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 tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.

Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him.

{To the chief Musician, 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 boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.

Though the LORD be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off.

For 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:

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, 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.

But

For 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:

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

The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

Pure 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.