Proverbs 16:4

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ The LORD hath made all [things] for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

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Referenced Verses

  • Rom 9:22 : 22 [What] if God, willing to shew [his] wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
  • 1 Pet 2:8 : 8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, [even to them] which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.
  • Isa 43:21 : 21 This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise.
  • Isa 43:7 : 7 [Even] every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
  • Rom 11:36 : 36 For of him, and through him, and to him, [are] all things: to whom [be] glory for ever. Amen.
  • 2 Pet 2:9 : 9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
  • Rev 4:11 : 11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.
  • 2 Pet 2:3 : 3 ¶ And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
  • Job 21:30 : 30 That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.

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    3¶ Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.

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    7I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these [things].

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    30That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.

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    16The LORD is known [by] the judgment [which] he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.

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    13Consider the work of God: for who can make [that] straight, which he hath made crooked?

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