Proverbs 12:15 Cross References - KJ2000

¹⁵ The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkens unto counsel is wise.

⁵ A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

⁷ Be not wise in your own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.

⁹ Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.

¹² There is a way which seems right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

¹⁶ A wise man fears, and departs from evil: but the fool rages, and is confident.

² All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weighs the spirits.

²⁵ There is a way that seems right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

²⁰ Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter days.

² Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD weighs the hearts.

¹² See a man wise in his own eyes? there is more hope of a fool than of him.

¹⁶ The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men that can answer reasonably.

¹¹ The rich man is wise in his own eyes; but the poor that has understanding will find him out.

¹² There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet are not washed from their filthiness.

¹³ Better is a poor and wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no longer be admonished.

¹⁵ Then Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah, If I declare it unto you, will you not surely put me to death? and if I give you counsel, will you not hearken unto me? ¹⁶ So Zedekiah the king swore secretly unto Jeremiah, saying, As the LORD lives, that made us this soul, I will not put you to death, neither will I give you into the hand of these men that seek your life. ¹⁷ Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, Thus says the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; If you will assuredly go forth unto the king of Babylon’s princes, then your soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and you shall live, and your house: ¹⁸ But if you will not go forth to the king of Babylon’s princes, then shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and you shall not escape out of their hand. ¹⁹ And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews that have fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me. ²⁰ But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver you. Obey, I beseech you, the voice of the LORD, which I speak unto you: so it shall be well unto you, and your soul shall live. ²¹ But if you refuse to go forth, this is the word that the LORD has shown me: ²² And, behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah’s house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon’s princes, and those women shall say, Your friends have set upon you, and have prevailed against you: your feet have sunk in the mire, and they have turned away from you. ²³ So they shall bring out all your wives and your children to the Chaldeans: and you shall not escape out of their hand, but shall be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and you shall cause this city to be burned with fire. ²⁴ Then said Zedekiah unto Jeremiah, Let no man know of these words, and you shall not die. ²⁵ But if the princes hear that I have talked with you, and they come unto you, and say unto you, Declare unto us now what you have said unto the king, hide it not from us, and we will not put you to death; also what the king said unto you: ²⁶ Then you shall say unto them, I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan’s house, to die there. ²⁷ Then came all the princes unto Jeremiah, and asked him: and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they ceased speaking with him; for the conversation had not been heard. ²⁸ So Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison until the day that Jerusalem was taken: and he was there when Jerusalem was taken.

¹¹ The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank you, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector.

³ For if a man thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.