Proverbs 5:22

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The iniquities of the wicked ensnare them, and they are caught in the coils of their sin.

Cross References

1 Kings 18:18

He answered, “I have not troubled Israel, but you have, and your father’s house, because you have forsaken the commandments of the Lord and followed the Baals.

Esther 9:25

but when Esther came before the king, he gave orders in writing that the wicked plot that he had devised against the Jews should come upon his own head and that he and his sons should be hung on the pole.

Job 18:8

For they are thrust into a net by their own feet, and they walk into a pitfall.

Psalm 40:12

For evils have encompassed me without number; my iniquities have overtaken me until I cannot see; they are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart fails me.

Psalm 9:15

The nations have sunk in the pit that they made; in the net that they hid has their own foot been caught.

Psalm 9:17

The wicked shall depart to Sheol, all the nations that forget God.

Proverbs 1:18

yet they lie in wait—to kill themselves! and set an ambush—for their own lives!

Proverbs 11:3

The integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them.

Proverbs 11:5

The righteousness of the blameless keeps their ways straight, but the wicked fall by their own wickedness.

Proverbs 11:6

The righteousness of the upright saves them, but the treacherous are taken captive by their schemes.

Proverbs 12:14

From the fruit of the mouth one is filled with good things, and manual labor has its reward.

Proverbs 14:32

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

Proverbs 18:7

The mouths of fools are their ruin, and their lips a snare to themselves.

Proverbs 24:12

if you say, “Look, we did not know this”— does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it? And will he not repay all according to their deeds?

Proverbs 26:27

Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, and a stone will come back on the one who starts it rolling.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

I found more bitter than death the woman who is a trap, whose heart is nets, whose hands are fetters; one who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is taken by her.

Jeremiah 2:19

Your wickedness will punish you, and your faithlessness will convict you. Know and see that it is evil and bitter for you to forsake the Lord your God; the fear of me is not in you, says the Lord God of hosts.

Lamentations 1:14

My transgressions were bound into a yoke; by his hand they were fastened together; they weigh on my neck, sapping my strength; the Lord handed me over to those whom I cannot withstand.

Obadiah 1:15

For the day of the Lord is near against all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you; your deeds shall return on your own head.

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.

Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be held in honor by all, and let the marriage bed be kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Judges 20:41

Then the main body of Israel turned, and the Benjaminites were dismayed, for they saw that disaster was close upon them.

Judges 9:57

and God also made all the wickedness of the people of Shechem fall back on their heads, and on them came the curse of Jotham son of Jerubbaal.