Proverbs 28:18
He who walks uprightly shall be delivered, but he who is perverse in [his] ways shall fall at once.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.
In Context
17A man who is laden with the blood of any person shall flee to the pit. Let no man stay him.
Cross References
Numbers 22:32And the agent of LORD said to him, Why have thou smitten thy donkey these three times? Behold, I have come forth as an adversary, because thy way is perverse before me.
Psalms 25:21Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for thee.
Psalms 73:18Surely thou set them in slippery places. Thou cast them down to destruction.
Psalms 125:5But as for such as turn aside to their crooked ways, LORD will lead them forth with the workers of iniquity. Peace be upon Israel.
Proverbs 10:25When the whirlwind passes, the wicked man is no more, but the righteous man is an everlasting foundation.
Proverbs 11:5The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way, but the wicked man shall fall by his own wickedness.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 28:18
17 A man that doeth violence to the blood of any person shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him. This agrees with that ancient law, Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed ( Gen. ix. 6 ), and proclaims, 1. The doom of the shedder of blood. He that has committed murder, though he flees for his life, shall be continually haunted with terrors, shall himself flee to the pit, betray himself, and torment himself, like Cain, who, when he had killed his brother, became a fugitive and a vagabond, and… Read the whole commentary →