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

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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.

Put forth the rage of your wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him.

[To the Chief Musician, a maschil. A Psalm of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David is come to the house of Ahimelech.] Why boast you yourself in evil, O mighty man? the goodness of God endures continually.

Though the LORD be high, yet has he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knows from afar.

For the day of the LORD of hosts shall come upon everyone that is proud and lofty, and upon everyone that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:

But 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:

Likewise, you younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resists the proud, and gives grace to the humble.

But

For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, mighty, and awesome, who regards not persons, nor takes reward:

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

The LORD preserves the strangers; he relieves the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.

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