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 22:3A prudent man sees danger, and hides himself; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.
• Prov 3:7Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.
• 1 Th 5:22Abstain from every form of evil.
• Prov 29:9If a wise man goes to court with a foolish man, the fool rages or scoffs, and there is no peace.
• Gen 42:18Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this, and live, for I fear God.
• 1 Kgs 20:10–11Ben Hadad sent to him, and said, “The gods do so to me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria will be enough for handfuls for all the people who follow me.”
• Gen 33:9Esau said, “I have enough, my brother; let that which you have be yours.”
• Job 31:21–23if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,
• Prov 16:6By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil.
• Prov 16:17The highway of the upright is to depart from evil. He who keeps his way preserves his soul.
• Prov 28:14Blessed is the man who always fears; but one who hardens his heart falls into trouble.
• Ps 119:120My flesh trembles for fear of you. I am afraid of your judgments. AYIN
• 1 Kgs 20:18He said, “If they have come out for peace, take them alive; or if they have come out for war, take them alive.”
• Mark 6:17–19For Herod himself had sent out and arrested John, and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, for he had married her.
• 1 Kgs 19:2Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don’t make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time!”
• Prov 7:22He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.
• Mark 6:24–25She went out, and said to her mother, “What shall I ask?” She said, “The head of John the Baptizer.”
• John 9:40Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?”
• Job 28:28To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’”
• Eccl 10:13The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.
• Ps 34:14Depart from evil, and do good. seek peace, and pursue it.
• Neh 5:15But the former governors who were before me were supported by the people, and took bread and wine from them, plus forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants ruled over the people; but I didn’t do so, because of the fear of God.

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