Proverbs 28:18
If you have integrity, you'll be kept safe, but if you live deviously, you'll fall.
Free Bible 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
17Someone guilty of murder will go on running away from it until they die. Don't try and stop them.
Cross References
Numbers 22:32The angel of the Lord asked him, “Why did you beat your donkey three times? Listen, I have come to confront you because you're being obstinate.
Psalms 25:21May integrity and honesty defend me because I place my confidence in you.
Psalms 73:18For you send them on a slippery path; you throw them down to destruction.
Psalms 125:5But as for those who turn aside to follow their own crooked ways—the Lord will lead them away together with those who do evil. May Israel be at peace!
Proverbs 10:25When the storm hits, the wicked are no more, but the good are safe and secure forever.
Proverbs 11:5The goodness of the innocent keeps them on track, but the wicked fall by their 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 →