Proverbs 11:6

The English Standar Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 30:33

So my honesty will answer for me later, when you come to look into my wages with you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats and black among the lambs, if found with me, shall be counted stolen."

Genesis 31:37

For you have felt through all my goods; what have you found of all your household goods? Set it here before my kinsmen and your kinsmen, that they may decide between us two.

1 Kings 2:44

The king also said to Shimei, "You know in your own heart all the harm that you did to David my father. So the LORD will bring back your harm on your own head.

Psalm 9:15

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

Proverbs 11:9

With his mouth the godless man would destroy his neighbor, but by knowledge the righteous are delivered.

Proverbs 5:22

The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is held fast in the cords of his sin.

Ecclesiastes 10:8

He who digs a pit will fall into it, and a serpent will bite him who breaks through a wall.

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.