Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Take away ungodliness from the king, and his seat shall be established with righteousness.
New American Standard Bible
And his
King James Version
Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.
Holman Bible
and his throne will be established in righteousness.
International Standard Version
Purge the wicked from the king's presence, and his throne will be established in righteousness.
A Conservative Version
Take away the wicked [from] before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.
American Standard Version
Take away the wicked from before the king, And his throne shall be established in righteousness.
Amplified
Take away the wicked from before the king,
And his throne will be established in righteousness.
Bible in Basic English
Take away evil-doers from before the king, and the seat of his power will be made strong in righteousness.
Darby Translation
take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.
Julia Smith Translation
Take ye away the unjust one from before the king, and his throne shall be prepared in justice.
King James 2000
Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Remove the wicked before a king, and his throne will be established in righteousness.
Modern King James verseion
Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be founded in righteousness.
NET Bible
remove the wicked from before the king, and his throne will be established in righteousness.
New Heart English Bible
Take away the wicked from the king's presence, and his throne will be established in righteousness.
The Emphasized Bible
Remove a lawless man from before the king, that his throne, may be established in righteousness.
Webster
Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.
World English Bible
Take away the wicked from the king's presence, and his throne will be established in righteousness.
Youngs Literal Translation
Take away the wicked before a king, And established in righteousness is his throne.
Themes
Government » The kings of the earth
Government » Whose throne shall be established
Interlinear
References
Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 25:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
More Proverbs Of Solomon
4 Take the dross from the silver, and there shall be a clean vessel thereof. 5 Take away ungodliness from the king, and his seat shall be established with righteousness. 6 Put not forth thyself in the presence of the king, and prease not into the place of great men.
Cross References
Proverbs 16:12
It is a great abomination when kings are wicked; for a king's seat should be holden up with righteousness.
Proverbs 20:8
A king that sitteth in judgment, and looketh well about him, driveth away all evil.
Proverbs 29:14
The seat of the king that faithfully judgeth the poor, shall continue sure for ever more.
1 Kings 2:33
And their blood return upon the head of Joab and on the head of his seed forever. And prosperity be unto David, and unto his seed, and unto his house, and unto his seat, of the LORD forever."
1 Kings 2:46
And the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada: which went out and smote him that he died. And so was the kingdom settled in the hand of Solomon.
Esther 7:10
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had made for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.
Esther 8:11-17
wherein the king granted the Jews - in what cities soever they were - to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, and for to root out, to slay and to destroy all the power of the people and land that would trouble them, with children and women, and to spoil their goods
Psalm 101:7-8
There shall no deceitful person dwell in my house; he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.
Proverbs 20:28
Mercy and faithfulness preserve the king, and with loving-kindness his seat is holden up.
Isaiah 9:7
He shall make no end to increase the kingdom and peace, and shall sit upon the seat of David and in his kingdom, to set up the same: to establish it with equity and righteousness, from thenceforth for evermore. This shall the jealousy of the LORD of hosts bring to pass.
Isaiah 16:5
And in mercy shall the throne be prepared, and he shall sit upon it in the truth, in the tabernacle of David: judging, and seeking judgment, and making haste unto righteousness.