6

and them that are turned back from following the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor inquired after him.

John 4:14

but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall become in him a well of water springing up unto eternal life.

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

Galatians 6:4

But let each man prove his own work, and then shall he have his glorying in regard of himself alone, and not of his neighbour.

Galatians 6:8

For he that soweth unto his own flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth unto the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap eternal life.

Hebrews 3:12

Take heed, brethren, lest haply there shall be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God: