Proverbs 5:22

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

1 Kings 18:18

And he answered, “I have not troubled Israel, but you and your father’s house, in that you have forsaken the commandments of the Lord and you have followed the Baals.

Esther 9:25

But when Esther came before the king, he ordered by letter that the wicked plot which Haman had devised against the Jews should come upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

Job 18:8

For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks upon a snare.

Psalm 40:12

For innumerable evils have surrounded me; my iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head; therefore my heart fails me.

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.

Psalm 9:17

The wicked will depart to Sheol, all the nations that forget God.

Proverbs 1:18

but they lie in wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives.

Proverbs 11:3

The integrity of the upright will guide them, but the perverseness of the treacherous will destroy them.

Proverbs 11:5

The righteousness of the blameless will direct his way, but the wicked will fall by his own wickedness.

Proverbs 11:6

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

Proverbs 12:14

A man will be satisfied with good by the fruit of his words, and the work of a man’s hands will be recompensed to him.

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked is banished in his wickedness, but the righteous has a refuge in his death.

Proverbs 18:7

The mouth of a fool is his undoing; his lips are the snare of his soul.

Proverbs 24:12

If you say, “Behold, we did not know this,” does not He who weighs the heart consider it? Does not He who keeps your soul know it? Will He not render to each man according to his deeds?

Proverbs 26:27

He who digs a pit will fall into it, and he who rolls a stone, it will roll back on him.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

And I find more bitter than death a woman whose heart is like snares and nets, whose hands are like prison cells. He who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is captured by her.

Jeremiah 2:19

Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backslidings will reprove you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter for you to have forsaken the Lord your God, and the fear of Me is not in you, says the Lord God of Hosts.

Lamentations 1:14

The yoke of my transgressions was bound; by His hand they were fastened together; they were set upon my neck. He made my strength fail; the Lord delivered me into the hands of those whom I am not able to withstand.

Obadiah 1:15

For the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations; as you have done, it shall be done to you; your deeds shall return on your own head.

Numbers 32:23

“But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the Lord, and be sure your sin will find you out.

Hebrews 13:4

Marriage is to be honored among everyone, and the bed undefiled. But God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

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.

Judges 9:57

God also repaid the evil deeds of the men of Shechem, and the curse of Jotham son of Jerub-Baal came upon them.