Proverbs 15:25

Modern English Version

The Lord will destroy the house of the proud, but He will maintain the boundary of the widow.

Cross References

Job 24:21

He preys on the barren who do not bear, and does no good for the widow.

Psalm 10:14

You have seen it, for You observe trouble and grief, to repay it with Your hand. The helpless commits himself to You; You are the helper of the orphan.

Psalm 138:6

Though the Lord is exalted, yet has He regard for the lowly, but the proud He knows from afar.

Psalm 146:9

The Lord watches over the strangers; He relieves the fatherless and widow, but the way of the wicked He turns upside down.

Psalm 52:1

Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The goodness of God endures continually.

Psalm 52:5

But God will break you down forever; He will snatch you away and pluck you from your home, and uproot you from the land of the living.    Selah

Proverbs 12:7

The wicked are overthrown and are no more, but the house of the righteous will stand.

Proverbs 14:11

The house of the wicked will be destroyed, but the tent of the upright will flourish.

Proverbs 15:26

The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord, but the words of the pure are pleasant.

Proverbs 23:10

Remove not the ancient landmark, nor enter the fields of the fatherless,

Isaiah 1:17

learn to do good; seek justice, relieve the oppressed; judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Isaiah 2:12

For the day of the Lord of Hosts shall be upon everything that is proud and lofty, and upon everything that is lifted up, and it shall be brought low;

Jeremiah 5:28

They are fat, they are sleek. Indeed, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They do not judge the cause of the fatherless, so that they may prosper; and the right of the needy they do not defend.

Daniel 5:20

But when his heart was lifted up and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne and they took his glory from him.

Deuteronomy 19:14

You shall not remove your neighbor’s landmark, which they of old time have set in your inheritance, which you shall inherit in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess.

James 1:27

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

1 Peter 5:5

Likewise you younger ones, submit yourselves to the elders. Yes, all of you be submissive one to another and clothe yourselves with humility, because “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”