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Prov. 21:29 KJV (With Strong’s)

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A wicked man hardeneth his face: but as for the upright, he πdirecteth his way.

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or, considereth,

Psa. 119:59• ⁵⁹I have thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies. (Psa. 119:59)

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hardeneth.

Prov. 28:14• ¹⁴Happy is the man that feareth always; but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into evil. (Prov. 28:14)

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Prov. 29:1• ¹He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and without remedy. (Prov. 29:1)

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Jer. 3:2‑3• ²Lift up thine eyes unto the heights and see, where hast thou not been lain with? In the ways hast thou sat for them, as an Arab in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy fornications and with thy wickedness.
³And the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; but thou hast a harlot's forehead, thou refusest to be ashamed. (Jer. 3:2‑3)

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Jer. 5:3• ³Jehovah, are not thine eyes upon fidelity? Thou hast smitten them, but they are not sore; thou hast consumed them, they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return. (Jer. 5:3)

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Jer. 8:12• ¹²Are they ashamed that they have committed abomination? Nay, they are not at all ashamed, and they know not how to blush. Therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall stumble, saith Jehovah. (Jer. 8:12)

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Jer. 44:16‑17• ¹⁶As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of Jehovah, we will not hearken unto thee,
¹⁷but we will certainly do every word that is gone forth out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the heavens, and to pour out drink-offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and we had plenty of bread, and were well, and saw no evil. (Jer. 44:16‑17)

he directeth.

or, he considereth.

Prov. 11:5• ⁵The righteousness of the perfect maketh plain his way; but the wicked falleth by his own wickedness. (Prov. 11:5)

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Psa. 119:59• ⁵⁹I have thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies. (Psa. 119:59)

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Ezek. 18:28• ²⁸Because he considereth, and turneth from all his transgressions which he hath committed, he shall certainly live, he shall not die. (Ezek. 18:28)

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Hag. 1:5,7• ⁵And now thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.
⁷Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways. (Hag. 1:5,7)

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Hag. 2:15,18‑19• ¹⁵And now, I pray you, consider from this day and onward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of Jehovah,
¹⁸Consider, I pray you, from this day and onward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, from the day that the foundation of Jehovah's temple was laid, consider it.
¹⁹Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, the vine, and the fig-tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive-tree have not brought forth: from this day will I bless you. (Hag. 2:15,18‑19)

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Luke 15:17‑18• ¹⁷And coming to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have abundance of bread, and *I* perish here by famine.
¹⁸I will rise up and go to my father, and I will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee; (Luke 15:17‑18)

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1 Thess. 3:11• ¹¹But our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way to you. (1 Thess. 3:11)

• He who has no regard for law, human or divine, will harden his face and persist in his false words and ways; but the upright by his consistent speech and actions establishes his purpose. (“Proverbs Twenty-One” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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A wicked man hardeneth his face; but as for the upright, he establishethf his way.

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Or "regulateth," as "heedeth," ch. 14.15.