Bible verse

Proverbs 3:29

Do not devise evil against your neighbor, for he trustfully dwells beside you.

Proverbs 3:29 · BSB

Proverbs 3:29 in context

The verses around it, from Proverbs 3.

25 Do not fear sudden danger or the ruin that overtakes the wicked,

26 for the LORD will be your confidence and will keep your foot from the snare.

27 Do not withhold good from the deserving when it is within your power to act.

28 Do not tell your neighbor, “Come back tomorrow and I will provide”—when you already have the means.

29 Do not devise evil against your neighbor, for he trustfully dwells beside you.

30 Do not accuse a man without cause, when he has done you no harm.

31 Do not envy a violent man or choose any of his ways;

32 for the LORD detests the perverse, but He is a friend to the upright.

33 The curse of the LORD is on the house of the wicked, but He blesses the home of the righteous.

Read all of Proverbs 3

Proverbs 3:29 in other translations

KJV

Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth securely by thee.

ASV

Devise not evil against thy neighbor, Seeing he dwelleth securely by thee.

ERV

Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth securely by thee.

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