Proverbs 5:22

New International Version

The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare them; the cords of their sins hold them fast.

Cross References

1 Kings 18:18

“I have not made trouble for Israel,” Elijah replied. “But you and your father’s family have. You have abandoned the Lord’s commands and have followed the Baals.

Esther 9:25

But when the plot came to the king’s attention, he issued written orders that the evil scheme Haman had devised against the Jews should come back onto his own head, and that he and his sons should be impaled on poles.

Job 18:8

His feet thrust him into a net; he wanders into its mesh.

Psalm 40:12

For troubles without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, and I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart fails within me.

Psalm 9:15

The nations have fallen into the pit they have dug; their feet are caught in the net they have hidden.

Psalm 9:17

The wicked go down to the realm of the dead, all the nations that forget God.

Proverbs 1:18

These men lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush only themselves!

Proverbs 11:3

The integrity of the upright guides them, but the unfaithful are destroyed by their duplicity.

Proverbs 11:5

The righteousness of the blameless makes their paths straight, but the wicked are brought down by their own wickedness.

Proverbs 11:6

The righteousness of the upright delivers them, but the unfaithful are trapped by evil desires.

Proverbs 12:14

From the fruit of their lips people are filled with good things, and the work of their hands brings them reward.

Proverbs 14:32

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

Proverbs 18:7

The mouths of fools are their undoing, and their lips are a snare to their very lives.

Proverbs 24:12

If you say, “But we knew nothing about this,” does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who guards your life know it? Will he not repay everyone according to what they have done?

Proverbs 26:27

Whoever digs a pit will fall into it; if someone rolls a stone, it will roll back on them.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a trap and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner she will ensnare.

Jeremiah 2:19

Your wickedness will punish you; your backsliding will rebuke you. Consider then and realize how evil and bitter it is for you when you forsake the Lord your God and have no awe of me,” declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.

Lamentations 1:14

“My sins have been bound into a yoke; by his hands they were woven together. They have been hung on my neck, and the Lord has sapped my strength. He has given me into the hands of those I cannot withstand.

Obadiah 1:15

“The day of the Lord is near for all nations. As you have done, it will be done to you; your deeds will return upon your own head.

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.

Hebrews 13:4

Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.

Judges 20:41

Then the Israelites counterattacked, and the Benjamites were terrified, because they realized that disaster had come on them.

Judges 9:57

God also made the people of Shechem pay for all their wickedness. The curse of Jotham son of Jerub-Baal came on them.