Proverbs 5:22

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is caught in the toils of his sin.

Cross References

1 Kings 18:18

And 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 his wicked plot which he had devised against the Jews should come upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

Job 18:8

For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks on a pitfall.

Psalm 40:12

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

Psalm 9:15

The nations have sunk in the pit which they made; in the net which 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

but these men lie in wait for their own blood, they 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 his way straight, but the wicked falls by his own wickedness.

Proverbs 11:6

The righteousness of the upright delivers them, but the treacherous are taken captive by their lust.

Proverbs 12:14

From the fruit of his words a man is satisfied with good, and the work of a man's hand comes back to him.

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked is overthrown through his evil-doing, but the righteous finds refuge through his integrity.

Proverbs 18:7

A fool's mouth is his ruin, and his lips are a snare to himself.

Proverbs 24:12

If you say, “Behold, 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 requite man according to his work?

Proverbs 26:27

He who digs a pit will fall into it, and a stone will come back upon him who starts it rolling.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

And I found more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are fetters; he who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is taken by her.

Jeremiah 2:19

Your wickedness will chasten you, and your apostasy will reprove 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 were set upon my neck; he caused my strength to fail; the Lord gave me into the hands of those whom I cannot withstand.

Obadiah 1:15

For the day of the Lord is near upon 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 will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the Lord; and be sure your sin will find you out.

Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled; for God will judge the immoral and adulterous.

Judges 20:41

Then the men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed, for they saw that disaster was close upon them.

Judges 9:57

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