Proverbs 24:16

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

for though they fall seven times, they will rise again, but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

Cross References

Genesis 19:35

So they made their father drink wine that night also, and the younger rose and lay with him, and he did not know when she lay down or when she rose.

Esther 7:10

So they hung Haman on the pole that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the anger of the king abated.

Job 5:19

He will deliver you from six troubles; in seven no harm shall touch you.

Psalm 34:19

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord rescues them from them all.

Psalm 34:21

Evil brings death to the wicked, and those who hate the righteous will be condemned.

Psalm 37:24

though we stumble, we shall not fall headlong, for the Lord holds us by the hand.

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

Psalm 7:16

Their mischief returns upon their own heads, and on their own heads their violence descends.

Psalm 79:12

Return sevenfold into the bosom of our neighbors the taunts with which they taunted you, O Lord!

Proverbs 13:17

A bad messenger brings trouble, but a faithful envoy, healing.

Proverbs 13:21

Misfortune pursues sinners, but prosperity rewards the righteous.

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked are overthrown by their evildoing, but the righteous find a refuge in their integrity.

Proverbs 24:22

for disaster comes from them suddenly, and who knows the ruin that both can bring?

Proverbs 6:15

on such a one calamity will descend suddenly, in a moment, damage beyond repair.

Jeremiah 18:17

Like the wind from the east, I will scatter them before the enemy. I will show them my back, not my face, in the day of their calamity.

Jeremiah 8:4

You shall say to them, Thus says the Lord: When people fall, do they not get up again? If they go astray, do they not turn back?

Ezekiel 7:5

Thus says the Lord God: Disaster after disaster! See, it comes.

Amos 5:2

Fallen, no more to rise, is maiden Israel; forsaken on her land, with no one to raise her up.

Amos 8:14

Those who swear by Ashimah of Samaria and say, “As your god lives, O Dan,” and, “As the way of Beer-sheba lives”— they shall fall and never rise again.

Numbers 32:23

But if you do not do this, you have sinned against the Lord, and be sure your sin will find you out.

Acts 12:23

And immediately, because he had not given the glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

When they say, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them, as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and there will be no escape!

1 Samuel 26:10

David said, “As the Lord lives, the Lord will strike him down, or his day will come to die, or he will go down into battle and perish.

1 Samuel 31:4

Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and thrust me through with it, so that these uncircumcised may not come and thrust me through and make sport of me.” But his armor-bearer was unwilling, for he was terrified. So Saul took his own sword and fell on it.