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Proverbs 16:5 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD; they shall certainly not be unpunished. "

Proverbs 16:5

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3 Commit your deeds to the LORD, and your plans shall succeed.

4 The LORD has made everything for its own end— yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.

5 Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD; they shall certainly not be unpunished.

6 By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of the LORD men depart from evil.

7 When a man’s ways please the LORD, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

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Note, first, that the pride of sinners puts God against them. If a person is high in status and proud in heart, with a spirit lifted up by his position, and that pride makes him rude toward God and people, he should know this: even if he admires himself and others praise him, he is disgusting to the Lord. The great God rejects him, and the holy God hates him.

Second, the strength of sinners cannot protect them from God, even if they band together with all their power. They may support one another through alliances and joined efforts, and they may unite against God. Still, they will not escape his fair judgment. Woe to the one who argues with his Maker (Proverbs 11:21; Isaiah 45:9).

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Proverbs 11:20

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"Those who are perverse in heart are an abomination to the LORD, but those whose ways are blameless are his delight."

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Deuteronomy 25:16

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"For all who do such things, all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to the LORD your God."

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Proverbs 17:15

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"He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to the LORD."

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Sirach 15:13

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"The Lord hates every abomination; and those who fear him don’t love them."

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Deuteronomy 18:12

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"For whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD. Because of these abominations, the LORD your God drives them out from before you."

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Jeremiah 6:15

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"Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush. Therefore they will fall among those who fall. When I visit them, they will be cast down,” says the LORD."

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Proverbs 16:1

"The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the LORD."

Proverbs 16:2

"All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs the motives."

Proverbs 16:3

"Commit your deeds to the LORD, and your plans shall succeed."

Proverbs 16:4

"The LORD has made everything for its own end— yes, even the wicked for the day of evil."

Proverbs 16:6

"By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of the LORD men depart from evil."

Proverbs 16:7

"When a man’s ways please the LORD, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him."

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