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Proverbs 10:9–17

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He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.
He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.
The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.
Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.
The rich man’s wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.
He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.
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From verse 9

  1. Proverbs 28:18Rank 1 from verse 9
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    18Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.

  2. Matthew 10:26Rank 2 from verse 9
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    26Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.

  3. Psalms 26:11–12Rank 3 from verse 9
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    11But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me.

    12My foot standeth in an even place: in the congregations will I bless the Lord.

  4. Isaiah 33:15–16Rank 4 from verse 9
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    15He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;

    16He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.

  5. 1 Corinthians 4:5Rank 5 from verse 9
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    5Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.

From verse 10

  1. Psalms 35:19Rank 1 from verse 10
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    19Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

  2. Proverbs 6:13Rank 2 from verse 10
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    13He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;

  3. 3 John 1:10Rank 3 from verse 10
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    10Wherefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he doeth, prating against us with malicious words: and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth them out of the church.

  4. Proverbs 10:8Rank 4 from verse 10
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    8The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.

  5. Job 15:12Rank 5 from verse 10
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    12Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,

From verse 11

  1. Proverbs 13:14Rank 1 from verse 11
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    14The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.

  2. Ephesians 4:29Rank 2 from verse 11
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    29Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

  3. Proverbs 10:20–21Rank 3 from verse 11
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    20The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth.

    21The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.

  4. Proverbs 10:6Rank 4 from verse 11
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    6Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

  5. Proverbs 18:4Rank 5 from verse 11
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    4The words of a man’s mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook.

From verse 12

  1. 1 Peter 4:8Rank 1 from verse 12
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    8And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

  2. 1 Corinthians 13:4–7Rank 2 from verse 12
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    4Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

    5Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

    6Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

    7Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

  3. Proverbs 17:9Rank 3 from verse 12
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    9He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.

  4. Proverbs 15:18Rank 4 from verse 12
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    18A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.

  5. James 5:20Rank 5 from verse 12
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    20Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.

From verse 13

  1. Proverbs 26:3Rank 1 from verse 13
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    3A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool’s back.

  2. Proverbs 6:32Rank 2 from verse 13
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    32But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.

  3. Isaiah 50:4Rank 3 from verse 13
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    4The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.

  4. Proverbs 10:10–11Rank 4 from verse 13
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    10He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.

    11The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

  5. Proverbs 10:21Rank 5 from verse 13
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    21The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.

From verse 14

  1. Proverbs 10:8Rank 1 from verse 14
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    8The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.

  2. Proverbs 18:7Rank 2 from verse 14
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    7A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.

  3. Proverbs 13:3Rank 3 from verse 14
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    3He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.

  4. Proverbs 10:10Rank 4 from verse 14
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    10He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.

  5. Proverbs 9:9Rank 5 from verse 14
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    9Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.

From verse 15

  1. Proverbs 18:11Rank 1 from verse 15
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    11The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit.

  2. Proverbs 19:7Rank 2 from verse 15
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    7All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursueth them with words, yet they are wanting to him.

  3. Psalms 52:7Rank 3 from verse 15
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    7Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.

  4. Proverbs 14:20Rank 4 from verse 15
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    20The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich hath many friends.

  5. Ecclesiastes 7:12Rank 5 from verse 15
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    12For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.

From verse 16

  1. Isaiah 3:10–11Rank 1 from verse 16
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    10Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.

    11Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

  2. Romans 6:23Rank 2 from verse 16
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    23For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

  3. Hebrews 6:10Rank 3 from verse 16
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    10For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.

  4. John 6:27Rank 4 from verse 16
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    27Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.

  5. 1 Corinthians 15:58Rank 5 from verse 16
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    58Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

From verse 17

  1. 2 Peter 1:5–11Rank 1 from verse 17
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    5And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

    6And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;

    7And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

    8For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

    9But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

    10Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:

    11For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

  2. Proverbs 15:10Rank 2 from verse 17
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    10Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die.

  3. Luke 11:28Rank 3 from verse 17
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    28But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.

  4. Proverbs 5:12Rank 4 from verse 17
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    12And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

  5. Proverbs 6:23Rank 5 from verse 17
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    23For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

WORDS IN THIS PASSAGE

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DEFINED WORDS

Proverbs 10:9

COMBINED MEANING

but

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Sense 1: However; marking contrast or qualification. Sense 2: Except or unless; excluding all others or alternatives. Sense 3: Only; no more than what follows.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

shall

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An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

DEFINED WORDS

Proverbs 10:10

COMBINED MEANING

eye

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Sense 1: The bodily organ of sight; by extension, sight or seeing. Sense 2: Regard, judgment, disposition, or watchful attention, expressed figuratively by the eye. Sense 3: A small opening, as the eye of a needle. Sense 4: To watch or regard.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

sorrow

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Sense 1: Grief, sadness, anguish, pain, regret, distress, trouble, or heaviness. Sense 2: To grieve or cause such pain.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

but

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Sense 1: However; marking contrast or qualification. Sense 2: Except or unless; excluding all others or alternatives. Sense 3: Only; no more than what follows.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

fool

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Sense 1: A person lacking wisdom or moral understanding. Sense 2: As a verb, to act foolishly or deceive.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

shall

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An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

fall

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Sense 1: To descend, drop, or lose an upright position. Sense 2: To be slain, defeated, overthrown, ruined, or brought down. Sense 3: To come upon or attack. Sense 4: To pass into a specified place, condition, power, or course, or to depart from a former standing. Sense 5: To happen, turn out, or be allotted. Sense 6: As a noun, descent, overthrow, ruin, or loss of standing.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

DEFINED WORDS

Proverbs 10:11

COMBINED MEANING

mouth

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Sense 1: The bodily opening used for eating, breathing, and speaking. Sense 2: The opening or entrance of a thing. Sense 3: Speech, utterance, or the agency of speaking.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

righteous

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Sense 1: Right, just, equitable, or in accord with truth, justice, or the will of God. Sense 2: Upright or innocent in a matter. Sense 3: Made or regarded as right. Sense 4: As a noun, persons so described.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

man

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1. A human being or person. 2. Mankind collectively. 3. A male person.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

but

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Sense 1: However; marking contrast or qualification. Sense 2: Except or unless; excluding all others or alternatives. Sense 3: Only; no more than what follows.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

covereth

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Places, spreads, or keeps something over another; hides, conceals, encloses, shelters, clothes, or occupies its surface or extent.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Proverbs 10:12

COMBINED MEANING

but

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Sense 1: However; marking contrast or qualification. Sense 2: Except or unless; excluding all others or alternatives. Sense 3: Only; no more than what follows.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

love

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Sense 1: Affection, attachment, delight, goodwill, commitment, or devotion. Sense 2: To regard with affection or devotion. Sense 3: A beloved person.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

covereth

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Places, spreads, or keeps something over another; hides, conceals, encloses, shelters, clothes, or occupies its surface or extent.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

sins

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Transgressions or offences against God and his law, and the guilt for them.

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DEFINED WORDS

Proverbs 10:13

COMBINED MEANING

in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

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COMBINED MEANING

lips

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Sense 1: The physical borders of the mouth. Sense 2: By extension, speech or utterance.

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understanding

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1. The capacity or act of perceiving, comprehending, discerning, judging, interpreting, or applying knowledge. 2. Knowledge, insight, wisdom, or prudent judgment possessed or gained. 3. Skill or ability in a work, art, subject, vision, saying, or interpretation.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

wisdom

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Knowledge, understanding, judgment, skill, or prudence.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

but

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Sense 1: However; marking contrast or qualification. Sense 2: Except or unless; excluding all others or alternatives. Sense 3: Only; no more than what follows.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

back

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Sense 1: The rear part; a position or direction behind. Sense 2: A return to a former place or condition.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

void

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Empty, unfilled, unoccupied, lacking something, invalid, cancelled, or without effect.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Proverbs 10:14

COMBINED MEANING

wise

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Sense 1: Possessing or exercising understanding, knowledge, prudence, judgment, discernment, or skill; also a wise person. Sense 2: In phrases such as in no wise, way, manner, respect, or degree.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

lay

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Sense 1: To put, place, set, arrange, deposit, apply, establish, impose, or cause to be in a stated position or condition. Sense 2: As the past tense of lie, to recline, rest, be situated, or remain in a state. Sense 3: In lay with, to have sexual relations. Sense 4: To press or bear upon. Sense 5: In lay up, lay by, or lay in store, to keep, store, or treasure; in lay wait, lay snares, lay an ambush, or lay siege, to prepare or set. Sense 6: In lay hold or lay hands on, to seize, take, apprehend, or touch. Sense 7: In lay down one's life, to surrender or give it; in lay aside, lay apart, or lay away, to remove, reject, or put off.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

but

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Sense 1: However; marking contrast or qualification. Sense 2: Except or unless; excluding all others or alternatives. Sense 3: Only; no more than what follows.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

mouth

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Sense 1: The bodily opening used for eating, breathing, and speaking. Sense 2: The opening or entrance of a thing. Sense 3: Speech, utterance, or the agency of speaking.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

destruction

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The act, result, or state of destroying: ruin, overthrow, death, wasting, or that which brings ruin.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

DEFINED WORDS

Proverbs 10:15

COMBINED MEANING

rich

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Possessing abundance, wealth, resources, value, fruitfulness, or fullness.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

man

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1. A human being or person. 2. Mankind collectively. 3. A male person.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

wealth

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1. Riches, possessions, or material resources. 2. Prosperity, welfare, or well-being.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

strong

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Having great power, might, firmness, courage, capacity, influence, defence, health, intensity, or ability to act, endure, resist, overcome, or support.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

destruction

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The act, result, or state of destroying: ruin, overthrow, death, wasting, or that which brings ruin.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

poverty

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The condition of being poor, destitute, or lacking necessary provision.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

DEFINED WORDS

Proverbs 10:16

COMBINED MEANING

labour

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1. Work, toil, effort, exertion, service, or the product of work. 2. Weariness or trouble. 3. Travail in childbirth. 4. To work, strive, serve, or exert oneself.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

righteous

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Sense 1: Right, just, equitable, or in accord with truth, justice, or the will of God. Sense 2: Upright or innocent in a matter. Sense 3: Made or regarded as right. Sense 4: As a noun, persons so described.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

fruit

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Sense 1: The produce borne by plants or the land. Sense 2: Offspring or increase. Sense 3: A result, product, consequence, character, or work proceeding from something.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

sin

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1. Wrongdoing against God and his law; transgression or unrighteousness. 2. The guilt or burden of such wrongdoing, or the inward principle so named. 3. As a verb, to commit such wrongdoing.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Proverbs 10:17

COMBINED MEANING

in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

instruction

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Teaching or information that directs understanding and conduct; correction, discipline, or an instructive warning.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

but

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Sense 1: However; marking contrast or qualification. Sense 2: Except or unless; excluding all others or alternatives. Sense 3: Only; no more than what follows.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

erreth

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Goes astray from what is right, whether by refusing correction or by error.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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9He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.

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10He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.

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11The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

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12Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.

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13In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.

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14Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.

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15The rich man’s wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.

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16The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.

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17He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.

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18He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.

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