Proverbs 15:25
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25 (A)The Lord will destroy the house of the proud,
But (B)He will establish the boundary of the widow.
Psalm 146:9
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9 (A)The Lord watches over the strangers;
He relieves the fatherless and widow;
(B)But the way of the wicked He [a]turns upside down.
Footnotes
- Psalm 146:9 Lit. makes crooked
Proverbs 14:11
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11 (A)The house of the wicked will be overthrown,
But the tent of the upright will flourish.
Proverbs 12:7
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7 (A)The wicked are overthrown and are no more,
But the house of the righteous will stand.
Psalm 68:5-6
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5 (A)A father of the fatherless, a defender of widows,
Is God in His holy habitation.
6 (B)God sets the solitary in families;
(C)He brings out those who are bound into prosperity;
But (D)the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
Proverbs 23:10
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10 Do not remove the ancient [a]landmark,
Nor enter the fields of the fatherless;
Footnotes
- Proverbs 23:10 boundary
Deuteronomy 10:17-18
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James 1:27
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27 (A)Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: (B)to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, (C)and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
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Daniel 5:20
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20 (A)But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him.
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Isaiah 2:12
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12 For the day of the Lord of hosts
Shall come upon everything proud and lofty,
Upon everything lifted up—
And it shall be brought low—
Psalm 138:6
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Job 40:11-13
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11 Disperse the rage of your wrath;
Look on everyone who is proud, and humble him.
12 Look on everyone who is (A)proud, and bring him low;
Tread down the wicked in their place.
13 Hide them in the dust together,
Bind their faces in hidden darkness.
1 Peter 5:5
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Submit to God, Resist the Devil
5 Likewise you younger people, submit yourselves to your elders. Yes, (A)all of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for
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Psalm 52:5
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5 God shall likewise destroy you forever;
He shall take you away, and pluck you out of your dwelling place,
And uproot you from the land of the living. Selah
Deuteronomy 19:14
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Property Boundaries
14 (A)“You shall not remove your neighbor’s landmark, which the men of old have set, in your inheritance which you will inherit in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess.
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Psalm 52:1
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The End of the Wicked and the Peace of the Godly
To the Chief Musician. A [a]Contemplation of David (A)when Doeg the Edomite went and (B)told Saul, and said to him, “David has gone to the house of Ahimelech.”
52 Why do you boast in evil, O mighty man?
The goodness of God endures continually.
Footnotes
- Psalm 52:1 Heb. Maschil
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