Proverbs 29:24

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To be a partner of a thief is to hate one's own life; one hears the victim's curse, but discloses nothing.

Cross References

Proverbs 15:32

Those who ignore instruction despise themselves, but those who heed admonition gain understanding.

Proverbs 20:2

The dread anger of a king is like the growling of a lion; anyone who provokes him to anger forfeits life itself.

Proverbs 6:32

But he who commits adultery has no sense; he who does it destroys himself.

Proverbs 8:36

but those who miss me injure themselves; all who hate me love death.”

Isaiah 1:23

Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not defend the orphan, and the widow's cause does not come before them.

Leviticus 5:1

When any of you sin in that you have heard a public adjuration to testify and—though able to testify as one who has seen or learned of the matter—does not speak up, you are subject to punishment.

Mark 11:17

He was teaching and saying, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers.”

Judges 17:2

He said to his mother, “The eleven hundred pieces of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse, and even spoke it in my hearing,—that silver is in my possession; I took it; but now I will return it to you.” And his mother said, “May my son be blessed by the Lord!”

1 Samuel 20:2

He said to him, “Far from it! You shall not die. My father does nothing either great or small without disclosing it to me; and why should my father hide this from me? Never!”