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Proverbs 10:7

Proverbs 10:7 is verse 7 of Proverbs chapter 10, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.

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King James Version

The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.

World English Bible

The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot.

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Proverbs 10:5–9 · Berean Standard Bible

5 He who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son.

6 Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.

7 The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.

8 A wise heart will receive commandments, but foolish lips will come to ruin.

9 He who walks in integrity walks securely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

1 Kings 11:36

I will give one tribe to his son, so that My servant David will always have a lamp before Me in Jerusalem, the city where I chose to put My Name.

2 Kings 19:34

‘I will defend this city and save it for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David.’”

2 Chronicles 24:16

And Jehoiada was buried with the kings in the City of David, because he had done what was good in Israel for God and His temple.

Psalms 112:6

Surely he will never be shaken; the righteous man will be remembered forever.

Mark 14:9

And truly I tell you, wherever the gospel is preached in all the world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.”

Luke 1:48

For He has looked with favor on the humble state of His servant. From now on all generations will call me blessed.

Job 18:17

The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.

Job 27:23

It claps its hands at him and hisses him out of his place.

Psalms 9:5

You have rebuked the nations; You have destroyed the wicked; You have erased their name forever and ever.

Psalms 9:6

The enemy has come to eternal ruin, and You have uprooted their cities; the very memory of them has vanished.

Psalms 109:13

May his descendants be cut off; may their name be blotted out from the next generation.

Psalms 109:15

May their sins always remain before the LORD, that He may cut off their memory from the earth.

Ecclesiastes 8:10

Then too, I saw the burial of the wicked who used to go in and out of the holy place, and they were praised in the city where they had done so. This too is futile.

Jeremiah 17:13

O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who abandon You will be put to shame. All who turn away will be written in the dust, for they have abandoned the LORD, the fountain of living water.

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