Proverbs 14:34
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.”
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“Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Righteousness exalteth a nation; But sin is a reproach to any people.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Righteousness exalteth a nation, And the goodliness of peoples <FI>is<Fi> a sin-offering.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Proverbs 14:34 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 4:6Observe them carefully, for this will show your wisdom and understanding in the sight of the peoples, who will hear of all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”
- Deuteronomy 28:1“Now if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God and are careful to follow all His commandments I am giving you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
- Deuteronomy 29:18Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is no root among you that bears such poisonous and bitter fruit,
- Judges 2:6After Joshua had dismissed the people, the Israelites went out to take possession of the land, each to his own inheritance.
- 2 Chronicles 28:19For the LORD humbled Judah because Ahaz king of Israel had thrown off restraint in Judah and had been most unfaithful to the LORD.
- Psalms 107:34and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.
- Proverbs 29:4By justice a king brings stability to the land, but a man who exacts tribute demolishes it.
- Jeremiah 2:2“Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.
- Ezekiel 16:1Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
- Ezekiel 22:1Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
- Hosea 13:1When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he was exalted in Israel. But he incurred guilt through Baal, and he died.
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