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Righteousness guards people of integrity, but wickedness undermines the sinner.
The integrity of the upright guides them, but the perversity of the treacherous destroys them.
The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked; he brings the wicked to ruin.
A wicked man’s iniquities will trap him; he will become tangled in the ropes of his own sin.
He sacrificed to the gods of Damascus which had defeated him; he said, ‘Since the gods of the kings of Aram are helping them, I will sacrifice to them so that they will help me.’ But they were the downfall of him and of all Israel.
The way of the Lord is a stronghold for the honourable, but destruction awaits evildoers.
Those with twisted minds are detestable to the Lord, but those with blameless conduct are his delight.
Then Solomon said, ‘If he is a man of character, not a single hair of his will fall to the ground, but if evil is found in him, he dies.’
This was the sin that caused the house of Jeroboam to be cut off and obliterated from the face of the earth.