Proverbs 29:24

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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, although able to testify as one who has seen or learned of the matter, do 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!” 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!”