Proverbs 11:6

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Honesty can keep you safe, but if you can't be trusted, you trap yourself.

Cross References

Genesis 30:33

In the future you can easily find out if I've been honest. Just look and see if my animals are either spotted or speckled, or if the lambs are black. If they aren't, they've been stolen from you.

Genesis 31:37

After searching through everything I have, did you find anything of yours? If so, put it here, where your relatives and mine can see it. Then we can decide what to do.

1 Kings 2:44

I know you remember all the cruel things you did to my father David. Now the LORD is going to punish you for what you did.

Psalm 9:15

Our LORD, the nations fell into their own pits, and their feet were caught in their own traps.

Proverbs 11:9

Dishonest people use gossip to destroy their neighbours; good people are protected by their own good sense.

Proverbs 5:22

Sinners are trapped and caught by their own evil deeds.

Ecclesiastes 10:8

If you dig a pit, you might fall in; if you break down a wall, a snake might bite you.