Proverbs 14:14

New English Translation

The backslider will be paid back from his own ways, but a good person will be rewarded for his.

Cross References

Psalm 109:17

He loved to curse others, so those curses have come upon him. He had no desire to bless anyone, so he has experienced no blessings.

Proverbs 12:14

A person will be satisfied with good from the fruit of his words, and the work of his hands will be rendered to him.

Proverbs 12:21

The righteous do not encounter any harm, but the wicked are filled with calamity.

Proverbs 14:10

The heart knows its own bitterness, and with its joy no one else can share.

Proverbs 14:15

A naive person believes everything, but the shrewd person discerns his steps.

Proverbs 18:20

From the fruit of a person’s mouth his stomach is satisfied, with the product of his lips is he satisfied.

Proverbs 9:12

If you are wise, you are wise to your own advantage, but if you are a mocker, you alone must bear it.

Jeremiah 17:5

The Lord says, “I will put a curse on people who trust in mere human beings, who depend on mere flesh and blood for their strength, and whose hearts have turned away from the Lord.

Jeremiah 2:19

Your own wickedness will bring about your punishment. Your unfaithful acts will bring down discipline on you. Know, then, and realize how utterly harmful it was for you to reject me, the Lord your God, to show no respect for me,” says the Lord God who rules over all.

Jeremiah 8:5

Why, then, do these people of Jerusalem continually turn away from me in apostasy? They hold fast to their deception. They refuse to turn back to me.

Ezekiel 22:31

So I have poured my anger on them, and destroyed them with the fire of my fury. I hereby repay them for what they have done, declares the sovereign Lord.”

Hosea 4:16

Israel has rebelled like a stubborn heifer! Soon the Lord will put them out to pasture like a lamb in a broad field!

Zephaniah 1:6

and those who turn their backs on the Lord and do not want the Lord’s help or guidance.”

John 4:14

But whoever drinks some of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again, but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up to eternal life.”

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our reason for confidence is this: the testimony of our conscience, that with pure motives and sincerity which are from God – not by human wisdom but by the grace of God – we conducted ourselves in the world, and all the more toward you.

Galatians 6:4

Let each one examine his own work. Then he can take pride in himself and not compare himself with someone else.

Galatians 6:8

because the person who sows to his own flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

Hebrews 3:12

See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has an evil, unbelieving heart that forsakes the living God.