Proverbs 11:5

A Conservative Version

The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way, but the wicked man shall fall by his own wickedness.

Cross References

Proverbs 5:22

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

Proverbs 11:3

The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.

Proverbs 3:6

In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he will direct thy paths.

2 Samuel 17:23

And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, and arose, and got home to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself. And he died, and was buried in the sepulcher of his father.

Judges 20:41

And the men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed, for they saw that evil had come upon them.

Proverbs 12:3

A man shall not be established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.

Proverbs 21:29

A wicked man hardens his face, but as for an upright man, he establishes his ways.

Job 18:7

The steps of his strength shall be restricted, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

Proverbs 1:18

and these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.

Proverbs 13:6

Righteousness guards him who is upright in the way, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.

Proverbs 14:32

An evil man is thrust down in his evil-doing, but a righteous man has hope in his death.

Proverbs 15:19

The way of the sluggard is as a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is made a highway.

Proverbs 28:18

He who walks uprightly shall be delivered, but he who is perverse in [his] ways shall fall at once.

Isaiah 26:7

The way of the just is uprightness. Thou who are upright directs the path of the just.

Hosea 5:5

And the pride of Israel testifies to his face. Therefore Israel and Ephraim shall stumble in their iniquity. Judah also shall stumble with them.