Proverbs 15:25

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The Lord tears down the house of the proud but maintains the widow’s boundaries.

Cross References

Job 24:21

“They harm the childless woman and do no good to the widow.

Psalm 10:14

But you do see! Indeed, you note trouble and grief, that you may take it into your hands; the helpless commit themselves to you; you have been the helper of the orphan.

Psalm 138:6

For though the Lord is high, he regards the lowly, but the haughty he perceives from far away.

Psalm 146:9

The Lord watches over the strangers; he upholds the orphan and the widow, but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.

Psalm 52:1

Why do you boast, O mighty one, of mischief done against the godly? All day long

Psalm 52:5

But God will break you down forever; he will snatch and tear you from your tent; he will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah

Proverbs 12:7

The wicked are overthrown and are no more, but the house of the righteous will stand.

Proverbs 14:11

The house of the wicked is destroyed, but the tent of the upright flourishes.

Proverbs 15:26

Evil plans are an abomination to the Lord, but gracious words are pure.

Proverbs 23:10

Do not remove an ancient landmark or encroach on the fields of orphans,

Isaiah 1:17

learn to do good; seek justice; rescue the oppressed; defend the orphan; plead for the widow.

Isaiah 2:12

For the Lord of hosts has a day against all that is proud and lofty, against all that is lifted up and high;

Jeremiah 5:28

they have grown fat and sleek. They know no limits in deeds of wickedness; they do not judge with justice the cause of the orphan, to make it prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy.

Daniel 5:20

But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit was hardened so that he acted proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and his glory was stripped from him.

Deuteronomy 19:14

“You must not move your neighbor’s boundary marker, set up by former generations, on the property that will be allotted to you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess.

James 1:27

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

1 Peter 5:5

In the same way, you who are younger must be subject to the elders. And all of you must clothe yourselves with humility in your dealings with one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”