Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.

Bible References

But

Proverbs 5:22

The iniquities done by a wicked man will trap him,
And he will be held with the cords of his sin.
1 Kings 2:32
The Lord will return his bloody deeds upon his own head, because he struck down two men more righteous and honorable than he and killed them with the sword, without my father David knowing: Abner the son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.
Psalm 7:16

His mischief will return on his own head,
And his violence will come down on the top of his head [like loose dirt].
Ecclesiastes 10:8
He who digs a pit [for others] may fall into it, and a serpent may bite him who breaks through a [stone] wall.