"The wicked desireth the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit."
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And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet.
He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.
And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:
For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.
The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.
They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.
I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
The resting-place of the sinner will come to destruction, but the root of upright men is for ever.
The wicked desireth the net of evil [men]; but the root of the righteous yieldeth [fruit].
The wicked desireth the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit.
The wicked desireth the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit.
The wicked desires the plunder of evil men, But the root of the righteous flourishes.
The wicked hath desired the net of evil doers, And the root of the righteous giveth.