Proverbs 25:26
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked.”
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“Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Asa troubled fountain, and a corrupted spring, So isa righteous man that giveth way before the wicked.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“A spring troubled, and a fountain corrupt, <FI>Is<Fi> the righteous falling before the wicked.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Proverbs 25:26 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 4:8Then Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let us go out to the field.” And while they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.
- 1 Samuel 22:14Ahimelech answered the king, “Who among all your servants is as faithful as David, the king’s son-in-law, the captain of your bodyguard who is honored in your house?
- 2 Chronicles 24:21But they conspired against Zechariah, and by order of the king, they stoned him in the courtyard of the house of the LORD.
- Ezekiel 32:2“Son of man, take up a lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: ‘You are like a lion among the nations; you are like a monster in the seas. You thrash about in your rivers, churning up the waters with your feet and muddying the streams.’
- Ezekiel 34:18Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture? Must you also trample the rest of the pasture with your feet? Is it not enough for you to drink the clear waters? Must you also muddy the rest with your feet?
- Matthew 23:34Because of this, I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and others you will flog in your synagogues and persecute in town after town.
- Matthew 26:69Meanwhile, Peter was sitting out in the courtyard, and a servant girl came up to him. “You also were with Jesus the Galilean,” she said.
- Acts 7:52Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers—
- 1 Thessalonians 2:15who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and hostile to all men,
- Revelation 17:6I could see that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and witnesses for Jesus. And I was utterly amazed at the sight of her.
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