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Contemporary English Version

Proverbs 28:18

Honesty will keep you safe, but everyone who is crooked will suddenly fall.

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

Christian Standard Bible®
The one who lives with integrity will be helped,but one who distorts right and wrongwill suddenly fall.
Hebrew Names Version
Whoever walks blamelessly is kept safe; But one with perverse ways will fall suddenly.
King James Version
Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.
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.
Amplified Bible
He who walks blamelessly and uprightly will be kept safe, But he who is crooked (perverse) will suddenly fall.
World English Bible
Whoever walks blamelessly is kept safe; But one with perverse ways will fall suddenly.
Geneva Bible (1587)
He yt walketh vprightly, shalbe saued: but he that is froward in his wayes, shall once fall.
Legacy Standard Bible
He who walks blamelessly will be saved,But he who is crooked—double dealing—will fall all at once.
Berean Standard Bible
He who walks with integrity will be delivered, but whoever is perverse in his ways 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].
Darby Translation
Whoso walketh in integrity shall be saved; but he that is perverted in [his] double ways, shall fall in one [of them].
Easy-to-Read Version
Honest people will be safe, but dishonest people will be ruined.
George Lamsa Translation
He who walks uprightly shall be saved; but he who is perverse in his ways shall fall into a pit.
Good News Translation
Be honest and you will be safe. If you are dishonest, you will suddenly fall.
Lexham English Bible
He who walks in integrity will be safe, but he who takes crooked paths will fall in one.
Literal Translation
He who walks uprightly shall be saved, but he who 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.
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.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved; but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.
King James Version (1611)
Whoso walketh vprightly, shall be saued: but he that is peruerse in his wayes, shall fall at once.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Whoso leadeth an innocent life, shalbe saued: but he that goeth frowarde wayes, shall once haue a fall.
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.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He that goith simpli, schal be saaf; he that goith bi weiward weies, schal falle doun onys.
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.
New King James Version
Whoever walks blamelessly will be saved, But he who is perverse in his ways will suddenly fall.
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.
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.
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.
THE MESSAGE
Walk straight—live well and be saved; a devious life is a doomed life.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He who walks blamelessly will be delivered, But he who is crooked will fall all at once.

Contextual Overview

18 Honesty will keep you safe, but everyone who is crooked will suddenly fall.

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
So Abraham got up early the next morning and chopped wood for the fire. He put a saddle on his donkey and left with Isaac and two servants for the place where God had told him to go.
Genesis 28:10
Jacob left the town of Beersheba and started out for Haran.
Genesis 28:12
In a dream he saw a ladder that reached from earth to heaven, and God's angels were going up and down on it.
Genesis 31:13
and I am the God you worshiped at Bethel, when you poured olive oil on a rock and made a promise to me. Leave here right away and return to the land where you were born."
Genesis 31:45
After Jacob had set up a large rock,
Genesis 35:14
Jacob set up a large rock, so that he would remember what had happened there. Then he poured wine and olive oil on the rock to show that it was dedicated to God,
Genesis 35:20
Jacob set up a tombstone over her grave, and it is still there.
Numbers 7:1
When Moses had finished setting up the sacred tent, he dedicated it to the Lord , together with its furnishings, the altar, and its equipment.
1 Samuel 7:12
The Philistines were so badly beaten that it was quite a while before they attacked Israel again. After the battle, Samuel set up a monument between Mizpah and the rocky cliffs. He named it "Help Monument" to remind Israel how much the Lord had helped them. For as long as Samuel lived, the Lord helped Israel fight the Philistines.
2 Samuel 18:18
When Absalom was alive, he had set up a stone monument for himself in King's Valley. He explained, "I don't have any sons to keep my name alive." He called it Absalom's Monument, and that is the name it still has today.

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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