Proverbs 29:26
Many seek the ruler’s favor, but a man receives justice from the LORD.
BSB
ASV
Many seek the ruler’s favor; But a man’s judgment cometh from Jehovah.
KJV
Many seek the ruler’s favour; but every man’s judgment cometh from the Lord.
Many seek the ruler’s favor - To be screened from the punishment determined by the law; but should he grant the favor sought, and pardon the criminal, this takes not away his guilt in the sight of God, from whom all just judgment proceeds.
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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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Proverbs 19:21Many plans are in a man’s heart, but the purpose of the LORD will prevail.
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A man’s heart plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps.
The LORD of Hosts has sworn: “Surely, as I have planned, so will it be; as I have purposed, so will it stand.
The plans of the heart belong to man, but the reply of the tongue is from the LORD.
The LORD frustrates the plans of the nations; He thwarts the devices of the peoples.
I declare the end from the beginning, and ancient times from what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’
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Psalms 62:12and loving devotion to You, O Lord. For You will repay each man according to his deeds.
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For the Son of Man will come in His Father’s glory with His angels, and then He will repay each one according to what he has done.
For according to a man’s deeds He repays him; according to a man’s ways He brings consequences.
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Proverbs 19:6Many seek the favor of the prince, and everyone is a friend of the gift giver.
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A man’s gift opens doors for him, and brings him before great men.