Proverbs 29:12
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“If a ruler listens to lies, all his officials will be wicked.”
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BSBPD
“If a ruler listens to lies, all his officials will be wicked.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“If a ruler hearkeneth to falsehood, All his servants are wicked.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“A ruler who is attending to lying words, All his ministers <FI>are<Fi> wicked.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Proverbs 29:12 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 39:19When his master heard the story his wife told him, saying, “This is what your slave did to me,” he burned with anger.
- 1 Samuel 18:22Then Saul ordered his servants, “Speak to David privately and tell him, ‘Behold, the king is pleased with you, and all his servants love you. Now therefore, become his son-in-law.’”
- 1 Samuel 22:8Is that why all of you have conspired against me? Not one of you told me that my own son had made a covenant with the son of Jesse. Not one of you has shown concern for me or revealed to me that my son has stirred up my own servant to lie in wait against me, as is the case today.”
- 1 Samuel 23:19Then the Ziphites came up to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Is not David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hachilah south of Jeshimon?
- 2 Samuel 3:7Meanwhile, Saul had a concubine named Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah. So Ish-bosheth questioned Abner, “Why did you sleep with my father’s concubine?”
- 2 Samuel 4:5Now Rechab and Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, set out and arrived at the house of Ish-bosheth in the heat of the day, while the king was taking his midday nap.
- 1 Kings 21:11So the elders and nobles who lived in Naboth’s city did as Jezebel had instructed in the letters she had written to them.
- 2 Kings 10:6Then Jehu wrote them a second letter and said: “If you are on my side, and if you will obey me, then bring the heads of your master’s sons to me at Jezreel by this time tomorrow.” Now the sons of the king, seventy in all, were being brought up by the leading men of the city.
- Psalms 52:2Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.
- Psalms 101:5Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; the one with haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not endure.
- Proverbs 20:8A king who sits on a throne to judge sifts out all evil with his eyes.
- Proverbs 25:23As the north wind brings forth rain, so a backbiting tongue brings angry looks.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
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