The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.
the righteous
Exodus 11:8 And all these your servants shall come down to me, and bow down themselves …
Psalm 27:1,2 The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD …
Psalm 46:2,3 Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though …
Psalm 112:7 He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting …
Isaiah 26:3,4 You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on you: …
Daniel 3:16-18 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O …
Daniel 6:10,11 Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his …
Acts 4:13 Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that …
Acts 14:3 Long time therefore stayed they speaking boldly in the Lord, which …
1 Thessalonians 2:2 But even after that we had suffered before, and were shamefully entreated, …
For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof: but by a man of understanding and knowledge the state thereof shall be prolonged.
the transgression
1 Kings 15:25,28 And Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second …
1 Kings 16:8-29 In the twenty and sixth year of Asa king of Judah began Elah the …
2 Kings 15:8-31 In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king of Judah did Zachariah …
2 Chronicles 36:1-12 Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and …
Isaiah 3:1-7 For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, does take away from Jerusalem …
Hosea 13:11 I gave you a king in my anger, and took him away in my wrath.
but
Genesis 45:5-8 Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you …
2 Chronicles 32:20-26 And for this cause Hezekiah the king, and the prophet Isaiah the …
Job 22:28-30 You shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established to you: …
Ecclesiastes 9:15 Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered …
Isaiah 58:12 And they that shall be of you shall build the old waste places: you …
Daniel 4:27 Why, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your …
by a man, etc., by men of understanding and wisdom shall they likewise be prolonged
A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.
They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.
that
1 Samuel 23:19-21 Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Does not David …
Psalm 10:3 For the wicked boasts of his heart's desire, and blesses the covetous, …
Psalm 49:18 Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise you, …
Jeremiah 5:30 A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;
Matthew 3:15 And Jesus answering said to him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus …
Acts 12:22 And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man.
Acts 24:2-4 And when he was called forth, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, …
Romans 1:32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things …
1 John 4:5 They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the …
but
1 Samuel 15:14-24 And Samuel said, What means then this bleating of the sheep in my …
1 Samuel 22:14,15 Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who is so faithful …
1 Kings 18:18,21 And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but you, and your father's …
1 Kings 20:41,42 And he hurried, and took the ashes away from his face; and the king …
1 Kings 21:19,20 And you shall speak to him, saying, Thus said the LORD, Have you …
1 Kings 22:19-28 And he said, Hear you therefore the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD …
2 Kings 3:13,14 And Elisha said to the king of Israel, What have I to do with you? …
Nehemiah 5:7 Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, …
Nehemiah 13:8-11,17-20,23-26,28 And it grieved me sore: therefore I cast forth all the household …
Matthew 3:7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, …
Matthew 14:4 For John said to him, It is not lawful for you to have her.
Acts 15:2 When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation …
Acts 19:9 But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spoke evil of …
Galatians 2:3-6 But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled …
Ephesians 5:11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but …
1 Thessalonians 2:2 But even after that we had suffered before, and were shamefully entreated, …
Jude 1:3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write to you of the common …
Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all things.
Proverbs 15:24 The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.
Proverbs 24:7 Wisdom is too high for a fool: he opens not his mouth in the gate.
Psalm 25:14 The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will show …
Psalm 92:6 A brutish man knows not; neither does a fool understand this.
Jeremiah 4:22 For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are silly …
Mark 4:10-13 And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked …
John 7:17 If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether …
1 Corinthians 2:14,15 But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: …
James 1:5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that gives to all …
1 John 2:20,27 But you have an unction from the Holy One, and you know all things…
Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.
Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.
keepeth
Proverbs 2:1 My son, if you will receive my words, and hide my commandments with you;
Proverbs 3:1 My son, forget not my law; but let your heart keep my commandments:
but
Proverbs 28:24 Whoever robs his father or his mother, and said, It is no transgression; …
Proverbs 19:26 He that wastes his father, and chases away his mother, is a son that …
Proverbs 23:19-22 Hear you, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart in the way…
Proverbs 29:3,15 Whoever loves wisdom rejoices his father: but he that keeps company …
Luke 15:13,30 And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and …
1 Peter 4:3,4 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have worked the will …
is a companion of riotous men
He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.
that by
Proverbs 13:22 A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children: and …
Job 27:16,17 Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay…
Ecclesiastes 2:26 For God gives to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, …
unjust gain or by increase
Leviticus 25:36 Take you no usury of him, or increase: but fear your God; that your …
Ezekiel 18:8,13,17 He that has not given forth on usury, neither has taken any increase, …
pity
Proverbs 19:7 All the brothers of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends …
2 Samuel 12:6 And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, …
He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.
turneth
Proverbs 21:13 Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry …
Isaiah 1:15,16 And when you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: …
Isaiah 58:7-11 Is it not to deal your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the …
Zechariah 7:11-13 But they refused to listen, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped …
2 Timothy 4:3,4 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; …
even
Proverbs 15:8 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the …
Psalm 66:18 If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:
Psalm 109:7 When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.
Luke 13:25-27 When once the master of the house is risen up, and has shut to the …
Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession.
causeth
Numbers 31:15,16 And Moses said to them, Have you saved all the women alive…
1 Samuel 26:19 Now therefore, I pray you, let my lord the king hear the words of …
Acts 13:8-10 But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood …
Romans 16:17,18 Now I beseech you, brothers, mark them which cause divisions and …
2 Corinthians 11:3,4,13-15 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through …
Galatians 1:8,9 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to …
Galatians 2:4 And that because of false brothers unawares brought in, who came …
Galatians 3:1-4 O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, that you should not obey …
2 Peter 2:18-20 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through …
Revelation 2:14 But I have a few things against you, because you have there them …
he shall
Proverbs 26:27 Whoever digs a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolls a stone, …
Psalm 7:15,16 He made a pit, and dig it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made…
Psalm 9:15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which …
Ecclesiastes 10:8 He that digs a pit shall fall into it; and whoever breaks an hedge, …
but
Proverbs 10:3 The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but …
Proverbs 15:6 In the house of the righteous is much treasure: but in the revenues …
Proverbs 21:20 There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; …
Deuteronomy 7:12-14 Why it shall come to pass, if you listen to these judgments, and …
Psalm 37:11,25,26 But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves …
Matthew 6:33 But seek you first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and …
The rich man is wise in his own conceit; but the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out.
rich
Proverbs 18:11 The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in …
Proverbs 23:4 Labor not to be rich: cease from your own wisdom.
Isaiah 10:13,14 For he said, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my …
Ezekiel 28:3-5 Behold, you are wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can …
Luke 16:13,14 No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, …
1 Corinthians 3:18,19 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise …
1 Timothy 6:17 Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high minded, …
his own conceit
Proverbs 26:16 The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can …
Isaiah 5:21 Woe to them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
Romans 11:25 For I would not, brothers, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, …
Romans 12:16 Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but …
the poor
Proverbs 18:17 He that is first in his own cause seems just; but his neighbor comes …
Proverbs 19:1 Better is the poor that walks in his integrity, than he that is perverse …
Job 32:9 Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.
Ecclesiastes 9:15-17 Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered …
When righteous men do rejoice, there is great glory: but when the wicked rise, a man is hidden.
righteous
Proverbs 28:28 When the wicked rise, men hide themselves: but when they perish, …
Proverbs 11:10 When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices: and when …
Proverbs 29:2 When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when …
1 Chronicles 15:25-28 So David, and the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands…
1 Chronicles 16:7 Then on that day David delivered first this psalm to thank the LORD …
1 Chronicles 29:20-22 And David said to all the congregation, Now bless the LORD your God. …
2 Chronicles 7:10 And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent the …
2 Chronicles 30:22-27 And Hezekiah spoke comfortably to all the Levites that taught the …
Esther 8:15-17 And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal apparel …
Job 29:11-20 When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, …
Luke 19:37,38 And when he was come near, even now at the descent of the mount of Olives…
but
1 Samuel 24:11 Moreover, my father, see, yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand: …
1 Kings 17:3 Get you hence, and turn you eastward, and hide yourself by the brook …
1 Kings 18:13 Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the LORD…
1 Kings 19:3 And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to …
Ecclesiastes 10:6,16 Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place…
Jeremiah 36:26 But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah …
Hebrews 11:37,38 They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain …
hidden or sought for
Jeremiah 5:1 Run you to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, …
He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
that
Proverbs 10:12 Hatred stirs up strifes: but love covers all sins.
Proverbs 17:9 He that covers a transgression seeks love; but he that repeats a …
Genesis 3:12,13 And the man said, The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave …
Genesis 4:9 And the LORD said to Cain, Where is Abel your brother? And he said, …
1 Samuel 15:13,24 And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said to him, Blessed be you of …
Job 31:33 If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom:
Psalm 32:3-5 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long…
Jeremiah 2:22,23 For though you wash you with nitre, and take you much soap, yet your …
Matthew 23:25-28 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you make clean …
whoso
Leviticus 26:40-42 If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, …
1 Kings 8:47-49 Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land where they were …
Job 33:27 He looks on men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that …
Psalm 51:1-5,10 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your loving kindness…
and forsaketh
Exodus 10:16,17 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I …
1 Samuel 15:30 Then he said, I have sinned: yet honor me now, I pray you, before …
Matthew 3:6-10 And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins…
Matthew 27:4,5 Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. …
Acts 26:20 But showed first to them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout …
Happy is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief.
happy
Proverbs 23:17 Let not your heart envy sinners: but be you in the fear of the LORD …
Psalm 2:11 Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
Psalm 16:8 I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, …
Psalm 112:1 Praise you the LORD. Blessed is the man that fears the LORD, that …
Isaiah 66:2 For all those things has my hand made, and all those things have …
Jeremiah 32:40 And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not …
Romans 11:20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by …
Hebrews 4:1 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering …
1 Peter 1:17 And if you call on the Father, who without respect of persons judges …
but
Proverbs 29:1 He, that being often reproved hardens his neck, shall suddenly be …
Exodus 7:22 And the magicians of Egypt did so with their enchantments: and Pharaoh's …
Exodus 14:23 And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them to the middle of …
Job 9:4 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself …
Romans 2:4 Or despise you the riches of his goodness and forbearance and long-suffering…
As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.
a roaring
Proverbs 20:2 The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoever provokes …
Hosea 5:11 Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly …
1 Peter 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring …
a ranging
Proverbs 17:12 Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.
2 Kings 2:24 And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name …
Hosea 13:8 I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will …
so
Exodus 1:14-16,22 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and …
1 Samuel 22:17-19 And the king said to the footmen that stood about him, Turn, and …
2 Kings 15:16 Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and the coasts …
2 Kings 21:16 Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled …
Esther 3:6-10 And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had …
Matthew 2:16 Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding …
The prince that wanteth understanding is also a great oppressor: but he that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days.
prince
1 Kings 12:10,14 And the young men that were grown up with him spoke to him, saying, …
Nehemiah 5:15 But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable …
Ecclesiastes 4:1 So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under …
Isaiah 3:12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over …
Amos 4:1 Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, …
he that
Exodus 18:21 Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men, such as …
Isaiah 33:15,16 He that walks righteously, and speaks uprightly; he that despises …
Jeremiah 22:15-17 Shall you reign, because you close yourself in cedar? did not your …
A man that doeth violence to the blood of any person shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him.
Genesis 9:6 Whoever sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in …
Exodus 21:14 But if a man come presumptuously on his neighbor, to slay him with …
Numbers 35:14 You shall give three cities on this side Jordan, and three cities …
1 Kings 21:19,23 And you shall speak to him, saying, Thus said the LORD, Have you …
2 Kings 9:26 Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of …
2 Chronicles 24:21-25 And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the …
Matthew 27:4,5 Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. …
Acts 28:4 And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, …
Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.
walketh
Proverbs 10:9,25 He that walks uprightly walks surely: but he that perverts his ways …
Proverbs 11:3-6 The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness …
Psalm 25:21 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on you.
Psalm 26:11 But as for me, I will walk in my integrity: redeem me, and be merciful to me.
Psalm 84:11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and …
Galatians 2:14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth …
but
Proverbs 28:6 Better is the poor that walks in his uprightness, than he that is …
Numbers 22:32 And the angel of the LORD said to him, Why have you smitten your …
Psalm 73:18-20 Surely you did set them in slippery places: you cast them down into …
Psalm 125:5 As for such as turn aside to their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead …
1 Thessalonians 5:3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction …
2 Peter 2:1-3 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there …
Revelation 3:3 Remember therefore how you have received and heard, and hold fast, …
He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.
A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.
faithful
Proverbs 20:6 Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful …
1 Samuel 22:14 Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who is so faithful …
Nehemiah 7:2 That I gave my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the ruler of the palace, …
Psalm 101:6 My eyes shall be on the faithful of the land, that they may dwell …
Psalm 112:4-9 To the upright there rises light in the darkness: he is gracious, …
Luke 12:42 And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom …
Luke 16:1,10-12 And he said also to his disciples, There was a certain rich man, …
1 Corinthians 4:2-5 Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful…
Revelation 2:10,13 Fear none of those things which you shall suffer: behold, the devil …
but
Proverbs 28:22 He that hastens to be rich has an evil eye, and considers not that …
Proverbs 13:11 Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathers …
Proverbs 20:21 An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end …
Proverbs 23:4 Labor not to be rich: cease from your own wisdom.
2 Kings 5:20-27 But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my …
1 Timothy 6:9,10 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and …
innocent or unpunished
Proverbs 17:5 Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker: and he that is glad …
To have respect of persons is not good: for for a piece of bread that man will transgress.
He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.
that hasteth or that hath an evil eye, hasteth to be rich
Proverbs 28:20 A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that makes haste …
1 Timothy 6:9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and …
an evil
Proverbs 23:6 Eat you not the bread of him that has an evil eye, neither desire …
Matthew 20:15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with my own? Is your eye …
Mark 7:22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil …
and
Genesis 13:10-13 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that …
Genesis 19:17 And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that …
Job 20:18-22 That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow …
Job 27:16,17 Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay…
He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.
Proverbs 27:5,6 Open rebuke is better than secret love…
2 Samuel 12:7 And Nathan said to David, You are the man. Thus said the LORD God …
1 Kings 1:23,32-40 And they told the king, saying, Behold Nathan the prophet. And when …
Psalm 141:5 Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove …
Matthew 20:15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with my own? Is your eye …
Mark 7:22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil …
and
Genesis 13:10-13 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that …
Genesis 19:17 And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that …
Job 20:18-22 That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow …
Job 22:16,17 Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflowed with a flood…
Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.
He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the LORD shall be made fat.
He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.
that
Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart; and lean not to your own understanding.
2 Kings 8:13 And Hazael said, But what, is your servant a dog, that he should …
Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: …
Mark 7:21-23 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, …
Mark 14:27-31 And Jesus said to them, All you shall be offended because of me this …
Romans 8:7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject …
but
Job 28:28 And to man he said, Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is wisdom; …
2 Timothy 3:15 And that from a child you have known the holy scriptures…
James 1:5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that gives to all …
James 3:13-18 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him show …
He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.
When the wicked rise, men hide themselves: but when they perish, the righteous increase.
