Proverbs 11:5

The Message

Moral character makes for smooth traveling; an evil life is a hard life.

Cross References

2 Samuel 17:23

When Ahithophel realized that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey and left for his hometown. After making out his will and putting his house in order, he hanged himself and died. He was buried in the family tomb.

Proverbs 11:3

The integrity of the honest keeps them on track; the deviousness of crooks brings them to ruin.

Proverbs 12:3

You can’t find firm footing in a swamp, but life rooted in God stands firm.

Proverbs 13:6

A God-loyal life keeps you on track; sin dumps the wicked in the ditch.

Proverbs 14:32

The evil of bad people leaves them out in the cold; the integrity of good people creates a safe place for living.

Proverbs 15:19

The path of lazy people is overgrown with briers; the diligent walk down a smooth road.

Proverbs 21:29

Unscrupulous people fake it a lot; honest people are sure of their steps.

Proverbs 28:18

Walk straight—live well and be saved; a devious life is a doomed life.

Isaiah 26:7

The path of right-living people is level. The Leveler evens the road for the right-living. We’re in no hurry, God. We’re content to linger in the path sign-posted with your decisions. Who you are and what you’ve done are all we’ll ever want. Through the night my soul longs for you. Deep from within me my spirit reaches out to you. When your decisions are on public display, everyone learns how to live right. If the wicked are shown grace, they don’t seem to get it. In the land of right living, they persist in wrong living, blind to the splendor of God.

Hosea 5:5

“Bloated by arrogance, big as a house, they’re a public disgrace, The lot of them—Israel, Ephraim, Judah— lurching and weaving down their guilty streets. When they decide to get their lives together and go off looking for God once again, They’ll find it’s too late. I, God, will be long gone. They’ve played fast and loose with me for too long, filling the country with their bastard offspring. A plague of locusts will devastate their violated land.

Judges 20:41

By the time the men of Israel had turned back on them, the men of Benjamin fell apart—they could see that they were trapped. Confronted by the Israelites, they tried to get away down the wilderness road, but by now the battle was everywhere. The men of Israel poured out of the towns, killing them right and left, hot on their trail, picking them off east of Gibeah. * * *