Proverbs 11:31

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 25:29 : 29 For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the LORD of hosts.
  • 1 Cor 11:30-32 : 30 For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. 31 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. 32 But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
  • 1 Pet 4:17-18 : 17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? 18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
  • 2 Sam 7:14-15 : 14 I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men: 15 But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before thee.
  • 2 Sam 12:9-9 : 9 Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. 10 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife. 11 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun. 12 For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.
  • 1 Kgs 13:24 : 24 And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and his carcase was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also stood by the carcase.
  • Prov 13:21 : 21 Evil pursueth sinners: but to the righteous good shall be repayed.

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  • Prov 13:21-22
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    21Evil pursueth sinners: but to the righteous good shall be repayed.

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  • Isa 3:9-11
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    8Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.

  • Prov 11:8
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  • Prov 21:18
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  • Isa 5:23
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    10When it goeth well with the righteous, the city rejoiceth: and when the wicked perish, there is shouting.

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