Proverbs 15:25

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Summary

Proverbs 15:25

The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.

Destroy

But

Bible References

Destroy

The wicked are overthrown, and are not; But the house of the righteous shall stand.

The house of the wicked shall be overthrown; But the tent of the upright shall flourish.

Pour forth the overflowings of thine anger; And look upon every one that is proud, and abase him.

Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? The lovingkindness of God endureth continually.

For though Jehovah is high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly; But the haughty he knoweth from afar.

For there shall be a day of Jehovah of hosts upon all that is proud and haughty, and upon all that is lifted up; and it shall be brought low;

But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:

Likewise, ye younger, be subject unto the elder. Yea, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to serve one another: for God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.

But

For Jehovah your God, he is God of gods, and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the terrible, who regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward.

A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, Is God in his holy habitation.

Jehovah preserveth the sojourners; He upholdeth the fatherless and widow; But the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.