Proverbs 11:21

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Certainly the evil-doer will not go free from punishment, but the seed of the upright man will be safe.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 16:5 : 5 Everyone who has pride in his heart is disgusting to the Lord: he will certainly not go free from punishment.
  • Jer 32:39 : 39 And I will give them one heart and one way, so that they may go on in the worship of me for ever, for their good and the good of their children after them:
  • Acts 2:39 : 39 For the word of God is for you and for your children and for all those who are far off, even all those who may be marked out by the Lord our God.
  • Ps 112:1-2 : 1 Let the Lord be praised. Happy is the man who gives honour to the Lord, and has great delight in his laws. 2 His seed will be strong on the earth; blessings will be on the generation of the upright.
  • Prov 13:22 : 22 The heritage of the good man is handed down to his children's children; and the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the upright man.
  • Exod 23:2 : 2 Do not be moved to do wrong by the general opinion, or give the support of your words to a wrong decision:
  • Ps 37:26 : 26 All the day he is ready to have mercy and to give; his children are a blessing.
  • Isa 27:4 : 4 My passion is over: if the thorns were fighting against me, I would make an attack on them, and they would be burned up together.
  • Gen 17:7-8 : 7 And I will make between me and you and your seed after you through all generations, an eternal agreement to be a God to you and to your seed after you. 8 And to you and to your seed after you, I will give the land in which you are living, all the land of Canaan for an eternal heritage; and I will be their God.

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  • Prov 16:5
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    5 Everyone who has pride in his heart is disgusting to the Lord: he will certainly not go free from punishment.

  • Isa 3:11
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    11 Unhappy is the sinner! for the reward of his evil doings will come on him.

  • Prov 13:21
    75%

    21 Evil will overtake sinners, but the upright will be rewarded with good.

  • Prov 11:18-19
    2 verses
    74%

    18 The sinner gets the payment of deceit; but his reward is certain who puts in the seed of righteousness.

    19 So righteousness gives life; but he who goes after evil gets death for himself.

  • Prov 12:21
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    21 No trouble will come to upright men, but sinners will be full of evil.

  • Ps 125:3
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    3 For the rod of sinners will not be resting on the heritage of the upright; so that the upright may not put out their hands to evil.

  • Prov 21:7
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    7 By their violent acts the evil-doers will be pulled away, because they have no desire to do what is right.

  • Prov 11:31
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    31 If the upright man is rewarded on earth, how much more the evil-doer and the sinner!

  • Prov 11:5-6
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    73%

    5 The righteousness of the good man will make his way straight, but the sin of the evil-doer will be the cause of his fall.

    6 The righteousness of the upright will be their salvation, but the false will themselves be taken in their evil designs.

  • Ps 26:10
    73%

    10 In whose hands are evil designs, and whose right hands take money for judging falsely.

  • Job 21:30
    73%

    30 How the evil man goes free in the day of trouble, and has salvation in the day of wrath?

  • 1 Sam 24:13
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    13 May the Lord be judge between me and you, and may the Lord give me my rights against you, but my hand will never be lifted up against you.

  • Prov 21:18
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    18 The evil-doer will be given as a price for the life of the good man, and the worker of deceit in the place of the upright.

  • Ps 34:21
    73%

    21 Evil will put an end to the sinner, and those who are haters of righteousness will come to destruction.

  • Ps 94:21
    72%

    21 They are banded together against the soul of the upright, to give decisions against those who have done no wrong.

  • Ps 1:5
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    5 For this cause there will be no mercy for sinners when they are judged, and the evil-doers will have no place among the upright,

  • Job 21:16
    72%

    16 Truly, is not their well-being in their power? (The purpose of the evil-doers is far from me.)

  • Prov 21:12
    72%

    12 The Upright One, looking on the house of the evil-doer, lets sinners be overturned to their destruction.

  • Mic 7:3
    72%

    3 Their hands are made ready to do evil; the ruler makes requests for money, and the judge is looking for a reward; and the great man gives decisions at his pleasure, and the right is twisted.

  • Isa 31:2
    71%

    2 Though he is wise, and able to send evil, and his purpose will not be changed; but he will go against the house of the evil-doers, and against those to whom they are looking for help.

  • Ps 37:17
    71%

    17 For the arms of the evil-doers will be broken: but the Lord is the support of the good.

  • Prov 11:23
    71%

    23 The desire of the upright man is only for good, but wrath is waiting for the evil-doer.

  • Prov 10:29-30
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    71%

    29 The way of the Lord is a strong tower for the upright man, but destruction to the workers of evil.

    30 The upright man will never be moved, but evil-doers will not have a safe resting-place in the land.

  • Prov 12:12
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    12 The resting-place of the sinner will come to destruction, but the root of upright men is for ever.

  • Prov 29:16
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    16 When evil men are in power, wrongdoing is increased; but the upright will have pleasure when they see their downfall.

  • Prov 10:16
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    16 The work of the upright gives life: the increase of the evil-doer is a cause of sin.

  • Prov 11:8
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    8 The upright man is taken out of trouble, and in his place comes the sinner.

  • Job 17:9
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    9 Still the upright keeps on his way, and he who has clean hands gets new strength.

  • Job 4:8
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    8 What I have seen is that those by whom trouble has been ploughed, and evil planted, get the same for themselves.

  • Prov 12:7
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    7 Evil-doers are overturned and never seen again, but the house of upright men will keep its place.

  • Prov 14:19
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    19 The knees of the evil are bent before the good; and sinners go down in the dust at the doors of the upright.

  • Ps 37:38
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    38 But as for the sinners, they will be cut off together; the end of the wrongdoers is destruction.

  • Prov 12:3
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    3 No man will make himself safe through evil-doing; but the root of upright men will never be moved.

  • Prov 13:6
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    6 Righteousness keeps safe him whose way is without error, but evil-doers are overturned by sin.

  • 2 Sam 23:6
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    6 But the evil-doers, all of them, will be like thorns to be pushed away, because they may not be gripped in the hand:

  • Isa 14:20
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    20 As for your fathers, you will not be united with them in their resting-place, because you have been the cause of destruction to your land, and of death to your people; the seed of the evil-doer will have no place in the memory of man.

  • Job 34:8
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    8 And goes in the company of evil-doers, walking in the way of sinners?

  • Ps 58:2
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    2 The purposes of your hearts are evil; your hands are full of cruel doings on the earth.

  • Prov 29:27
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    27 An evil man is disgusting to the upright, and he who is upright is disgusting to evil-doers.

  • Eccl 8:13
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    13 But it will not be well for the evil-doer; he will not make his days long like a shade, because he has no fear before God.

  • Job 36:17
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    17 ...

  • Ps 37:32
    69%

    32 The sinners are watching the upright man, desiring to put him to death.

  • Job 31:3
    69%

    3 Is it not trouble for the sinner, and destruction for the evil-doers?

  • Prov 24:15
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    15 Do not keep a secret watch, O evil-doer, against the fields of the upright man, or send destruction on his resting-place:

  • Prov 29:6
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    6 In the steps of an evil man there is a net for him, but the upright man gets away quickly and is glad.

  • Prov 2:22
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    22 But sinners will be cut off from the land, and those whose acts are false will be uprooted.

  • Prov 10:3
    69%

    3 The Lord will not let the upright be in need of food, but he puts far from him the desire of the evil-doers.