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Proverbs 2:22
Proverbs 2:22 is verse 22 of Proverbs chapter 2, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted.
King James Version
But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
World English Bible
But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.
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Proverbs 2:20–22 · Berean Standard Bible
20 So you will follow in the ways of the good, and keep to the paths of the righteous.
21 For the upright will inhabit the land, and the blameless will remain in it;
22 but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Proverbs 5:22The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.
Proverbs 5:23He dies for lack of discipline, led astray by his own great folly.
Job 18:16The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.
Job 18:17The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.
Job 18:18He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.
Job 21:30Indeed, the evil man is spared from the day of calamity, delivered from the day of wrath.
Psalms 37:20But the wicked and enemies of the LORD will perish like the glory of the fields. They will vanish; like smoke they will fade away.
Psalms 37:22Surely those He blesses will inherit the land, but the cursed will be destroyed.
Psalms 37:28For the LORD loves justice and will not forsake His saints. They are preserved forever, but the offspring of the wicked will be cut off.
Psalms 37:37Consider the blameless and observe the upright, for posterity awaits the man of peace.
Psalms 37:38But the transgressors will all be destroyed; the future of the wicked will be cut off.
Psalms 52:5Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah
Psalms 104:35May sinners vanish from the earth and the wicked be no more. Bless the LORD, O my soul. Hallelujah!
Psalms 145:20The LORD preserves all who love Him, but all the wicked He will destroy.
Isaiah 3:10Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their labor.
Isaiah 3:11Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them! For they will be repaid with what their hands have done.
Deuteronomy 7:22The LORD your God will drive out these nations before you little by little. You will not be enabled to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals would multiply around you.
Deuteronomy 28:64Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.