Proverbs 5:22
The iniquities done by a wicked man will trap him,
And he will be held with the cords of his sin.
Psalm 7:15-16
He has dug a pit and hollowed it out,
And has fallen into the [very] pit which he made [as a trap].
Psalm 9:15
The nations have sunk down in the pit which they have made;
In the net which they hid, their own foot has been caught.
Numbers 32:23
But if you do not do this, behold, you will have sinned against the Lord; and be sure that your sin will find you out.
Proverbs 1:18
But [when these people set a trap for others] they lie in wait for their own blood;
They set an ambush for their own lives [and rush to their destruction].
Proverbs 1:31-32
“Therefore they shall eat of the fruit of their own [wicked] way
And be satiated with [the penalty of] their own devices.
Proverbs 11:3
The integrity and moral courage of the upright will guide them,
But the crookedness of the treacherous will destroy them.
Proverbs 11:5
The righteousness of the blameless will smooth their way and keep it straight,
But the wicked will fall by his own wickedness.
Ecclesiastes 7:26
And I discovered that [of all irrational sins none has been so destructive in beguiling one away from God as immoral women for] more bitter than death is the woman whose heart is [composed of] snares and nets, and whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God will escape from her, but the sinner will be taken captive by her [evil].
Jeremiah 2:19
“Your own wickedness will discipline you,
And your desertion of the faith will punish you.
Know therefore that it is an evil and bitter thing
For you to abandon (reject) the Lord your God,
And for you to be indifferent to Me and dismiss the [reverent] fear of Me,” says the Lord God of hosts.
Hosea 4:11-14
Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away the mind and the [spiritual] understanding.
1 Corinthians 5:9-10
I wrote you in my [previous] letter not to associate with [sexually] immoral people—
Galatians 5:19-21
Now the practices of the
Galatians 6:7-8
Do not be deceived, God is not mocked [He will not allow Himself to be ridiculed, nor treated with contempt nor allow His precepts to be scornfully set aside]; for whatever a man sows, this and this only is what he will reap.
Ephesians 5:5-6
For be sure of this: no immoral, impure, or greedy person—for that one is [in effect] an idolater—has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God [for such a person places a higher value on something other than God].
Hebrews 13:4
Marriage is to be held in honor among all [that is, regarded as something of great value], and the marriage bed undefiled [by immorality or by any sexual sin]; for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.
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But [when these people set a trap for others] they lie in wait for their own blood;
They set an ambush for their own lives [and rush to their destruction].
The integrity and moral courage of the upright will guide them,
But the crookedness of the treacherous will destroy them.
He has dug a pit and hollowed it out,
And has fallen into the [very] pit which he made [as a trap].
The nations have sunk down in the pit which they have made;
In the net which they hid, their own foot has been caught.
“Your own wickedness will discipline you,
And your desertion of the faith will punish you.
Know therefore that it is an evil and bitter thing
For you to abandon (reject) the Lord your God,
And for you to be indifferent to Me and dismiss the [reverent] fear of Me,” says the Lord God of hosts.
Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away the mind and the [spiritual] understanding.
Holden
Sins
General references
The nations have sunk down in the pit which they have made;
In the net which they hid, their own foot has been caught.
But [when these people set a trap for others] they lie in wait for their own blood;
They set an ambush for their own lives [and rush to their destruction].