Proverbs 5:22 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²² His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²² His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²² His own iniquities shall ensnare the wicked man, and he shall be held with the cords of his sin.

American Standard Version (1901)

²² His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.

Common English Bible

²² The wicked will be caught by their own evil acts, grabbed by the ropes of their own sin.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²² His own iniquities take hold of the impious, and he is bound by the cords of his own sins.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²² His own iniquities catch the wicked, and he is fast bound with the ropes of his own sins.

Proverbs 5:22 Cross References

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.

Esther 9:25

but when the matter came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he had devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head; and that he and his sons should he hanged on the gallows.

Job 18:8

For he is cast into a net by his own feet, And he walketh upon the toils.

Psalm 40:12

For innumerable evils have compassed me about, Mine iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up; They are more than the hairs of mine head, and my heart hath failed me.

Psalm 9:15

The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made: In the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

Psalm 9:17

The wicked shall return to Sheol, Even all the nations that forget God.

Proverbs 1:18

And these lay wait for their own blood, They lurk privily for their own lives.

Proverbs 11:3

The integrity of the upright shall guide them: But the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.

Proverbs 11:5

The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: But the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

Proverbs 11:6

The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: But they that deal treacherously shall be taken in their own mischief.

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 14:32

The wicked is thrust down in his evil-doing: But the righteous hath hope in his death.

Proverbs 18:7

A fool's mouth is his destruction, And his lips are the snare of his soul.

Proverbs 24:12

If thou sayest, Behold, we knew not this: Doth not he that weigheth the hearts consider it? And he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? And shall not he render to every man according to his work?

Proverbs 26:27

Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: And he that rolleth a stone, it shall return upon him.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

And I find a thing more bitter than death, even the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

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.

Lamentations 1:14

The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand; they are knit together, they are come up upon my neck; he hath made my strength to fail: the Lord hath delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.

Obadiah 1:15

For the day of the LORD is near upon all the nations: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee; thy dealing shall return upon thine own head.

Numbers 32:23

But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out.

Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be had in honour among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Judges 20:41

And the men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were amazed: for they saw that evil was come upon them.

Judges 9:57

and all the wickedness of the men of Shechem did God requite upon their heads: and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.