Proverbs 28:4 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

Romans 1:32

who, knowing the ordinance of God, that they which practise such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also consent with them that practise them.

Ephesians 5:11

and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them;

Matthew 14:4

For John said unto him, It is not lawful for thee to have her.

Matthew 3:7

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said unto them, Ye offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Psalm 49:18

Though while he lived he blessed his soul, And men praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself,

1 Kings 18:18

And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and thou hast followed the Baalim.

Jude 1:3

Beloved, while I was giving all diligence to write unto you of our common salvation, I was constrained to write unto you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered unto the saints.

1 John 4:5

They are of the world: therefore speak they as of the world, and the world heareth them.

Acts 15:2

And when Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and questioning with them, the brethren appointed that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.

Psalm 10:3

For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, And the covetous renounceth, yea, contemneth the LORD.

1 Kings 18:21

And Elijah came near unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.

1 Thessalonians 2:2

but having suffered before, and been shamefully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, we waxed bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God in much conflict.

Acts 19:9

But when some were hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.

Acts 12:22

And the people shouted, saying, The voice of a god, and not of a man.

Matthew 3:15

But Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it now: for thus it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness. Then he suffereth him.

Jeremiah 5:30

A wonderful and horrible thing is come to pass in the land;

Nehemiah 13:28

And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son in law to Sanballat the Horonite: therefore I chased him from me.

Nehemiah 13:15

In those days saw I in Judah some treading winepresses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses therewith; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals.