Proverbs 28:18

The Message

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

Cross References

Psalm 25:21

Use all your skill to put me together; I wait to see your finished product.

Psalm 26:11

You know I’ve been aboveboard with you; now be aboveboard with me. I’m on the level with you, God; I bless you every chance I get.

Proverbs 10:25

When the storm is over, there’s nothing left of the wicked; good people, firm on their rock foundation, aren’t even fazed.

Proverbs 10:27

The Fear-of-God expands your life; a wicked life is a puny life.

Proverbs 10:9

Honesty lives confident and carefree, but Shifty is sure to be exposed.

Proverbs 28:10

Lead good people down a wrong path and you’ll come to a bad end; do good and you’ll be rewarded for it.

Proverbs 28:6

It’s better to be poor and direct than rich and crooked.

Numbers 22:21

Balaam got up in the morning, saddled his donkey, and went off with the noblemen from Moab. As he was going, though, God’s anger flared. The angel of God stood in the road to block his way. Balaam was riding his donkey, accompanied by his two servants. When the donkey saw the angel blocking the road and brandishing a sword, she veered off the road into the ditch. Balaam beat the donkey and got her back on the road.

Numbers 22:32

God’s angel said to him: “Why have you beaten your poor donkey these three times? I have come here to block your way because you’re getting way ahead of yourself. The donkey saw me and turned away from me these three times. If she hadn’t, I would have killed you by this time, but not the donkey. I would have let her off.”

Numbers 22:35

But God’s angel said to Balaam, “Go ahead and go with them. But only say what I tell you to say—absolutely no other word.” And so Balaam continued to go with Balak’s nobles.

Galatians 2:14

But when I saw that they were not maintaining a steady, straight course according to the Message, I spoke up to Peter in front of them all: “If you, a Jew, live like a non-Jew when you’re not being observed by the watchdogs from Jerusalem, what right do you have to require non-Jews to conform to Jewish customs just to make a favorable impression on your old Jerusalem buddies?”