Proverbs 15:25

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

The LORD tears down the house of the proud, but he maintains the boundaries of the widow.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 146:9 : 9 The LORD protects the resident foreigner; he lifts up the fatherless and the widow, but he opposes the wicked.
  • Prov 23:10 : 10 Do not move an ancient boundary stone, or take over the fields of the fatherless,
  • Prov 12:7 : 7 The wicked are overthrown and perish, but the righteous household will stand.
  • Prov 14:11 : 11 The household of the wicked will be destroyed, but the tent of the upright will flourish.
  • Ps 68:5-6 : 5 He is a father to the fatherless and an advocate for widows. God rules from his holy dwelling place. 6 God settles those who have been deserted in their own homes; he frees prisoners and grants them prosperity. But sinful rebels live in the desert.
  • Deut 10:17-18 : 17 For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awesome God who is unbiased and takes no bribe, 18 who justly treats the orphan and widow, and who loves resident foreigners, giving them food and clothing.
  • Jas 1:27 : 27 Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their adversity and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
  • 1 Pet 5:5 : 5 In the same way, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.
  • Isa 2:12 : 12 Indeed, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies has planned a day of judgment, for all the high and mighty, for all who are proud– they will be humiliated;
  • Dan 5:20 : 20 And when his mind became arrogant and his spirit filled with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne and his honor was removed from him.
  • Ps 52:5 : 5 Yet God will make you a permanent heap of ruins. He will scoop you up and remove you from your home; he will uproot you from the land of the living.(Selah)
  • Deut 19:14 : 14 Laws Concerning Witnesses You must not encroach on your neighbor’s property, which will have been defined in the inheritance you will obtain in the land the LORD your God is giving you.
  • Job 40:11-13 : 11 Scatter abroad the abundance of your anger. Look at every proud man and bring him low; 12 Look at every proud man and abase him; crush the wicked on the spot! 13 Hide them in the dust together, imprison them in the grave.
  • Ps 138:6 : 6 Though the LORD is exalted, he looks after the lowly, and humbles the proud from far away.
  • Ps 52:1 : 1 For the music director; a well-written song by David. It was written when Doeg the Edomite went and informed Saul:“David has arrived at the home of Ahimelech.” Why do you boast about your evil plans, O powerful man? God’s loyal love protects me all day long!

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 14:11
    74%

    11The household of the wicked will be destroyed, but the tent of the upright will flourish.

  • Ps 146:9
    74%

    9The LORD protects the resident foreigner; he lifts up the fatherless and the widow, but he opposes the wicked.

  • Job 22:9
    73%

    9you sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the orphans you crushed.

  • Prov 21:12
    71%

    12The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked; he overthrows the wicked to their ruin.

  • Prov 10:15
    71%

    15The wealth of a rich person is like a fortified city, but the poor are brought to ruin by their poverty.

  • Prov 10:29-30
    2 verses
    71%

    29The way of the LORD is like a stronghold for the upright, but it is destruction to evildoers.

    30The righteous will never be moved, but the wicked will not inhabit the land.

  • Amos 6:11
    71%

    11Indeed, look! The LORD is giving the command. He will smash the large house to bits, and the small house into little pieces.

  • Isa 5:15
    71%

    15Men will be humiliated, they will be brought low; the proud will be brought low.

  • Job 15:28
    71%

    28he lived in ruined towns and in houses where no one lives, where they are ready to crumble into heaps.

  • Isa 25:12
    71%

    12The fortified city(along with the very tops of your walls) he will knock down, he will bring it down, he will throw it down to the dusty ground.

  • Ps 37:17
    71%

    17for evil men will lose their power, but the LORD sustains the godly.

  • Jer 25:37
    70%

    37Their peaceful dwelling places will be laid waste by the fierce anger of the LORD.

  • Prov 16:18-19
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    70%

    18Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

    19It is better to be lowly in spirit with the afflicted than to share the spoils with the proud.

  • Jer 13:15
    70%

    15Then I said to the people of Judah,“Listen and pay attention! Do not be arrogant! For the LORD has spoken.

  • Prov 15:26
    70%

    26The LORD abhors the plans of the wicked, but pleasant words are pure.

  • Jer 50:32
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    32You will stumble and fall, you proud city; no one will help you get up. I will set fire to your towns; it will burn up everything that surrounds you.”

  • Prov 22:23
    70%

    23for the LORD will plead their case and will rob the life those who are robbing them.

  • Jer 13:9
    70%

    9“I, the LORD, say:‘This shows how I will ruin the highly exalted position in which Judah and Jerusalem take pride.

  • Job 20:19
    70%

    19For he has oppressed the poor and abandoned them; he has seized a house which he did not build.

  • Prov 14:1
    70%

    1Every wise woman has built her household, but a foolish woman tears it down with her own hands.

  • Prov 12:7
    70%

    7The wicked are overthrown and perish, but the righteous household will stand.

  • Isa 10:2
    70%

    2to keep the poor from getting fair treatment, and to deprive the oppressed among my people of justice, so they can steal what widows own, and loot what belongs to orphans.

  • Amos 3:15
    69%

    15I will destroy both the winter and summer houses. The houses filled with ivory will be ruined, the great houses will be swept away.” The LORD is speaking!

  • Ps 140:12
    69%

    12I know that the LORD defends the cause of the oppressed and vindicates the poor.

  • Ps 138:6
    69%

    6Though the LORD is exalted, he looks after the lowly, and humbles the proud from far away.

  • Ps 14:6
    69%

    6You want to humiliate the oppressed, even though the LORD is their shelter.

  • Ps 147:6
    69%

    6The LORD lifts up the oppressed, but knocks the wicked to the ground.

  • Ps 10:2
    69%

    2The wicked arrogantly chase the oppressed; the oppressed are trapped by the schemes the wicked have dreamed up.

  • Job 24:21
    69%

    21He preys on the barren and childless woman, and does not treat the widow well.

  • Jer 49:11
    69%

    11Leave your orphans behind and I will keep them alive. Your widows too can depend on me.”

  • Isa 5:9
    69%

    9The LORD of Heaven’s Armies told me this:“Many houses will certainly become desolate, large, impressive houses will have no one living in them.

  • Ps 94:6
    69%

    6They kill the widow and the resident foreigner, and they murder the fatherless.

  • Isa 23:9
    69%

    9The LORD of Heaven’s Armies planned it– to dishonor the pride that comes from all her beauty, to humiliate all the dignitaries of the earth.

  • Job 5:11
    69%

    11he sets the lowly on high, that those who mourn are raised to safety.

  • Prov 3:33
    69%

    33The LORD’s curse is on the household of the wicked, but he blesses the home of the righteous.

  • Job 27:15
    69%

    15Those who survive him are buried by the plague, and their widows do not mourn for them.

  • Ps 101:5
    69%

    5I will destroy anyone who slanders his neighbor in secret. I will not tolerate anyone who has a haughty demeanor and an arrogant attitude.

  • Isa 26:5
    68%

    5Indeed, the LORD knocks down those who live in a high place, he brings down an elevated town; he brings it down to the ground, he throws it down to the dust.

  • Amos 5:9
    68%

    9He flashes destruction down upon the strong so that destruction overwhelms the fortified places.)

  • Prov 14:31
    68%

    31The one who oppresses the poor has insulted his Creator, but whoever honors him shows favor to the needy.

  • Isa 2:12
    68%

    12Indeed, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies has planned a day of judgment, for all the high and mighty, for all who are proud– they will be humiliated;

  • Prov 29:23
    68%

    23A person’s pride will bring him low, but one who has a lowly spirit will gain honor.

  • Ps 52:5
    68%

    5Yet God will make you a permanent heap of ruins. He will scoop you up and remove you from your home; he will uproot you from the land of the living.(Selah)

  • Ps 145:20
    68%

    20The LORD protects all those who love him, but he destroys all the wicked.

  • Prov 15:24
    68%

    24The path of life is upward for the wise person, to keep him from going downward to Sheol.

  • Ps 109:9
    68%

    9May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow!

  • Jer 15:8
    68%

    8Their widows will become in my sight more numerous than the grains of sand on the seashores. At noontime I will bring a destroyer against the mothers of their young men. I will cause anguish and terror to fall suddenly upon them.

  • Isa 3:14
    68%

    14The LORD comes to pronounce judgment on the leaders of his people and their officials. He says,“It is you who have ruined the vineyard! You have stashed in your houses what you have stolen from the poor.