Proverbs 15:25 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²⁵ The LORD will root up the house of the proud: But he will establish the border of the widow.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁵ The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: But he will establish the border of the widow.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁵ The Lord tears down the house of the proud, but He makes secure the boundaries of the [consecrated] widow.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁵ Jehovah will root up the house of the proud; But he will establish the border of the widow.

Common English Bible

²⁵ The LORD snatches away the arrogant one’s house, but he preserves the widow’s boundaries.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁵ The Lord will demolish the house of the arrogant. And He will make firm the borders of the widow.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁵ The Lord will destroy the house of the proud: and will strengthen the borders of the widow.

Proverbs 15:25 Cross References

Job 24:21

He devoureth the barren that beareth not; And doeth not good to the widow.

Psalm 10:14

Thon hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to take it into thy hand: The helpless committeth himself unto thee; Thou hast been the helper of the fatherless.

Psalm 138:6

For though the LORD be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: But the haughty he knoweth from afar.

Psalm 146:9

The LORD preserveth the strangers; He upholdeth the fatherless and widow; But the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

Psalm 52:1

Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the mercy of God endureth continually.

Psalm 52:5

God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, He shall take thee up, and pluck thee out of thy tent, And root thee out of the land of the living. Selah

Proverbs 12:7

The wicked are overthrown, and are not: But the house of the righteous shall stand.

Proverbs 14:11

The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: But the tent of the upright shall flourish.

Proverbs 15:26

Evil devices are an abomination to the LORD: But pleasant words are pure.

Proverbs 23:10

Remove not the ancient landmark; And enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

Isaiah 1:17

learn to do well; seek judgement, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Isaiah 2:12

For there shall be a day of the LORD of hosts upon all that is proud and haughty, and upon all that is lifted up; and it shall be brought low:

Jeremiah 5:28

They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass in deeds of wickedness: they plead not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they should prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge,

Daniel 5:20

But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:

Deuteronomy 19:14

Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set, in thine inheritance which thou shalt inherit, in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.

James 1:27

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

1 Peter 5:5

Likewise, ye younger, be subject unto the elder. Yea, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to serve one another: for God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.