Proverbs 5:22

A Conservative Version

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

Cross References

Proverbs 11:5

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

Proverbs 1:18

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

Psalm 9:15

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

Hebrews 13:4

Marriage is precious in every way, and the undefiled bed, but God will judge fornicators and adulterers.

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 have forsaken LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, says the Lord, L

Ecclesiastes 7:26

And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, [and] whose hands are chains. He who pleases God shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be taken by her.

Proverbs 11:3

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

Numbers 32:23

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

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.

Psalm 40:12

for innumerable evils have encompassed me around. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed me.

Lamentations 1:14

The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand. They are knit together. They have come up upon my neck. He has made my strength to fail. LORD has delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.

Judges 9:57

And God requited all the wickedness of the men of Shechem upon their heads. And the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal came upon them.

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 LORD, and thou have 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 be hanged on the gallows.

Job 18:8

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

Psalm 9:17

Wicked men shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.

Proverbs 11:6

The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them, but the treacherous shall be taken in their own iniquity.

Proverbs 12:14

A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth, and the actions of a man's hands shall be rendered to him.

Proverbs 14:32

An evil man is thrust down in his evil-doing, but a righteous man has 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 say, Behold, we did not know this, Does not he who weighs the hearts consider it? And he who keeps thy soul, does he not know it? And shall not he render to every man according to his work?

Proverbs 26:27

He who digs a pit shall fall in it, and he who rolls a stone, it shall return upon him.

Obadiah 1:15

For the day of LORD is near upon all the nations. As thou have done, it shall be done to thee. Thy dealing shall return upon thine own head.