Proverbs 14:14

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Summary

Proverbs 14:14

The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.

Backslider

A good

General references

Psalm 109:17

Proverbs 1:31

Bible References

Backslider

For the turning away of the inexperienced will kill them,
and the complacency of fools will destroy them.

Your own evil will discipline you;
your own apostasies will reprimand you.
Think it over and see how evil and bitter it is
for you to abandon the Lord your God
and to have no fear of Me.
This is the declaration
of the Lord God of Hosts.

Why have these people turned away?
Why is Jerusalem always turning away?
They take hold of deceit;
they refuse to return.

This is what the Lord says:

The man who trusts in mankind,
who makes human flesh his strength
and turns his heart from the Lord is cursed.

For Israel is as obstinate as a stubborn cow.
Can the Lord now shepherd them
like a lamb in an open meadow?

and those who turn back from following the Lord,
who do not seek the Lord or inquire of Him.

Watch out, brothers, so that there won’t be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart that departs from the living God.

For if, having escaped the world’s impurity through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in these things and defeated, the last state is worse for them than the first.

A good

The heart knows its own bitterness,
and no outsider shares in its joy.

But whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never get thirsty again—ever! In fact, the water I will give him will become a well

of water springing up within him for eternal life.”

For this is our confidence: The testimony of our conscience is that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you, with God-given sincerity and purity, not by fleshly wisdom but by God’s grace.

But each person should examine his own work, and then he will have a reason for boasting in himself alone, and not in respect to someone else.

General references

He loved cursing—let it fall on him;
he took no delight in blessing—let it be far from him.

they will eat the fruit of their way
and be glutted with their own schemes.