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the Week of Proper 23 / Ordinary 28
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World English Bible

Proverbs 28:18

Whoever walks blamelessly is kept safe; But one with perverse ways will fall suddenly.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Wicked (People);   The Topic Concordance - Perversion;   Salvation;   Uprightness;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Greek Versions of Ot;   Proverbs, Book of;  

Devotionals:

- Today's Word from Skip Moen - Devotion for November 15;  

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
He who walks blamelessly will be saved,But he who is crooked—double dealing—will fall all at once.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He who walks blamelessly will be delivered, But he who is crooked will fall all at once.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Whoso leadeth an innocent life, shalbe saued: but he that goeth frowarde wayes, shall once haue a fall.
Darby Translation
Whoso walketh in integrity shall be saved; but he that is perverted in [his] double ways, shall fall in one [of them].
New King James Version
Whoever walks blamelessly will be saved, But he who is perverse in his ways will suddenly fall.
Literal Translation
He who walks uprightly shall be saved, but he who is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.
Easy-to-Read Version
Honest people will be safe, but dishonest people will be ruined.
King James Version (1611)
Whoso walketh vprightly, shall be saued: but he that is peruerse in his wayes, shall fall at once.
King James Version
Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Who so leadeth a godly and an innocet life, shalbe safe: but he that goeth frowarde wayes, shall once haue a fall.
THE MESSAGE
Walk straight—live well and be saved; a devious life is a doomed life.
Amplified Bible
He who walks blamelessly and uprightly will be kept safe, But he who is crooked (perverse) will suddenly fall.
American Standard Version
Whoso walketh uprightly shall be delivered; But he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.
Bible in Basic English
He whose ways are upright will be safe, but sudden will be the fall of him whose ways are twisted.
Update Bible Version
Whoever walks uprightly shall be delivered; But he that is perverse in [his] ways shall fall at once.
Webster's Bible Translation
He who walketh uprightly shall be saved: but [he that is] perverse [in his] ways shall fall at once.
New English Translation
The one who walks blamelessly will be delivered, but whoever is perverse in his ways will fall at once.
Contemporary English Version
Honesty will keep you safe, but everyone who is crooked will suddenly fall.
Complete Jewish Bible
Whoever lives blamelessly will be saved, but he whose ways are crooked will fall in one [of those ways].
Geneva Bible (1587)
He yt walketh vprightly, shalbe saued: but he that is froward in his wayes, shall once fall.
George Lamsa Translation
He who walks uprightly shall be saved; but he who is perverse in his ways shall fall into a pit.
Hebrew Names Version
Whoever walks blamelessly is kept safe; But one with perverse ways will fall suddenly.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved; but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.
New Living Translation
The blameless will be rescued from harm, but the crooked will be suddenly destroyed.
New Life Bible
He who walks without blame will be kept safe, but he who is sinful will fall all at once.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
As those who need correction put forth fair words to men, and he that first falls in with the proposal will be overthrown;
English Revised Version
Whoso walketh uprightly shall be delivered: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.
Berean Standard Bible
He who walks with integrity will be delivered, but whoever is perverse in his ways will suddenly fall.
New Revised Standard
One who walks in integrity will be safe, but whoever follows crooked ways will fall into the Pit.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
He that walketh with integrity, shall be saved, but, he that is crooked, turning two ways, shall fall in one.
Douay-Rheims Bible
He that walketh uprightly, shall be saved: he that is perverse in his ways, shall fall at once.
Lexham English Bible
He who walks in integrity will be safe, but he who takes crooked paths will fall in one.
English Standard Version
Whoever walks in integrity will be delivered, but he who is crooked in his ways will suddenly fall.
New American Standard Bible
One who walks blamelessly will receive help, But one who is crooked will fall all at once.
New Century Version
Innocent people will be kept safe, but those who are dishonest will suddenly be ruined.
Good News Translation
Be honest and you will be safe. If you are dishonest, you will suddenly fall.
Christian Standard Bible®
The one who lives with integrity will be helped, but one who distorts right and wrong will suddenly fall.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He that goith simpli, schal be saaf; he that goith bi weiward weies, schal falle doun onys.
Revised Standard Version
He who walks in integrity will be delivered, but he who is perverse in his ways will fall into a pit.
Young's Literal Translation
Whoso is walking uprightly is saved, And the perverted of ways falleth at once.

Contextual Overview

18 Whoever walks blamelessly is kept safe; But one with perverse ways will fall suddenly.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

walketh: Proverbs 10:9, Proverbs 10:25, Proverbs 11:3-6, Psalms 25:21, Psalms 26:11, Psalms 84:11, Galatians 2:14

but: Proverbs 28:6, Numbers 22:32, Psalms 73:18-20, Psalms 125:5, 1 Thessalonians 5:3, 2 Peter 2:1-3, Revelation 3:3

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 9:4 - in integrity Esther 6:13 - but shalt surely Psalms 7:10 - which Psalms 15:2 - He Proverbs 2:7 - a buckler Proverbs 29:1 - shall Isaiah 59:8 - crooked Micah 2:7 - walketh Luke 6:49 - immediately

Cross-References

Genesis 22:3
Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went to the place of which God had told him.
Genesis 28:10
Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.
Genesis 28:12
He dreamed. Behold, a stairway set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. Behold, the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
Genesis 31:13
I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land, and return to the land of your birth."
Genesis 31:45
Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
Genesis 35:14
Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink-offering on it, and poured oil on it.
Genesis 35:20
Jacob set up a pillar on her grave. The same is the Pillar of Rachel's grave to this day.
Numbers 7:1
It happened on the day that Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle, and had anointed it and sanctified it, with all its furniture, and the altar with all its vessels, and had anointed and sanctified them;
1 Samuel 7:12
Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and called the name of it Eben-ezer, saying, Hitherto has Yahweh helped us.
2 Samuel 18:18
Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself the pillar, which is in the king's dale; for he said, I have no son to keep my name in memory: and he called the pillar after his own name; and it is called Absalom's monument, to this day.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved, Or "be safe" r from those that seek his life, plot against him, shoot at him, as the wicked do at the upright in heart, but the Lord protects him; and it is even well with him in times of public calamities; the Lord has his chambers and hiding places for him; and he is safe from falling, as may be gathered from the opposite clause; for he walks surely, and is in the hands of Christ, and is kept by him from a final and total falling away: and he shall be saved also with an everlasting salvation; from sin, and all the effects of it; from the curse of the law, from wrath to come, from hell and damnation. Not that his upright walk is the cause of this; the moving cause of salvation is the grace of God; the procuring cause, our Lord Jesus Christ, the only Author of it: but this is a descriptive character of the persons that are and shall be saved; it is a clear case that such have the grace of God, and therefore shall have glory; :-;

but [he that is] perverse [in his] ways; "in his two ways", as in

Proverbs 27:6; or many ways, and all perverse and wicked:

shall fall at once; his destruction shall come suddenly upon him, when he is not aware of it, and when he cries, Peace, peace, to himself: or in one of them; in one or other of his perverse ways.

r יושע "erit salvus", Pagninus, Montanus, V. L. Mercerus, Cocceius, Gejerus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In his ways - Rather “in his double ways” (as in Proverbs 28:6). The evil of vacillation rather than that of craft, the want of the one guiding principle of right, is contrasted with the straightforwardness of the man that “walketh uprightly.”

Shall fall at once - Better, shall fall in one of them (his ways). The attempt to combine incompatibilities is sure to fail. Men cannot serve God and Mammon.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 28:18. Shall fall at once — Shall fall without resource, altogether.


 
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