Proverbs 11:6 - The Scriptures 2009

⁶ The righteousness of the straight ones delivers them, But the treacherous are caught by greed.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: But transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ The righteousness of the upright [their rectitude in every area and relation] shall deliver them, but the treacherous shall be taken in their own iniquity and greedy desire.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them; But the treacherous shall be taken in their own iniquity.

Common English Bible

⁶ Those who do right are saved by their righteousness, but the untrustworthy are caught by their own desires.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ The justice of the upright shall free them. And the iniquitous will be seized by their own treachery.

Proverbs 11:6 Cross References

Genesis 30:33

“And my righteousness shall answer for me in time to come, when you come concerning my wages: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the lambs, it is stolen if it is with me.”

Genesis 31:37

“Now that you have searched all my goods what have you found of all your household goods? Set it here before my brothers and your brothers, and let them decide between the two of us!

1 Kings 2:44

The sovereign also said to Shim‛i, “You shall know all the evil that your heart has known, that you did to my father Dawiḏ. And יהוה shall return your evil on your own head.

Psalm 9:15

Tet The nations have sunk down in the pit which they made; In the net which they hid, their own foot is caught.

Proverbs 11:9

The defiled one destroys his neighbour with his mouth, But the righteous is delivered by knowledge.

Proverbs 5:22

The wrong one is entrapped In his own crookednesses, And he is caught in the cords of his sin.

Ecclesiastes 10:8

He who digs a pit falls into it, and whoever breaks through a wall is bitten by a snake.

Judges 20:41

And when the men of Yisra’ĕl turned back, the men of Binyamin were troubled, for they saw that calamity was close to them.