Proverbs 21:8

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Proverbs 21:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible

6 Making a fortune by a lying tongue is a vanishing mist, a deadly pursuit.

7 The violence of the wicked will sweep them away because they refuse to do what is just.

8 The way of a guilty man is crooked, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.

9 Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.

10 The soul of the wicked man craves evil; his neighbor finds no favor in his eyes.

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

Genesis 6:5

Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.

Genesis 6:6

And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.

Genesis 6:12

And God looked upon the earth and saw that it was corrupt; for all living creatures on the earth had corrupted their ways.

Job 15:14

What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?

Job 15:15

If God puts no trust in His holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in His eyes,

Job 15:16

how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?

Psalms 14:2

The LORD looks down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if any understand, if any seek God.

Psalms 14:3

All have turned away, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.

Ecclesiastes 7:29

Only this have I found: I have discovered that God made men upright, but they have sought out many schemes.”

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This is an evil in everything that is done under the sun: There is one fate for everyone. Furthermore, the hearts of men are full of evil and madness while they are alive, and afterward they join the dead.

1 Corinthians 3:3

for you are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and dissension among you, are you not worldly? Are you not walking in the way of man?

Ephesians 2:2

in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience.

Ephesians 2:3

All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.

Titus 3:3

For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.

Proverbs 15:26

The LORD detests the thoughts of the wicked, but the words of the pure are pleasant to Him.

Proverbs 30:12

There is a generation of those who are pure in their own eyes and yet unwashed of their filth.

Daniel 12:10

Many will be purified, made spotless, and refined, but the wicked will continue to act wickedly. None of the wicked will understand, but the wise will understand.

Matthew 5:8

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

Matthew 12:33

Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad; for a tree is known by its fruit.

Acts 15:9

He made no distinction between us and them, for He cleansed their hearts by faith.

Titus 1:15

To the pure, all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Indeed, both their minds and their consciences are defiled.

Titus 2:14

He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.

Titus 3:5

He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.

1 Peter 1:22

Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.

1 Peter 1:23

For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.

1 John 2:29

If you know that He is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of Him.

1 John 3:3

And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as Christ is pure.