Proverbs 5:22

Tree of Life Version

The iniquities of a wicked man will ensnare him. The cords of his sin will hold him down.

Cross References

Proverbs 11:5

The righteousness of the blameless man makes his way straight, but the wicked man is brought down by his wickedness.

Proverbs 1:18

But they lie in wait for their own blood. They ambush their own lives.

Psalm 9:15

Then I will tell all your praises in the gates of the daughter of Zion, rejoicing in Your salvation.

Hebrews 13:4

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

Jeremiah 2:19

Your own wickedness will rebuke you and your backslidings will chide you. Know then and see how bad and bitter it is for you to forsake Adonai your God. Nor is fear of Me in you.” It is a declaration of the Lord Adonai-Tzva’ot.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a trap, and whose hands are chains. He who pleases God will escape her, but a sinner will be captured by her.

Proverbs 11:3

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

Numbers 32:23

“But if you don’t do this, behold, you sin against Adonai! Be assured! Your sin will find you out!

Judges 20:41

Then the men of Israel turned back, and the men of Benjamin were terrified, for they realized that disaster had struck them.

Psalm 40:12

Adonai, do not withhold Your compassions from me. Let Your mercy and Your truth always protect me.

Lamentations 1:14

My transgressions are bound into a yoke, woven together by His hand. They have come upon my neck and He has sapped my strength. The Lord delivered me over to those I cannot withstand.

Judges 9:57

Also all the wickedness of the men of Shechem God requited on their heads. Thus on them came the curse of Jotam son of Jerubbaal.

1 Kings 18:18

But he answered, “I have not troubled Israel. Rather, it is you and your father’s house—by forsaking the mitzvot of Adonai and going after the Baalim.

Esther 9:25

But when it came to the king’s attention, he issued a written edict that the wicked scheme Haman had devised against the Jews should come back on 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 feet; he wanders into its mesh.

Psalm 9:17

Adonai is known for executing judgment. The wicked one is trapped in the work of his own hands. Selah

Proverbs 11:6

The righteousness of the upright delivers them, but the treacherous are trapped by their desire.

Proverbs 12:14

By the fruit of his mouth a man will be satisfied with good. The work of a man’s hands will reward him.

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked is brought down in his calamity yet the righteous has a refuge even in death.

Proverbs 18:7

A fool’s mouth is his ruin, and his lips are a snare to his soul.

Proverbs 24:12

If you say, “Look, we didn’t know this.” Won’t He who weighs hearts perceive it? Won’t He who guards your soul know it? Won’t He repay each one according to his deeds?

Proverbs 26:27

Whoever digs a pit will fall in it, and whoever rolls a stone— it will come back upon him.

Obadiah 1:15

“For the day of Adonai is near against all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you. Your dealing will return on your own head.