Proverbs 5:22

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

A wicked man’s iniquities will trap him; he will become tangled in the ropes of his own sin.

Cross References

Proverbs 11:5

The righteousness of the blameless clears his path, but the wicked person will fall because of his wickedness.

Proverbs 1:18

but they set an ambush to kill themselves; they attack their own lives.

Hebrews 13:4

Marriage is to be honoured by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, because God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Jeremiah 2:19

Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Recognise  how evil and bitter  it is for you to abandon the  Lord your God and to have no fear of me. This is the declaration of the Lord God of Armies.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

And I find more bitter than death  the woman who is a trap:  her heart a net and her hands chains. The one who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner will be captured by her.

Proverbs 11:3

The integrity of the upright guides them, but the perversity of the treacherous destroys them.

Numbers 32:23

But if you don’t do this, you will certainly sin against the Lord; be sure your sin will catch up with you.

Judges 20:41

Then the men of Israel returned, and the men of Benjamin were terrified when they realised that disaster had struck them.

Lamentations 1:14

My transgressions have been formed into a yoke,  ,, fastened together by his hand; they have been placed on my neck, and the Lord has broken my strength. He has handed me over to those I cannot withstand.

Judges 9:57

God also brought back to the men of Shechem all their evil.  So the curse of Jotham son of Jerubbaal came upon them.

1 Kings 18:18

He replied, ‘I have not ruined Israel, but you and your father’s family have, because you have abandoned the Lord’s commands  and followed the Baals.

Esther 9:25

But when the matter was brought before the king,  he commanded by letter that the evil plan Haman had devised against the Jews return on his own head  and that he should be hanged with his sons on the gallows.

Job 18:8

For his own feet lead him into a net, and he strays into its mesh.

Proverbs 11:6

The righteousness of the upright rescues them, but the treacherous are trapped by their own desires.

Proverbs 12:14

A person will be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth, and the work of a person’s hands will reward him.

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked one is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous one has a refuge in his death.

Proverbs 18:7

A fool’s mouth is his devastation, and his lips are a trap for his life.

Proverbs 24:12

If you say, ‘But we didn’t know about this,’ won’t he who weighs hearts  consider it? Won’t he who protects your life   know? Won’t he repay a person according to his work?

Proverbs 26:27

The one who digs a pit will fall into it, and whoever rolls a stone – it will come back on him.

Obadiah 1:15

For the day of the  Lord   is near, against all the nations. As you have done,  it will be done to you; what you deserve will return on your own head.