Proverbs 13:5

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“The righteous hate falsehood, but the wicked bring shame and disgrace.”

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BSBPD

“The righteous hate falsehood, but the wicked bring shame and disgrace.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“A righteous man hateth lying; But a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“A false word the righteous hateth, And the wicked causeth abhorrence, and is confounded.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Proverbs 13:5 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Judges 16:11He replied, “If they tie me up with new ropes that have never been used, I will become as weak as any other man.”
  2. Psalms 119:163I hate and abhor falsehood, but Your law I love.
  3. Proverbs 3:35The wise will inherit honor, but fools are held up to shame.
  4. Proverbs 6:17haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
  5. Proverbs 18:3With a wicked man comes contempt as well, and shame is accompanied by disgrace.
  6. Proverbs 30:8Keep falsehood and deceitful words far from me. Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the bread that is my portion.
  7. Ezekiel 6:9Then in the nations to which they have been carried captive, your survivors will remember Me—how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts that turned away from Me, and by their eyes that lusted after idols. So they will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for all their abominations.
  8. Ezekiel 20:43There you will remember your ways and all the deeds with which you have defiled yourselves, and you will loathe yourselves for all the evils you have done.
  9. Ezekiel 36:31Then you will remember your evil ways and wicked deeds, and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and abominations.
  10. Daniel 12:2And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.
  11. Zechariah 11:8And in one month I dismissed three shepherds. My soul grew impatient with the flock, and their souls also detested me.
  12. Ephesians 4:25Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one another.
  13. Colossians 3:9Do not lie to one another, since you have taken off the old self with its practices,
  14. Revelation 21:8But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”

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