Proverbs 5:22

American King James Version (1999)

His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be held with the cords of his sins.

Cross References

1 Kings 18:18

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

Esther 9:25

But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return on 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 on a snare.

Psalm 40:12

For innumerable evils have compassed me about: my iniquities have taken hold on me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head: therefore my heart fails me.

Psalm 9:15

The heathen 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 be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.

Proverbs 1:18

And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privately for their own lives.

Proverbs 11:3

The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors 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 transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.

Proverbs 12:14

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

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous 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 you say, Behold, we knew it not; does not he that ponders the heart consider it? and he that keeps your soul, does not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?

Proverbs 26:27

Whoever digs a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolls a stone, it will return on him.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

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

Jeremiah 2:19

Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backslidings shall reprove you: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that you have forsaken the LORD your God, and that my fear is not in you, said the Lord GOD of hosts.

Lamentations 1:14

The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up on my neck: he has made my strength to fall, the LORD has delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.

Obadiah 1:15

For the day of the LORD is near on all the heathen: as you have done, it shall be done to you: your reward shall return on your own head.

Numbers 32:23

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

Hebrews 13:4

Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Judges 20:41

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

Judges 9:57

And all the evil of the men of Shechem did God render on their heads: and on them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.