Proverbs 15:25
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“The LORD tears down the house of the proud, but He protects the boundaries of the widow.”
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“The LORD tears down the house of the proud, but He protects the boundaries of the widow.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“The Lord will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Jehovah will root up the house of the proud; But he will establish the border of the widow.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“The house of the proud Jehovah pulleth down, And He setteth up the border of the widow.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Proverbs 15:25 — 19 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 10:17For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awesome God, showing no partiality and accepting no bribe.
- Deuteronomy 19:14You must not move your neighbor’s boundary marker, which was set up by your ancestors to mark the inheritance you shall receive in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.
- Job 24:21They prey on the barren and childless, and show no kindness to the widow.
- Job 40:11Unleash the fury of your wrath; look on every proud man and bring him low.
- Psalms 10:14But You have regarded trouble and grief; You see to repay it by Your hand. The victim entrusts himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.
- Psalms 52:1Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The loving devotion of God endures all day long.
- Psalms 52:5Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah
- Psalms 68:5A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in His holy habitation.
- Psalms 138:6Though the LORD is on high, He attends to the lowly; but the proud He knows from afar.
- Psalms 146:9The LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.
- Proverbs 12:7The wicked are overthrown and perish, but the house of the righteous will stand.
- Proverbs 14:11The house of the wicked will be destroyed, but the tent of the upright will flourish.
- Proverbs 23:10Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
- Isaiah 1:17Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”
- Isaiah 2:12For the Day of the LORD of Hosts will come against all the proud and lofty, against all that is exalted— it will be humbled—
- Jeremiah 5:28They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the rights of the needy.
- Daniel 5:20But when his heart became arrogant and his spirit was hardened with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne, and his glory was taken from him.
- James 1:27Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
- 1 Peter 5:5Young men, in the same way, submit yourselves to your elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
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