Proverbs 11:6

Modern English Version

The righteousness of the upright will deliver them, but the treacherous will be caught by their desires.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 10:8

The one who digs a pit will fall into it, and the one who breaks through a wall will be bitten by a serpent.

Proverbs 5:22

The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is caught in the cords of his sin.

1 Kings 2:44

The king also said to Shimei, “You know all the wickedness in your heart and what you did to David my father. Therefore the Lord shall return your wickedness on your own head.

Genesis 31:37

You have searched all my things, and yet what have you found of all your household things? Set it here before my kinsmen and your kinsmen, so that they may judge between us both.

Genesis 30:33

So my integrity will answer for me in time to come. When you come to examine my wages, every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep that are with me will be considered stolen.”

Judges 20:41

Then the men of Israel turned around, and the men of Benjamin were horrified because they saw that disaster had come on them.

Psalm 9:15

The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made; their own foot is caught in the net which they hid.

Proverbs 11:9

The hypocrite with his mouth destroys his neighbor, but by knowledge the righteous will be delivered.