Proverbs 14:16

The wise fear God and avoid evil, but the fool is reckless and overconfident. Healthy caution marks the wise.

Cross-references · 22

• Prov 22:3The prudent see danger and take cover, but the simple keep going and suffer the consequences.
• Prov 3:7Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD and turn away from evil.
• 1 Th 5:22Abstain from every form of evil.
• Prov 29:9If a wise man goes to court with a fool, there will be raving and laughing with no resolution.
• Gen 42:18and on the third day he said to them, “I fear God. So do this and you will live:
• 1 Kgs 20:10–11Then Ben-hadad sent another message to Ahab: “May the gods deal with me, and ever so severely, if enough dust remains of Samaria for each of my men to have a handful.”
• Gen 33:9“I already have plenty, my brother,” Esau replied. “Keep what belongs to you.”
• Job 31:21–23if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless because I saw that I had support in the gate,
• Prov 16:6By loving devotion and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of the LORD one turns aside from evil.
• Prov 16:17The highway of the upright leads away from evil; he who guards his way protects his life.
• Prov 28:14Blessed is the man who is always reverent, but he who hardens his heart falls into trouble.
• Ps 119:120My flesh trembles in awe of You; I stand in fear of Your judgments.
• 1 Kgs 20:18“If they have marched out in peace,” he said, “take them alive. Even if they have marched out for war, take them alive.”
• Mark 6:17–19For Herod himself had ordered that John be arrested and bound and imprisoned, on account of his brother Philip’s wife Herodias, whom Herod had married.
• 1 Kgs 19:2So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “May the gods deal with me, and ever so severely, if by this time tomorrow I do not make your life like the lives of those you killed!”
• Prov 7:22He follows her on impulse, like an ox going to the slaughter, like a deer bounding into a trap,
• Mark 6:24–25Then she went out and asked her mother, “What should I request?” And her mother answered, “The head of John the Baptist.”
• John 9:40Some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard this, and they asked Him, “Are we blind too?”
• Job 28:28And He said to man, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.’”
• Eccl 10:13The beginning of his talk is folly, and the end of his speech is evil madness.
• Ps 34:14Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.
• Neh 5:15The governors before me had heavily burdened the people, taking from them bread and wine plus forty shekels of silver. Their servants also oppressed the people, but I did not do this because of my fear of God.

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