Proverbs 15:25 · KJV
“The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.”
— Proverbs 15:25
The way of life {is} above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.
The thoughts of the wicked {are} an abomination to the LORD: but {the words} of the pure {are} pleasant words. {pleasant...: Heb. words of pleasantness}
Proverbs 15 — Context
A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word {spoken} in due season, how good {is it}! {due...: Heb. his season}
24The way of life {is} above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.
25The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.
26The thoughts of the wicked {are} an abomination to the LORD: but {the words} of the pure {are} pleasant words. {pleasant...: Heb. words of pleasantness}
27He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.
Cross References
Psalms 146:9
The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
Psalms 68:5-6
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, {is} God in his holy habitation.
Proverbs 12:7
The wicked are overthrown, and {are} not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.
Deuteronomy 10:17-18
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:
Proverbs 14:11
The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.
Proverbs 23:10
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless: {landmark: or, bound}
Isaiah 2:12
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:
James 1:27
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.