Verse 2

A good person obtains favor from the LORD, but a person of wicked schemes is condemned.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 8:35 : 35 For whoever finds me finds life and obtains favor from the LORD.
  • Eccl 8:8 : 8 No one has power over the wind to restrain it, and no one has power over the day of death. No one is discharged in the time of war, and wickedness will not save those who practice it.
  • Isa 32:5-7 : 5 No longer will a fool be called noble, nor the miser said to be generous. 6 For the fool speaks folly, and his heart inclines toward wickedness: to practice ungodliness and to speak error about the Lord, leaving the hungry unsatisfied and depriving the thirsty of drink. 7 The schemes of the wicked are evil; he devises wicked plans to destroy the poor with lies, even when the plea of the needy is just.
  • Acts 11:24 : 24 For he was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and faith, and a large number of people were added to the Lord.
  • Rom 5:7 : 7 For one will scarcely die for a righteous person, though perhaps for a good person one might dare even to die.
  • Ps 9:15 : 15 So that I may recount all your praises in the gates of Daughter Zion; I will rejoice in your salvation.
  • Ps 112:5 : 5 Good comes to the man who is gracious and lends freely; he conducts his affairs with justice.
  • Prov 1:31 : 31 Therefore they will eat the fruit of their own way and be filled with their own schemes.
  • Prov 6:18 : 18 a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil,