Proverbs 2:21

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For the upright will be living in the land, and the good will have it for their heritage.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 37:29 : 29 The upright will have the earth for their heritage, and will go on living there for ever.
  • Ps 84:11 : 11 The Lord God is our sun and our strength: the Lord will give grace and glory: he will not keep back any good thing from those whose ways are upright.
  • Ps 37:9 : 9 For the evil-doers will be cut off: but those who have faith in the Lord will have the earth for their heritage.
  • Ps 37:11 : 11 But the gentle will have the earth for their heritage; they will take their delight in peace without measure.
  • Ps 37:22 : 22 Those who have his blessing will have the earth for their heritage; but those who are cursed by him will be cut off.
  • Job 1:1 : 1 There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. He was without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil.
  • Job 42:12 : 12 And the Lord's blessing was greater on the end of Job's life than on its start: and so he came to have fourteen thousand sheep and goats, and six thousand camels, and two thousand oxen, and a thousand she-asses.
  • Ps 37:3 : 3 Have faith in the Lord, and do good; be at rest in the land, and go after righteousness.
  • Ps 112:4-6 : 4 For the upright there is a light shining in the dark; he is full of grace and pity. 5 All is well for the man who is kind and gives freely to others; he will make good his cause when he is judged. 6 He will not ever be moved; the memory of the upright will be living for ever.
  • Prov 10:30 : 30 The upright man will never be moved, but evil-doers will not have a safe resting-place in the land.

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  • 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 10:29-30
    2 verses
    80%

    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.

  • Ps 37:27-29
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    78%

    27 Be turned from evil, and do good; and your place will be for ever.

    28 For the Lord is a lover of righteousness, and takes care of his saints; they will be kept safe for ever; but the seed of the evil-doers will be cut off.

    29 The upright will have the earth for their heritage, and will go on living there for ever.

  • Prov 2:20
    78%

    20 So that you may go in the way of good men, and keep in the footsteps of the upright.

  • Ps 101:6
    76%

    6 My eyes will be on those of good faith in the land, so that they may be living in my house; he who is walking in the right way will be my servant.

  • Prov 11:5-6
    2 verses
    75%

    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 37:18
    75%

    18 The days of the upright are numbered by the Lord, and their heritage will be for ever.

  • Prov 12:21
    75%

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

  • Ps 37:37-38
    2 verses
    74%

    37 Give attention to the good man, and take note of the upright; because the end of that man is peace.

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

  • Ps 15:2
    73%

    2 He who goes on his way uprightly, doing righteousness, and saying what is true in his heart;

  • Prov 14:11
    73%

    11 The house of the sinner will be overturned, but the tent of the upright man will do well.

  • Prov 11:3
    73%

    3 The righteousness of the upright will be their guide, but the twisted ways of the false will be their destruction.

  • Ps 37:9-11
    3 verses
    73%

    9 For the evil-doers will be cut off: but those who have faith in the Lord will have the earth for their heritage.

    10 For in a short time the evil-doer will be gone: you will go searching for his place, and it will not be there.

    11 But the gentle will have the earth for their heritage; they will take their delight in peace without measure.

  • Ps 125:4
    72%

    4 Do good, O Lord, to those who are good, and to those who are upright in heart.

  • Ps 140:13
    72%

    13 Truly, the upright will give praise to your name: the holy will have a place in your house.

  • Job 8:20
    72%

    20 Truly, God will not give up him who is without sin, and will not take evil-doers by the hand.

  • Prov 12:7
    72%

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

  • Ps 94:15
    72%

    15 But decisions will again be made in righteousness; and they will be kept by all whose hearts are true.

  • Prov 28:18
    72%

    18 He whose ways are upright will be safe, but sudden will be the fall of him whose ways are twisted.

  • Ps 101:2
    72%

    2 I will do wisely in the way of righteousness: O when will you come to me? I will be walking in my house with a true heart.

  • Job 17:8-9
    2 verses
    71%

    8 The upright are surprised at this, and he who has done no wrong is troubled because of the evil-doers.

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

  • Ps 37:34
    71%

    34 Be waiting for the Lord, and keep his way; and you will be lifted up, and have the land for your heritage: when the evil-doers are cut off, you will see it.

  • Isa 57:2
    71%

    2 They are at rest in their last resting-places, every one going straight before him.

  • Isa 26:7
    71%

    7 The way of the good man is straight; the road of the upright is made smooth by you.

  • Prov 21:8
    71%

    8 Twisted is the way of him who is full of crime; but as for him whose heart is clean, his work is upright.

  • Prov 13:6
    71%

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

  • Ps 37:22
    71%

    22 Those who have his blessing will have the earth for their heritage; but those who are cursed by him will be cut off.

  • Ps 112:6
    71%

    6 He will not ever be moved; the memory of the upright will be living for ever.

  • Prov 21:12
    71%

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

  • Ps 1:5-6
    2 verses
    71%

    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,

    6 Because the Lord sees the way of the upright, but the end of the sinner is destruction.

  • Job 22:8
    70%

    8 For it was the man with power who had the land, and the man with an honoured name who was living in it.

  • Prov 21:18
    70%

    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.

  • Prov 24:15
    70%

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

  • Isa 32:16
    70%

    16 Then in the waste land there will be an upright rule, and righteousness will have its place in the fertile field.

  • 2 Sam 22:26
    70%

    26 On him who has mercy you will have mercy; to the upright you will be upright;

  • Prov 28:10
    70%

    10 Anyone causing the upright to go wandering in an evil way, will himself go down into the hole he has made; but the upright will have good things for their heritage.

  • Deut 18:13
    70%

    13 You are to be upright in heart before the Lord your God.

  • Prov 10:9
    70%

    9 He whose ways are upright will go safely, but he whose ways are twisted will be made low.

  • Ps 97:11
    70%

    11 Light is shining on the lovers of righteousness, and for the upright in heart there is joy.

  • Prov 21:29
    70%

    29 The evil-doer makes his face hard, but as for the upright, he gives thought to his way.

  • Ps 112:2
    70%

    2 His seed will be strong on the earth; blessings will be on the generation of the upright.