Proverbs 21:29
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“A wicked man hardens his face, but the upright man makes his way sure.”
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“A wicked man hardens his face, but the upright man makes his way sure.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“A wicked man hardeneth his face: but as for the upright, he directeth his way.”
King James Version · Public Domain“A wicked man hardeneth his face; But as for the upright, he establisheth his ways.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“A wicked man hath hardened by his face, And the upright--he prepareth his way.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Proverbs 21:29 — 19 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 119:5Oh, that my ways were committed to keeping Your statutes!
- Psalms 119:59I considered my ways and turned my steps to Your testimonies.
- Proverbs 4:25Let your eyes look forward; fix your gaze straight ahead.
- Proverbs 4:26Make a level path for your feet, and all your ways will be sure.
- Proverbs 11:5The righteousness of the blameless directs their path, but the wicked fall by their own wickedness.
- Proverbs 28:14Blessed is the man who is always reverent, but he who hardens his heart falls into trouble.
- Proverbs 29:1A man who remains stiff-necked after much reproof will suddenly be shattered beyond recovery.
- Jeremiah 3:2“Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been violated? You sat beside the highways waiting for your lovers, like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.
- Jeremiah 3:3Therefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute; you refuse to be ashamed.
- Jeremiah 5:3O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.
- Jeremiah 8:12Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse, says the LORD.
- Jeremiah 44:16“As for the word you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you!
- Ezekiel 18:28Because he considered and turned from all the transgressions he had committed, he will surely live; he will not die.
- Haggai 1:5Now this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.
- Haggai 1:7This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.
- Haggai 2:15Now consider carefully from this day forward: Before one stone was placed on another in the temple of the LORD,
- Haggai 2:18Consider carefully from this day forward—from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, the day the foundation of the LORD’s temple was laid—consider carefully:
- Luke 15:17Finally he came to his senses and said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have plenty of food? But here I am, starving to death!
- 1 Thessalonians 3:11Now may our God and Father Himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way to you.
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