Proverbs 16:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

The LORD has made all things for Himself: yes, even the wicked for the day of disaster.

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  • Rom 9:22 : 22 What if God, willing to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction:
  • 1 Pet 2:8 : 8 And a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense. They stumble, being disobedient to the word, to which they also were appointed.
  • Isa 43:21 : 21 This people I have formed for Myself; they shall declare My praise.
  • Isa 43:7 : 7 Everyone who is called by My name: for I have created him for My glory, I have formed him; yes, I have made him.
  • Rom 11:36 : 36 For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to whom be glory forever. Amen.
  • 2 Pet 2:9 : 9 The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment;
  • Rev 4:11 : 11 "You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory, honor, and power; for You created all things, and by Your will they exist and were created."
  • 2 Pet 2:3 : 3 And through covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; their judgment is long overdue, and their destruction does not slumber.
  • Job 21:30 : 30 That the wicked is reserved for the day of destruction? They shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.

Similar Verses (AI)

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    2Yet He also is wise, and will bring disaster, and will not call back His words: but will rise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of those who practice iniquity.

  • Prov 16:3
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    3Commit your works to the LORD, and your thoughts will be established.

  • Isa 45:7
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    7I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create calamity: I the LORD do all these things.

  • Job 21:30
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    30That the wicked is reserved for the day of destruction? They shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.

  • Eccl 3:11
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    11He has made everything beautiful in its time: also he has set eternity in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God does from the beginning to the end.

  • Ps 9:16
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    16The LORD is known by the judgment he executes; the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.

  • Eccl 3:16-17
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    16Moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.

    17I said in my heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time for every purpose and for every work.

  • Eccl 7:13-15
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    13Consider the work of God, for who can make straight what He has made crooked?

    14In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also has set the one against the other, so that man should find nothing after him.

    15All things have I seen in the days of my vanity; there is a just man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolongs his life in his wickedness.

  • Ps 36:4
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    4He devises mischief upon his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he does not abhor evil.

  • Eccl 12:14
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    14For God will bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.

  • Prov 16:30
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    30He shuts his eyes to devise perverse things; moving his lips, he brings evil to pass.

  • Prov 24:8
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    8He who devises to do evil shall be called a schemer.

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    16The face of the LORD is against those who do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

  • Prov 16:33
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    33The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the LORD.

  • Job 20:29
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    29This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage assigned to him by God.

  • Dan 9:14
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    14Therefore the LORD has watched over the calamity, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all His works which He does: for we have not obeyed His voice.

  • Eccl 9:1-3
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    1For all this I considered in my heart, even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God. No one knows either love or hatred by all that is before them.

    2All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked, to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean, to him that sacrifices, and to him that does not sacrifice; as is the good, so is the sinner; and he who swears, as he who fears an oath.

    3This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes, 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.

  • Ps 34:21
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    21Evil shall slay the wicked: and those who hate the righteous shall be desolate.

  • Job 4:8
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    8Even as I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow wickedness reap the same.

  • Prov 6:15
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    15Therefore his calamity shall come suddenly; suddenly he shall be broken without remedy.

  • Acts 15:18
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    18Known to God are all His works from the beginning of the world.

  • Eccl 8:14
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    14There is a vanity which is done upon the earth: there are just men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked; again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.

  • Prov 16:9
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    9A man's heart plans his way, but the LORD directs his steps.

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    12The righteous man wisely considers the house of the wicked, but God overthrows the wicked for their wickedness.

  • Lam 2:17
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    17The Lord has done what He had planned; He has fulfilled His word that He commanded in the days of old: He has thrown down, and has not pitied: and He has caused your enemy to rejoice over you, He has exalted the strength of your adversaries.

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    1The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, are from the LORD.

  • Ps 33:15
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    15He fashions their hearts alike; he considers all their works.

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    5Evil people do not understand judgment, but those who seek the LORD understand all things.

  • Ps 1:6
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    6For the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

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    3The eyes of the LORD are in every place, watching the evil and the good.

  • Prov 10:29
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    29The way of the LORD is strength to the upright, but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.

  • Ps 75:8
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    8For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture, and he pours out the same; but the dregs of it, all the wicked of the earth shall drain and drink.

  • Job 31:3
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    3Is not destruction for the wicked, and a strange punishment for the workers of iniquity?

  • Obad 1:15
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    15For the day of the LORD is near upon all the nations: as you have done, it shall be done to you; your recompense shall return upon your own head.

  • Prov 16:5
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    5Everyone that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though they join hand in hand, they shall not go unpunished.

  • Job 36:17
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    17But you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on you.

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    22This is one thing, therefore I have said it, He destroys the perfect and the wicked.

  • Prov 2:14
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    14Who rejoice to do evil and delight in the perversity of the wicked;

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    3For the wicked boasts of his heart's desire, and blesses the greedy, whom the LORD abhors.

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    4Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavors; give them after the work of their hands; render to them their due.

  • Isa 54:16
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    16Behold, I have created the smith who blows the coals in the fire, and that brings forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.

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    16For their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.

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    11Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed quickly, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.