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

Or ever thou canst turn thee about, the ungodly shall be overthrown; but the house of the righteous shall stand.

The houses of the ungodly shall be overthrown; but the tabernacles of the righteous shall flourish.

pour out thy indignation of thy wrath; see that thou cast down all the proud,

{To the Chanter, an exhortation of David when Doeg the Edomite came to Saul, and showed him, saying: David is come to the house of Abimelech} Thy boastest thou thyself, thou tyrant, that thou canst do mischief, whereas the goodness of God endureth yet daily?

For though the LORD be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly; as for the proud, he beholdeth them afar off.

For the day of the LORD of Hosts shall go over all pride and presumption, upon all them that exalt themselves, and shall bring them all down:

But because his heart was so proud, and his stomach set so fast unto wilfulness: he was deposed from his kingly throne, and his majesty was taken from him.

Likewise, ye younger submit yourselves unto the elder. Submit yourselves every man, one to another. Knit yourselves together in lowliness of mind. For God resisteth the proud and giveth grace to the humble.

But

For the LORD your God, he is God of Gods and Lord of lords; a great God, a mighty and a terrible which regardeth no man's person nor taketh gifts:

He is a father of the fatherless, he is a defender of widows; even God in his holy habitation.

The LORD careth for the strangers; he defendeth the fatherless and widow. As for the way of the ungodly, he turneth it upside down.

Pure devotion, and undefiled before God the father, is this: To visit the friendless, and widows in their adversity, and to keep himself unspotted of the world.