Proverbs 22:5 - King James 2000

⁵ Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse: he that does keep his soul shall be far from them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: He that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ Thorns and snares are in the way of the obstinate and willful; he who guards himself will be far from them.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse: He that keepeth his soul shall be far from them.

Common English Bible

⁵ Thorns and nets are in the path of the crooked; those who guard their lives keep their distance.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ Weapons and swords are on the way of the perverse. But he who guards his own soul withdraws far from them.

Proverbs 22:5 Tagairtí Cros

Job 18:8

For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks upon a snare.

Psalm 11:6

Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and a horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.

Psalm 91:1

He that dwells in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

Proverbs 13:15

Good understanding gives favor: but the way of transgressors is hard.

Proverbs 13:3

He that keeps his mouth keeps his life: but he that opens wide his lips shall have destruction.

Proverbs 15:19

The way of the slothful man is as a hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made a highway.

Proverbs 16:17

The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keeps his way preserves his soul.

Proverbs 19:16

He that keeps the commandment keeps his own soul; but he that despises his ways shall die.

Proverbs 22:4

By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honor, and life.

Proverbs 29:6

In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the righteous does sing and rejoice.

Proverbs 4:19

The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.

Joshua 23:13

Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which the LORD your God has given you.

1 John 5:18

We know that whosoever is born of God sins not; but he that is begotten of God keeps himself, and that wicked one touches him not.