Proverbs 13:21

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 32:10 : 10 The sinner will be full of trouble; but mercy will be round the man who has faith in the Lord.
  • Gen 4:7 : 7 If you do well, will you not have honour? and if you do wrong, sin is waiting at the door, desiring to have you, but do not let it be your master.
  • Prov 13:13 : 13 He who makes sport of the word will come to destruction, but the respecter of the law will be rewarded.
  • Isa 3:10-11 : 10 Happy is the upright man! for he will have joy of the fruit of his ways. 11 Unhappy is the sinner! for the reward of his evil doings will come on him.
  • Rom 2:7-9 : 7 To those who go on with good works in the hope of glory and honour and salvation from death, he will give eternal life: 8 But to those who, from a love of competition, are not guided by what is true, will come the heat of his wrath, 9 Trouble and sorrow on all whose works are evil, to the Jew first and then to the Greek; 10 But glory and honour and peace to all whose works are good, to the Jew first and then to the Greek:
  • Acts 28:4 : 4 And when the people saw it hanging on his hand, they said to one another, Without doubt this man has put someone to death, and though he has got safely away from the sea, God will not let him go on living.
  • Num 32:23 : 23 But if you do not do this, then you are sinners against the Lord; and you may be certain that your sin will have its reward.
  • Ps 140:11 : 11 Let not a man of evil tongue be safe on earth: let destruction overtake the violent man with blow on blow.

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  • Prov 11:18-19
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    18The sinner gets the payment of deceit; but his reward is certain who puts in the seed of righteousness.

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  • Prov 17:13
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    13If anyone gives back evil for good, evil will never go away from his house.

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

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

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

  • Ps 34:21
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  • Prov 14:19
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    19The knees of the evil are bent before the good; and sinners go down in the dust at the doors of the upright.

  • Prov 11:27
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    27He who, with all his heart, goes after what is good is searching for grace; but he who is looking for trouble will get it.

  • Ps 37:21
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    21The sinner takes money and does not give it back; but the upright man has mercy, and gives to others.

  • Prov 21:18
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    18The 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.

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

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    21Certainly the evil-doer will not go free from punishment, but the seed of the upright man will be safe.

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

  • Prov 29:6
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  • Prov 13:20
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    20Go with wise men and be wise: but he who keeps company with the foolish will be broken.

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  • Prov 11:5-6
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    5The righteousness of the good man will make his way straight, but the sin of the evil-doer will be the cause of his fall.

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  • Job 21:30-31
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    30How the evil man goes free in the day of trouble, and has salvation in the day of wrath?

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