Verse 3

No one can be established by wickedness, but the righteous cannot be uprooted.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 10:25 : 25 When the whirlwind passes, the wicked are no more, but the righteous have an everlasting foundation.
  • Prov 12:12 : 12 The wicked desire the plunder of evildoers, but the root of the righteous flourishes.
  • Eph 3:17 : 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and established in love,
  • Col 2:7 : 7 Be rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
  • 1 Sam 25:33 : 33 Blessed be your discernment, and blessed be you, who have kept me this day from bloodshed and from avenging myself with my own hand.
  • Job 5:3-5 : 3 I have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his home. 4 His children are far from safety; they are crushed at the gate with no one to deliver them. 5 The hungry devour his harvest, even taking it from among thorns; the thirsty swallow his wealth.
  • Job 15:29 : 29 He will no longer be rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread out across the land.
  • Job 20:5-9 : 5 that the triumph of the wicked is short-lived, and the joy of the godless lasts only a moment? 6 Even if his greatness rises to the heavens and his head reaches to the clouds, 7 he will perish forever like his own waste; those who have seen him will say, 'Where is he?' 8 Like a dream he flies away and is no more; he is chased away like a vision of the night. 9 The eye that saw him will see him no longer, and his place will behold him no more.
  • Job 27:16-18 : 16 Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up clothes like clay, 17 he may prepare it, but the righteous will wear it, and the innocent will divide his silver. 18 He builds his house like a moth’s cocoon, like a hut made by a watchman.
  • Ps 15:5 : 5 Who does not lend money at interest or accept a bribe against the innocent. The one who does these things will never be shaken.
  • Ps 125:1-2 : 1 A song of ascents. Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved but remains forever. 2 As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds His people, from this time forth and forevermore.