Proverbs 28:4 - Easy To Read Version

⁴ You are for evil people if you refuse to obey the law. But if you obey the law, then you are against them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ They that forsake the law praise the wicked: But such as keep the law contend with them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ Those who forsake the law [of God and man] praise the wicked, but those who keep the law [of God and man] contend with them. [Prov. 29:18.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ They that forsake the law praise the wicked; But such as keep the law contend with them.

Common English Bible

⁴ Those who abandon Instruction praise the wicked, but those who follow Instruction battle them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ Those who abandon the law praise the impious. Those who guard it are inflamed against him.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ They that forsake the law, praise the wicked man: they that keep it, are incensed against him.

Proverbs 28:4 Tagairtí Cros

1 Kings 18:18

Elijah answered, “I have not caused Israel trouble. You and your father’s family caused all this trouble. You caused the trouble when you stopped obeying the Lord’s commands and began following the false gods.

1 Kings 18:21

Elijah came to all the people. He said, “When will you people decide who to follow? If the Lord is the true God, then you should follow him. But if Baal [200] is the true God, then you should follow him!”

Nehemiah 13:15

In those days in Judah, I saw people working on the Sabbath {\cf2\super [85]} day. I saw people pressing grapes to make wine. I saw people bringing in grain and loading it on donkeys. I saw people carrying grapes, figs, and all kinds of things in the city. They were bringing all these things into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. So I warned them about this. I told them they must not sell food on the Sabbath day.

Nehemiah 13:28

Joiada was the son of Eliashib the high priest. One of Joiada’s sons was a son-in-law of Sanballat from Horon. I forced that man to leave this place. I forced him to run away.

Psalm 10:3

Evil people brag about the things they want.\par And those greedy people curse God.\par In this way, the evil people show that\par they hate the Lord.\par

Psalm 49:18

A wealthy person might really congratulate himself\par on how well he has done in life.\par And yes, even other people might praise him for how well he had done for himself.\par

Jeremiah 5:30

\{The Lord says,\}\par “A terrible and shocking thing\par has happened in the land of Judah.\par

Matthew 14:4

Herod arrested John because John told Herod: “It is not right for you to have Herodias.”

Matthew 3:15

Jesus answered, “Let it be this way for now. We should do all things that are right.” So John agreed to baptize {\cf2\super [45]} Jesus.

Matthew 3:7

Many Pharisees {\cf2\super [37]} and Sadducees {\cf2\super [38]} came to the place where John was baptizing people. When John saw them he said to them: “You are all snakes! Who warned you to run away from God’s anger that is coming?

Acts 12:22

The people shouted, “This is the voice of a god, not a man!”

Acts 15:2

Paul and Barnabas were against this teaching. They argued with these men about it. So the group decided to send Paul, Barnabas, and some other men to Jerusalem. These men were going there to talk more about this with the apostles {\cf2\super [297]} and elders. {\cf2\super [298]}

Acts 19:9

But some of the Jews became stubborn. They refused to believe. These Jews said some very bad things about the Way \{of Jesus\}. All the people heard these things. So Paul left those Jews and took the followers \{of Jesus\} with him. Paul went to a place where a man named Tyrannus had a school. There Paul talked with people every day.

Romans 1:32

Those people know God’s law. They know God’s law says that people who live like that should die. But they continue to do those wrong things. And they say that people who do those things are doing right.

Ephesians 5:11

Don’t do the things that people in darkness do. Doing those things brings nothing good. But \{do the good things to\} show that those things in darkness are wrong.

1 Thessalonians 2:2

Before we came to you, we suffered in Philippi. People there said bad things against us. You know all about that. And when we came to you, many people were against us. But our God helped us to be brave. He helped us to tell you his Good News. {\cf2\super [4]}

1 John 4:5

And those people (the false teachers) belong to the world. So the things they say are from the world, too. And the world listens to what they say.