Proverbs 28:18
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18 One who walks in integrity will be safe,
but whoever follows crooked ways will fall into the Pit.[a](A)
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- 28.18 Syr: Heb fall all at once
Proverbs 10:9
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9 Whoever walks in integrity walks securely,
but whoever follows perverse ways will be found out.(A)
Proverbs 28:6
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6 Better to be poor and walk in integrity
than to be crooked in one’s ways even though rich.(A)
Revelation 3:3
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3 Remember, then, what you received and heard; obey it and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come to you.(A)
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Proverbs 11:3-6
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3 The integrity of the upright guides them,
but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them.(A)
4 Riches do not profit in the day of wrath,
but righteousness delivers from death.(B)
5 The righteousness of the blameless keeps their ways straight,
but the wicked fall by their own wickedness.
6 The righteousness of the upright saves them,
but the treacherous are taken captive by their schemes.(C)
Psalm 84:11
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11 For the Lord God is a sun and shield;
he bestows favor and honor.
No good thing does the Lord withhold
from those who walk uprightly.(A)
2 Peter 2:1-3
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False Prophets and Their Punishment
2 But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive opinions. They will even deny the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves.(A) 2 Even so, many will follow their debaucheries, and because of these teachers[a] the way of truth will be maligned. 3 And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation, pronounced against them long ago, has not been idle, and their destruction is not asleep.(B)
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- 2.2 Gk because of them
1 Thessalonians 5:3
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3 When they say, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them, as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and there will be no escape!(A)
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Galatians 2:14
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14 But when I saw that they were not acting consistently with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, “If you, though a Jew, live like a gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the gentiles to live like Jews?”[a](A)
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- 2.14 Some interpreters hold that the quotation extends into the following paragraph
Proverbs 10:25
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25 When the tempest passes, the wicked are no more,
but the righteous are established forever.(A)
Psalm 125:5
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5 But those who turn aside to their own crooked ways,
the Lord will lead away with evildoers.
Peace be upon Israel!(A)
Psalm 73:18-20
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Psalm 26:11
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11 But as for me, I walk in my integrity;
redeem me and be gracious to me.(A)
Psalm 25:21
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21 May integrity and uprightness preserve me,
for I wait for you.(A)
Numbers 22:32
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32 The angel of the Lord said to him, “Why have you struck your donkey these three times? I have come out as an adversary because your way is perverse[a] before me.
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- 22.32 Meaning of Heb uncertain
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