Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
Whoever walks uprightly shall be saved; but he who is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.
New American Standard Bible
But he who is
King James Version
Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.
Holman Bible
but one who distorts right and wrong
will suddenly fall.
International Standard Version
Whoever lives blamelessly will be delivered, but whoever is perverted will fall without warning.
A Conservative Version
He who walks uprightly shall be delivered, but he who is perverse in [his] ways shall fall at once.
American Standard Version
Whoso walketh uprightly shall be delivered; But he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.
Amplified
He who walks blamelessly and uprightly will be kept safe,
But he who is crooked (perverse) will suddenly fall.
Bible in Basic English
He whose ways are upright will be safe, but sudden will be the fall of him whose ways are twisted.
Darby Translation
Whoso walketh in integrity shall be saved; but he that is perverted in his double ways, shall fall in one of them.
Julia Smith Translation
He going uprightly shall be saved; and he being violent in the ways shall fall at once.
King James 2000
Whosoever walks uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.
Lexham Expanded Bible
He who walks in integrity will be safe, but he who takes crooked paths will fall in one.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Whoso leadeth a godly and an innocent life, shall be safe; but he that goeth froward ways, shall once have a fall.
NET Bible
The one who walks blamelessly will be delivered, but whoever is perverse in his ways will fall at once.
New Heart English Bible
Whoever walks blamelessly is kept safe; but one with perverse ways will fall suddenly.
The Emphasized Bible
He that walketh with integrity, shall be saved, but, he that is crooked, turning two ways, shall fall in one.
Webster
He who walketh uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.
World English Bible
Whoever walks blamelessly is kept safe; but one with perverse ways will fall suddenly.
Youngs Literal Translation
Whoso is walking uprightly is saved, And the perverted of ways falleth at once.
Interlinear
Tamiym
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 28:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
All About Life
17 A man who is pressed down with the blood of a soul shall flee to the pit; do not let them uphold him. 18 Whoever walks uprightly shall be saved; but he who is perverse in his ways shall fall at once. 19 He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he pursuing vanities shall have poverty enough.
Phrases
Cross References
Proverbs 10:9
He who walks uprightly walks surely; but he who twists his ways shall be known.
Proverbs 28:6
Better is the poor who walks in his uprightness than he who is perverse in his ways, though he is rich.
Numbers 22:32
And the Angel of Jehovah said to him, Why have you beaten your ass these three times? Behold! I went out to be an enemy to you, because your way is perverse before Me.
Psalm 25:21
Let purity and uprightness keep me; for I wait on You.
Psalm 26:11
But I will walk in my truthfulness; redeem me and be merciful to me.
Psalm 73:18-20
Surely You set them in slippery places; You cast them down into ruin.
Psalm 84:11
For Jehovah God is a sun and shield; Jehovah will give grace and glory; no good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly.
Psalm 125:5
And those who turn aside to their crooked ways, Jehovah shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity; peace shall be on Israel.
Proverbs 10:25
As the storm passes, so the wicked is no more; but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.
Proverbs 11:3-6
The integrity of the upright shall guide them; but the crookedness of traitors shall destroy them.
Galatians 2:14
But when I saw that they did not walk uprightly with the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter before all, If you, being a Jew, live as a Gentile, and not as the Jews, why do you compel the nations to judaize?
1 Thessalonians 5:3
For when they shall say, Peace and safety! Then sudden destruction comes on them, as travail upon a woman with child. And they shall not escape.
2 Peter 2:1-3
But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who secretly will bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.
Revelation 3:3
Remember then how you have received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. Therefore if you will not watch, I will come upon you as a thief, and you will not know what hour I will come upon you.