Proverbs 24:16

New International Version

for though the righteous fall seven times, they rise again, but the wicked stumble when calamity strikes.

Cross References

Genesis 19:35

So they got their father to drink wine that night also, and the younger daughter went in and slept with him. Again he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.

Esther 7:10

So they impaled Haman on the pole he had set up for Mordecai. Then the king’s fury subsided.

Job 5:19

From six calamities he will rescue you; in seven no harm will touch you.

Psalm 34:19

The righteous person may have many troubles, but the Lord delivers him from them all;

Psalm 34:21

Evil will slay the wicked; the foes of the righteous will be condemned.

Psalm 37:24

though he may stumble, he will not fall, for the Lord upholds him with his hand.

Psalm 52:5

Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin: He will snatch you up and pluck you from your tent; he will uproot you from the land of the living.

Psalm 7:16

The trouble they cause recoils on them; their violence comes down on their own heads.

Psalm 79:12

Pay back into the laps of our neighbors seven times the contempt they have hurled at you, Lord.

Proverbs 13:17

A wicked messenger falls into trouble, but a trustworthy envoy brings healing.

Proverbs 13:21

Trouble pursues the sinner, but the righteous are rewarded with good things.

Proverbs 14:32

When calamity comes, the wicked are brought down, but even in death the righteous seek refuge in God.

Proverbs 24:22

for those two will send sudden destruction on them, and who knows what calamities they can bring?

Proverbs 6:15

Therefore disaster will overtake him in an instant; he will suddenly be destroyed—without remedy.

Jeremiah 18:17

Like a wind from the east, I will scatter them before their enemies; I will show them my back and not my face in the day of their disaster.”

Jeremiah 8:4

“Say to them, ‘This is what the Lord says: “ ‘When people fall down, do they not get up? When someone turns away, do they not return?

Ezekiel 7:5

“This is what the Sovereign Lord says: “ ‘Disaster! Unheard-of disaster! See, it comes!

Amos 5:2

“Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again, deserted in her own land, with no one to lift her up.”

Amos 8:14

Those who swear by the sin of Samaria— who say, ‘As surely as your god lives, Dan,’ or, ‘As surely as the god of Beersheba lives’— they will fall, never to rise again.”

Numbers 32:23

“But if you fail to do this, you will be sinning against the Lord; and you may be sure that your sin will find you out.

Acts 12:23

Immediately, because Herod did not give praise to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

While people are saying, “Peace and safety,” destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

1 Samuel 26:10

As surely as the Lord lives,” he said, “the Lord himself will strike him, or his time will come and he will die, or he will go into battle and perish.

1 Samuel 31:4

Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and run me through, or these uncircumcised fellows will come and run me through and abuse me.” But his armor-bearer was terrified and would not do it; so Saul took his own sword and fell on it.