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Proverbs 24:31

Thorns had grown up everywhere,

thistles had covered the ground,

and the stone wall was broken down.

Proverbs 24:31 BSB

Proverbs 24:31 has 12 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 6 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Isaiah 5:5 (7 votes) and Ecclesiastes 10:18 (6 votes). 18 other verses point back to it. It links with 13 other books, from Genesis 3 to Hebrews 6.

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Which verses does Proverbs 24:31 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Isaiah 5:57 votes

    Now I will tell you what I am about to do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled.

  2. Ecclesiastes 10:186 votes

    Through laziness the roof caves in, and in the hands of the idle, the house leaks.

  3. Genesis 3:17–194 votes

    And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. …

  4. Proverbs 22:134 votes

    The slacker says, “There is a lion outside! I will be slain in the streets!”

  5. Jeremiah 4:34 votes

    For this is what the LORD says to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: “Break up your unplowed ground, and do not sow among the thorns.

  6. Matthew 13:224 votes

    The seed sown among the thorns is the one who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

  7. Job 31:403 votes

    then let briers grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.” Thus conclude the words of Job.

  8. Proverbs 19:233 votes

    The fear of the LORD leads to life, that one may rest content, without visitation from harm.

  9. Proverbs 20:43 votes

    The slacker does not plow in season; at harvest time he looks, but nothing is there.

  10. Proverbs 23:213 votes

    For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.

  11. Matthew 13:73 votes
  12. Hebrews 6:83 votes

Which verses point to Proverbs 24:31?

The 10 strongest of 18.