Proverbs 28:18
He that walketh with integrity, shall be saved, but, he that is crooked, turning two ways, shall fall in one.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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 oppressed with a person’s blood, unto a pit, shall flee, let them not hold him back.
Cross References
Numbers 22:32And the messenger of Yahweh said unto him, Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass, these three times? Lo! I, myself, am come forth to withstand thee, because headlong was thy way before me.
Psalms 25:21Let, blamelessness and uprightness, watch over me, because I have waited for thee.
Psalms 73:18Surely, in slippery places, dost thou set them,—Thou hast suffered them to fall into places of danger.
Psalms 125:5As for them who turn aside unto their crooked ways, Yahweh, will lead them forth, with the workers of iniquity, Prosperity on Israel!
Proverbs 10:25Like the passing away of a tempest, so the lawless one is not, but, the righteous, [hath] an age-abiding foundation.
Proverbs 11:5The righteousness of the blameless, shall smooth his way, but, by his own lawlessness, shall the lawless one, fall.
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 →