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Proverbs 16:5

“Everyone who is proud in heart is detestable to the LORD; be assured that he will not go unpunished.”

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³Commit your works to the LORD and your plans will be achieved.

⁴The LORD has made everything for His purpose— even the wicked for the day of disaster.

⁵Everyone who is proud in heart is detestable to the LORD; be assured that he will not go unpunished.

⁶By loving devotion and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of the LORD one turns aside from evil.

⁷When a man’s ways please the LORD, He makes even the man’s enemies live at peace with him.

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