Proverbs 29:18
Good News Translation
A nation without God's guidance is a nation without order. Happy are those who keep God's law!

New Revised Standard Version
Where there is no prophecy, the people cast off restraint, but happy are those who keep the law.

Contemporary English Version
Without guidance from God law and order disappear, but God blesses everyone who obeys his Law.

New American Bible
Without a vision the people lose restraint; but happy is the one who follows instruction.

Douay-Rheims Bible
When prophecy shall fail, the people shall be scattered abroad: but he that keepeth the law, is blessed.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

When prophecy shall fail, the people shall be scattered abroad: but he that keepeth the law, is blessed.

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1 Samuel 3:1 Now the child Samuel ministered to the Lord before Heli, and the word of the Lord was precious in those days, there was no manifest vision.

Hosea 4:6 My people have been silent, because they had no knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will reject thee, that thou shalt not do the office of priesthood to me: and thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.

Amos 8:11,12 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation: and I will bring up sackcloth upon every back of yours, and baldness upon every head: and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the latter end thereof as a bitter day. . . .

Matthew 9:36 And seeing the multitudes, he had compassion on them: because they were distressed, and lying like sheep that have no shepherd.

Romans 10:13-15 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. . . .

perish or is made naked

2 Chronicles 28:19 For the Lord had humbled Juda because of Achaz the king of Juda, for he had stripped it of help, and had contemned the Lord.

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Proverbs 19:16 He that keepeth the commandment, keepeth his own soul: but he that neglecteth his own way, shall die.

Psalm 19:11 For thy servant keepeth them, and in keeping them there is a great reward.

Psalm 119:2 Blessed are they that search his testimonies: that seek him with their whole heart.

Luke 11:28 But he said: Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God and keep it.

John 13:17 If you know these things, you shall be blessed if you do them.

John 14:21-23 He that hath my commandments and keepeth them; he it is that loveth me. And he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father: and I will love him and will manifest myself to him. . . .

James 1:25 But he that hath looked into the perfect law of liberty and hath continued therein, not becoming a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work: this man shall be blessed in his deed.

Revelation 22:14 Blessed are they that wash their robes in the blood of the Lamb: that they may have a right to the tree of life and may enter in by the gates into the city.

Context
The Stiff-Necked will Be Destroyed
17Instruct thy son and he shall refresh thee, and shall give delight to thy soul. 18When prophecy shall fail, the people shall be scattered abroad: but he that keepeth the law, is blessed.19A slave will not be corrected by words: because he understandeth what thou sayest, and will not answer.…
Cross References
John 13:17
If you know these things, you shall be blessed if you do them.

Exodus 32:25
And when Moses saw that the people were naked, (for Aaron had stripped them by occasion of the shame of the filth, and had set them naked among their enemies)

1 Samuel 3:1
Now the child Samuel ministered to the Lord before Heli, and the word of the Lord was precious in those days, there was no manifest vision.

Psalm 1:1
Blessed is the man who hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sat in the chair of pestilence:

Psalm 1:2
But his will is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he shall meditate day and night.

Psalm 19:11
For thy servant keepeth them, and in keeping them there is a great reward.

Psalm 74:9
Our signs we have not seen, there is now no prophet: and he will know us no more.

Psalm 106:3
Blessed are they that keep judgment, and do justice at all times.

Psalm 119:2
Blessed are they that search his testimonies: that seek him with their whole heart.

Proverbs 8:32
Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.

Proverbs 29:19
A slave will not be corrected by words: because he understandeth what thou sayest, and will not answer.

Amos 8:11
And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation: and I will bring up sackcloth upon every back of yours, and baldness upon every head: and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the latter end thereof as a bitter day.

Amos 8:12
Behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will send forth a famine into the land: not a famine of bread, nor a thirst of water, but of hearing the word of the Lord.

Proverbs 29:17
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