Proverbs 12:2

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

A good person obtains favor from the LORD, but the LORD condemns a person with wicked schemes.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 8:35 : 35 For the one who finds me has found life and received favor from the LORD.
  • Eccl 8:8 : 8 Just as no one has power over the wind to restrain it, so no one has power over the day of his death. Just as no one can be discharged during the battle, so wickedness cannot rescue the wicked.
  • Isa 32:5-7 : 5 A fool will no longer be called honorable; a deceiver will no longer be called principled. 6 For a fool speaks disgraceful things; his mind plans out sinful deeds. He commits godless deeds and says misleading things about the LORD; he gives the hungry nothing to satisfy their appetite and gives the thirsty nothing to drink. 7 A deceiver’s methods are evil; he dreams up evil plans to ruin the poor with lies, even when the needy are in the right.
  • Acts 11:24 : 24 because he was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith, and a significant number of people were brought to the Lord.
  • Rom 5:7 : 7 (For rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person perhaps someone might possibly dare to die.)
  • Ps 9:15 : 15 The nations fell into the pit they had made; their feet were caught in the net they had hidden.
  • Ps 112:5 : 5 It goes well for the one who generously lends money, and conducts his business honestly.
  • Prov 1:31 : 31 Therefore they will eat from the fruit of their way, and they will be stuffed full of their own counsel.
  • Prov 6:18 : 18 a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that are swift to run to evil,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 12:7-8
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    7The wicked are overthrown and perish, but the righteous household will stand.

    8A person will be praised in accordance with his wisdom, but the one with a bewildered mind will be despised.

  • Ps 112:4-5
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    4In the darkness a light shines for the godly, for each one who is merciful, compassionate, and just.

    5It goes well for the one who generously lends money, and conducts his business honestly.

  • Prov 11:27
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    27The one who diligently seeks good seeks favor, but the one who searches for evil– it will come to him.

  • Prov 3:4
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    4Then you will find favor and good understanding, in the sight of God and people.

  • Prov 13:15
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    15Keen insight wins favor, but the conduct of the treacherous ends in destruction.

  • Prov 12:3
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    3No one can be established through wickedness, but a righteous root cannot be moved.

  • Prov 29:26-27
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    26Many people seek the face of a ruler, but it is from the LORD that one receives justice.

    27An unjust person is an abomination to the righteous, and the one who lives an upright life is an abomination to the wicked.

  • Prov 21:12
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    12The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked; he overthrows the wicked to their ruin.

  • Lam 3:36
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    36to defraud a person in a lawsuit– the Lord does not approve of such things!

  • Isa 26:10
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    10If the wicked are shown mercy, they do not learn about justice. Even in a land where right is rewarded, they act unjustly; they do not see the LORD’s majesty revealed.

  • Prov 12:12
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    12The wicked person has desired the stronghold of the wicked, but the root of the righteous will yield fruit.

  • Prov 12:14
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    14A person will be satisfied with good from the fruit of his words, and the work of his hands will be rendered to him.

  • Prov 15:9
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    9The LORD abhors the way of the wicked, but he will love those who pursue righteousness.

  • Prov 13:5-6
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    5The righteous person will reject anything false, but the wicked person will act in shameful disgrace.

    6Righteousness guards the one who lives with integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.

  • Prov 14:34-35
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    34Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.

    35The king shows favor to a wise servant, but his wrath falls on one who acts shamefully.

  • Prov 14:19
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    19Bad people have bowed before good people, and wicked people have bowed at the gates of someone righteous.

  • Prov 12:26
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    26The righteous person is cautious in his friendship, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

  • Ps 125:4
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    4Do good, O LORD, to those who are good, to the morally upright!

  • Prov 17:23
    72%

    23A wicked person receives a bribe secretly to pervert the ways of justice.

  • Prov 14:22
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    22Do not those who devise evil go astray? But those who plan good exhibit faithful covenant love.

  • Prov 2:12
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    12to deliver you from the way of the wicked, from those speaking perversity,

  • Prov 21:29
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    29A wicked person has put on a bold face, but as for the upright, he establishes his ways.

  • Prov 21:10
    72%

    10The appetite of the wicked has desired evil; his neighbor is shown no favor in his eyes.

  • Prov 11:20
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    20The LORD abhors those who are perverse in heart, but those who are blameless in their ways are his delight.

  • Prov 12:5
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    5The plans of the righteous are just; the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.

  • Prov 18:5
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    5It is terrible to show partiality to the wicked, by depriving a righteous man of justice.

  • Prov 19:22
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    22What is desirable for a person is to show loyal love, and a poor person is better than a liar.

  • Prov 14:2
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    2The one who walks in his uprightness fears the LORD, but the one who is perverted in his ways despises him.

  • Prov 3:32
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    32for one who goes astray is an abomination to the LORD, but he reveals his intimate counsel to the upright.

  • Prov 16:7
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    7When a person’s ways are pleasing to the LORD, he even reconciles his enemies to himself.

  • Matt 12:35
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    35The good person brings good things out of his good treasury, and the evil person brings evil things out of his evil treasury.

  • Prov 28:23
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    23The one who reproves another will in the end find more favor than the one who flatters with the tongue.

  • Prov 11:18
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    18The wicked person earns deceitful wages, but the one who sows righteousness reaps a genuine reward.

  • Prov 12:21
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    21No harm will be directed at the righteous, but the wicked are filled with calamity.

  • Prov 12:1
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    1The one who loves discipline loves knowledge, but the one who hates reproof is stupid.

  • Ps 37:32
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    32Evil men set an ambush for the godly and try to kill them.

  • Prov 11:23
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    23The desire of the righteous is only good, but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.

  • Ps 1:6
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    6Certainly the LORD guards the way of the godly, but the way of the wicked ends in destruction.

  • Prov 22:12
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    12The eyes of the LORD watched over a cause, and subverted the words of the treacherous person.

  • Prov 14:17
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    17A person who has a quick temper will do foolish things, and a person with crafty schemes will be hated.

  • Ps 10:3
    71%

    3Yes, the wicked man boasts because he gets what he wants; the one who robs others curses and rejects the LORD.

  • Ps 37:22-23
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    22Surely those favored by the LORD will possess the land, but those rejected by him will be wiped out.

    23The LORD grants success to the one whose behavior he finds commendable.

  • Ps 37:16
    71%

    16The little bit that a godly man owns is better than the wealth of many evil men,

  • Isa 31:2
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    2Yet he too is wise and he will bring disaster; he does not retract his decree. He will attack the wicked nation, and the nation that helps those who commit sin.