Verse 3

No man will make himself safe through evil-doing; but the root of upright men will never be moved.

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 10:25 : 25 When the storm-wind is past, the sinner is seen no longer, but the upright man is safe for ever.
  • Prov 12:12 : 12 The resting-place of the sinner will come to destruction, but the root of upright men is for ever.
  • Eph 3:17 : 17 So that Christ may have his place in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and based in love,
  • Col 2:7 : 7 Rooted and based together in him, strong in the faith which the teaching gave you, giving praise to God at all times.
  • 1 Sam 25:33 : 33 A blessing on your good sense and on you, who have kept me today from the crime of blood and from taking into my hands the punishment for my wrongs.
  • Job 5:3-5 : 3 I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly the curse came on his house. 4 Now his children have no safe place, and they are crushed before the judges, for no one takes up their cause. 5 Their produce is taken by him who has no food, and their grain goes to the poor, and he who is in need of water gets it from their spring.
  • Job 15:29 : 29 He does not get wealth for himself, and is unable to keep what he has got; the heads of his grain are not bent down to the earth.
  • Job 20:5-9 : 5 That the pride of the sinner is short, and the joy of the evil-doer but for a minute? 6 Though he is lifted up to the heavens, and his head goes up to the clouds; 7 Like the waste from his body he comes to an end for ever: those who have seen him say, Where is he? 8 He is gone like a dream, and is not seen again; he goes in flight like a vision of the night. 9 The eye which saw him sees him no longer; and his place has no more knowledge of him.
  • Job 27:16-18 : 16 Though he may get silver together like dust, and make ready great stores of clothing; 17 He may get them ready, but the upright will put them on, and he who is free from sin will take the silver for a heritage. 18 His house has no more strength than a spider's thread, or a watchman's tent.
  • Ps 15:5 : 5 He who does not put out his money at interest, or for payment give false decisions against men who have done no wrong. He who does these things will never be moved.
  • Ps 125:1-2 : 1 <A Song of the going up.> Those whose hope is in the Lord are like the mountain of Zion, which may not be moved, but keeps its place for ever. 2 As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about his people, from this time and for ever.