Proverbs 20:22
“Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the Lord, and he shall save thee.”
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the Lord, and he shall save thee.
Divers weights are an abomination unto the Lord; and a false balance is not good.
Man’s goings are of the Lord; how can a man then understand his own way?
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Related Verses
“Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me: I will render to the man according to his work.”
“For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee.”
“For the Lord will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.”
“If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain;”
“Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and to morrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee.”