Proverbs 21:8

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ The way of man [is] froward and strange: but [as for] the pure, his work [is] right.

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  • Prov 2:15 : 15 Whose ways [are] crooked, and [they] froward in their paths:
  • Prov 15:26 : 26 ¶ The thoughts of the wicked [are] an abomination to the LORD: but [the words] of the pure [are] pleasant words.
  • Prov 30:12 : 12 [There is] a generation [that are] pure in their own eyes, and [yet] is not washed from their filthiness.
  • Eccl 7:29 : 29 Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
  • Eccl 9:3 : 3 This [is] an evil among all [things] that are done under the sun, that [there is] one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness [is] in their heart while they live, and after that [they go] to the dead.
  • Dan 12:10 : 10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.
  • Matt 5:8 : 8 ‹Blessed› [are] ‹the pure in heart: for they shall see God.›
  • Matt 12:33 : 33 ‹Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by› [his] ‹fruit.›
  • Acts 15:9 : 9 And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.
  • 1 Cor 3:3 : 3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas [there is] among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
  • Eph 2:2-3 : 2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: 3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
  • Titus 1:15 : 15 Unto the pure all things [are] pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving [is] nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
  • Titus 2:14 : 14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
  • Titus 3:3 : 3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, [and] hating one another.
  • Titus 3:5 : 5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
  • 1 Pet 1:22-23 : 22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, [see that ye] love one another with a pure heart fervently: 23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
  • 1 John 2:29 : 29 If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.
  • 1 John 3:3 : 3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
  • Gen 6:5-6 : 5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man [was] great in the earth, and [that] every imagination of the thoughts of his heart [was] only evil continually. 6 ¶ And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
  • Gen 6:12 : 12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
  • Job 15:14-16 : 14 What [is] man, that he should be clean? and [he which is] born of a woman, that he should be righteous? 15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight. 16 How much more abominable and filthy [is] man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
  • Ps 14:2-3 : 2 The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, [and] seek God. 3 They are all gone aside, they are [all] together become filthy: [there is] none that doeth good, no, not one.

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