Proverbs 11:27
He who searches out good finds favor, but evil will come to him who seeks it.
BSB
ASV
He that diligently seeketh good seeketh favor; But he that searcheth after evil, it shall come unto him.
KJV
He that diligently seeketh good procureth favour: but he that seeketh mischief, it shall come unto him.
Procureth - Better, striveth after. He who desires good, absolutely, for its own sake, is also unconsciously striving after the favor which attends goodness.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Psalms 57:6They spread a net for my feet; my soul was despondent. They dug a pit before me, but they themselves have fallen into it! Selah
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The LORD upholds all who fall and lifts up all who are bowed down.
He has dug a hole and hollowed it out; he has fallen into a pit of his own making.
He who leads the upright along the path of evil will fall into his own pit, but the blameless will inherit what is good.
The godly man has perished from the earth; there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; they hunt one another with a net.
For without cause they laid their net for me; without reason they dug a pit for my soul.
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Esther 7:10So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the fury of the king subsided.
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His trouble recoils on himself, and his violence falls on his own head.
At the command of the king, the men who had falsely accused Daniel were brought and thrown into the den of lions—they and their children and wives. And before they had reached the bottom…
And Samson told them, “Because you have done this, I will not rest until I have taken vengeance upon you.”