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Proverbs 15:25

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The Lord will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.
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  1. Psalms 146:9Rank 1 from verse 25
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    9The Lord preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

  2. Psalms 68:5–6Rank 2 from verse 25
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    5A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

    6God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.

  3. Deuteronomy 10:17–18Rank 3 from verse 25
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    17For the Lord your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:

    18He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.

  4. Proverbs 12:7Rank 4 from verse 25
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    7The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.

  5. Proverbs 14:11Rank 5 from verse 25
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    11The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.

  6. Proverbs 23:10Rank 6 from verse 25
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    10Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

  7. Daniel 5:20Rank 7 from verse 25
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    20But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:

  8. Isaiah 2:12Rank 8 from verse 25
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    12For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:

  9. James 1:27Rank 9 from verse 25
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    27Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

  10. Job 40:11–13Rank 10 from verse 25
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    11Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him.

    12Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.

    13Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in secret.

  11. Psalms 138:6Rank 11 from verse 25
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    6Though the Lord be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off.

  12. 1 Peter 5:5Rank 12 from verse 25
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    5Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.

  13. Psalms 52:5Rank 13 from verse 25
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    5God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.

  14. Deuteronomy 19:14Rank 14 from verse 25
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    14¶ Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour’s landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it.

  15. Psalms 52:1Rank 15 from verse 25
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    1WHY boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.

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Proverbs 15:25

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destroy

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Sense 1: To ruin, demolish, consume, or lay waste. Sense 2: To kill or cut off. Sense 3: To cause a thing's structure, use, activity, or present condition to cease.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

house

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Sense 1: A building or dwelling. Sense 2: The people of a household or family. Sense 3: A lineage or family line. Sense 4: As a verb, to shelter, lodge, or provide a dwelling for.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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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

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15:24The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.

15:25The Lord will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.

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15:26The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord: but the words of the pure are pleasant words.

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