Proverbs 5:22

Bible in Basic English 1965

The evil-doer will be taken in the net of his crimes, and prisoned in the cords of his sin.

Cross References

1 Kings 18:18

Then he said in answer, I have not been troubling Israel, but you and your family; because, turning away from the orders of the Lord, you have gone after the Baals.

Esther 9:25

But when the business was put before the king, he gave orders by letters that the evil design which he had made against the Jews was to be turned against himself; and that he and his sons were to be put to death by hanging.

Job 18:8

His feet take him into the net, and he goes walking into the cords.

Psalm 40:12

For unnumbered evils are round about me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I am bent down with their weight; they are more than the hairs of my head, my strength is gone because of them.

Psalm 9:15

The nations have gone down into the hole which they made: in their secret net is their foot taken.

Psalm 9:17

The sinners and all the nations who have no memory of God will be turned into the underworld.

Proverbs 1:18

And they are secretly waiting for their blood and making ready destruction for themselves.

Proverbs 11:3

The righteousness of the upright will be their guide, but the twisted ways of the false will be their destruction.

Proverbs 11:5

The righteousness of the good man will make his way straight, but the sin of the evil-doer will be the cause of his fall.

Proverbs 11:6

The righteousness of the upright will be their salvation, but the false will themselves be taken in their evil designs.

Proverbs 12:14

From the fruit of his mouth will a man have good food in full measure, and the work of a man's hands will be rewarded.

Proverbs 14:32

The sinner is overturned in his evil-doing, but the upright man has hope in his righteousness.

Proverbs 18:7

The mouth of a foolish man is his destruction, and his lips are a net for his soul.

Proverbs 24:12

If you say, See, we had no knowledge of this: does not the tester of hearts give thought to it? and he who keeps your soul, has he no knowledge of it? and will he not give to every man the reward of his work?

Proverbs 26:27

He who makes a hole in the earth will himself go falling into it: and on him by whom a stone is rolled the stone will come back again.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

And I saw a thing more bitter than death, even the woman whose heart is full of tricks and nets, and whose hands are as bands. He with whom God is pleased will get free from her, but the sinner will be taken by her.

Jeremiah 2:19

The evil you yourselves have done will be your punishment, your errors will be your judge: be certain then, and see that it is an evil and a bitter thing to give up the Lord your God, and no longer to be moved by fear of me, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.

Lamentations 1:14

A watch is kept on my sins; they are joined together by his hand, they have come on to my neck; he has made my strength give way: the Lord has given me up into the hands of those against whom I have no power.

Obadiah 1:15

For the day of the Lord is coming quickly on all nations: as you have done it will be done to you; the reward of your acts will come on your head.

Numbers 32:23

But if you do not do this, then you are sinners against the Lord; and you may be certain that your sin will have its reward.

Hebrews 13:4

Let married life be honoured among all of you and not made unclean; for men untrue in married life will be judged by God.

Judges 20:41

And the men of Israel had made a turn about, and the men of Benjamin were overcome with fear, for they saw that evil had overtaken them.

Judges 9:57

And God sent back on to the heads of the men of Shechem all the evil they had done, and the curse of Jotham, the son of Jerubbaal, came on them.