Proverbs 14:2
Good News Translation
Be honest and you show that you have reverence for the LORD; be dishonest and you show that you do not.

New Revised Standard Version
Those who walk uprightly fear the LORD, but one who is devious in conduct despises him.

Contemporary English Version
By living right, you show that you respect the LORD; by being deceitful, you show that you despise him.

New American Bible
Those who walk uprightly fear the LORD, but those who are devious in their ways spurn him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that walketh in the right way, and feareth God, is despised by him that goeth by an infamous way.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He that walketh in the right way, and feareth God, is despised by him that goeth by an infamous way.

that walketh

Proverbs 16:17 The path of the just departeth from evils: he that keepeth his soul keepeth his way.

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

1 Kings 3:6 And Solomon said: Thou hast shewed great mercy to thy servant David, my father, even as he walked before thee in truth, and justice, and an upright heart with thee: and thou hast kept thy great mercy for him, and hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.

Job 1:1 There was a man in the land of Hus, whose name was Job, and that man was simple and upright, and fearing God, and avoiding evil.

Job 28:28 And he said to man: Behold the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom: and to depart from evil, is understanding.

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

Psalm 112:1 Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord: he shall delight exceedingly in his commandments.

Ecclesiastes 12:13 Let us all hear together the conclusion of the discourse. Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is all man:

Malachi 2:5,6 My covenant was with him of life and peace: and I gave him fear: and he feared me, and he was afraid before my name. . . .

Acts 9:31 Now, the church had peace throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria: and was edified, walking in the fear of the Lord: and was filled with the consolation of the Holy Ghost.

Acts 10:22,35 Who said: Cornelius, a centurion, a just man and one that feareth God, and having good testimony from all the nation of the Jews, received an answer of an holy angel, to send for thee into his house And to hear words of thee. . . .

but

Proverbs 11:12 He that walketh deceitfully, revealeth secrets: but he that is faithful, concealeth the thing committed to him by his friend.

Job 12:4 He that is mocked by his friends as I, shall call upon God and he will hear him: for the simplicity of the just man is laughed to scorn.

Psalm 123:3,4 Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us: for we are greatly filled with contempt. . . .

Luke 10:16 He that heareth you heareth me: and he that despiseth you despiseth me: and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.

Luke 16:14 Now the Pharisees, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.

Romans 2:4,5 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and patience and longsuffering? Knowest thou not that the benignity of God leadeth thee to penance? . . .

2 Timothy 3:2,3 Men shall be lovers of themselves, covetous, haughty, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, wicked, . . .

Context
The Wise Woman
1A wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish will pull down with her hands that also which is built. 2He that walketh in the right way, and feareth God, is despised by him that goeth by an infamous way.3In the mouth of a fool is the rod of pride: but the lips of the wise preserve them.…
Cross References
Proverbs 2:15
That thou mayst be delivered from the strange woman, and from the stranger, who softeneth her words;

Proverbs 19:1
Better is the poor man, that walketh in his simplicity, than a rich man that is perverse in his lips and unwise.

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

Proverbs 14:1
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