Proverbs 21:29

The wicked put on a brazen face, but the upright order their ways thoughtfully. It matters because it contrasts hardened defiance with humble integrity.

Cross-references · 16

• 1 Th 3:11Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you;
• Hag 1:7This is what Yahweh of Armies says: “Consider your ways.
• Prov 11:5The righteousness of the blameless will direct his way, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
• Prov 28:14Blessed is the man who always fears; but one who hardens his heart falls into trouble.
• Prov 29:1He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.
• Ezek 18:28Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live. He shall not die.
• Hag 2:18–19‘Consider, please, from this day and backward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, since the day that the foundation of Yahweh’s temple was laid, consider it.
• Ps 119:5Oh that my ways were steadfast to obey your statutes!
• Jer 5:3O Yahweh, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.
• Jer 8:12Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among those who fall; in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, says Yahweh.
• Ps 119:59I considered my ways, and turned my steps to your statutes.
• Jer 44:16–17“As for the word that you have spoken to us in Yahweh’s name, we will not listen to you.
• Luke 15:17–18But when he came to himself he said, ‘How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with hunger!
• Jer 3:2–3“Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been lain with? You have sat waiting for them by the road, as an Arabian in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your prostitution and with your wickedness.
• Hag 2:15Now, please consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid on a stone in Yahweh’s temple.
• Hag 1:5Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: Consider your ways.

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