Proverbs 28:18
Good News Translation
Be honest and you will be safe. If you are dishonest, you will suddenly fall.

New Revised Standard Version
One who walks in integrity will be safe, but whoever follows crooked ways will fall into the Pit.

Contemporary English Version
Honesty will keep you safe, but everyone who is crooked will suddenly fall.

New American Bible
Whoever walks blamelessly is safe, but one whose ways are crooked falls into a pit.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that walketh uprightly, shall be saved: he that is perverse in his ways, shall fall at once.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He that walketh uprightly, shall be saved: he that is perverse in his ways, shall fall at once.

walketh

Proverbs 10:9,25 He that winketh with the eye, shall cause sorrow: and the foolish in lips shall be beaten. . . .

Proverbs 11:3-6 Riches shall not profit in the day of revenge: but justice shall deliver from death. . . .

Psalm 25:21 The innocent and the upright have adhered to me: because I have waited on thee.

Psalm 26:11 But as for me, I have walked in my innocence: redeem me, and have mercy on me.

Psalm 84:11 For God loveth mercy and truth: the Lord will give grace and glory.

Galatians 2:14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly unto the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all: If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of the Gentiles and not as the Jews do, how dost thou compel the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?

but

Proverbs 28:6 Better is the poor man walking in his simplicity, than the rich in crooked ways.

Numbers 22:32 And the angel said to him: Why beatest thou thy ass these three times? I am come to withstand thee, because thy way is perverse, and contrary to me:

Psalm 73:18-20 But indeed for deceits thou hast put it to them: when they were lifted up thou hast cast them down. . . .

Psalm 125:5 But such as turn aside into bonds, the Lord shall lead out with the workers of iniquity: peace upon Israel.

1 Thessalonians 5:3 For when they shall say: Peace and security; then shall sudden destruction come upon them, as the pains upon her that is with child, and they shall not escape.

2 Peter 2:1-3 But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there shall be among you lying teachers who shall bring in sects of perdition and deny the Lord who bought them: bringing upon themselves swift destruction. . . .

Revelation 3:3 Have in mind therefore in what manner thou hast received and heard: and observe and do penance: If then thou shalt not watch, I will come to thee as a thief: and thou shalt not know at what hour I will come to thee.

Context
The Boldness of the Righteous
17A man that doth violence to the blood of a person, if he flee even to the pit, no man will stay him. 18He that walketh uprightly, shall be saved: he that is perverse in his ways, shall fall at once.19He that tilleth his ground, shall be filled with bread: but he that followeth idleness, shall be filled with poverty.…
Cross References
Proverbs 10:9
He that winketh with the eye, shall cause sorrow: and the foolish in lips shall be beaten.

Proverbs 10:27
The expectation of the just is joy: but the hope of the wicked shall perish.

Proverbs 28:17
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