Proverbs 12:7

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The wicked are overthrown and perish, but the righteous household will stand.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 10:25 : 25 When the storm passes through, the wicked are swept away, but the righteous are an everlasting foundation.
  • Prov 11:21 : 21 Be assured that the evil person will not be unpunished, but the descendants of the righteous have escaped harm.
  • Matt 7:24-27 : 24 Hearing and Doing“Everyone who hears these words of mine and does them is like a wise man who built his house on rock. 25 The rain fell, the flood came, and the winds beat against that house, but it did not collapse because its foundation had been laid on rock. 26 Everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27 The rain fell, the flood came, and the winds beat against that house, and it collapsed– it was utterly destroyed!”
  • Prov 14:1 : 1 Every wise woman has built her household, but a foolish woman tears it down with her own hands.
  • Prov 14:11 : 11 The household of the wicked will be destroyed, but the tent of the upright will flourish.
  • Prov 15:25 : 25 The LORD tears down the house of the proud, but he maintains the boundaries of the widow.
  • Prov 24:3-4 : 3 By wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it is established; 4 by knowledge its rooms are filled with all kinds of precious and pleasing treasures.
  • 2 Sam 7:16 : 16 Your house and your kingdom will stand before me permanently; your dynasty will be permanent.’”
  • 2 Sam 7:26 : 26 so you may gain lasting fame, as people say,‘The LORD of Heaven’s Armies is God over Israel!’ The dynasty of your servant David will be established before you,
  • Esth 9:6-9 : 6 In Susa the citadel the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men. 7 In addition, they also killed Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha, 8 Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha, 9 Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai, and Vaizatha, 10 the ten sons of Haman son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews. But they did not confiscate their property.
  • Esth 9:14 : 14 So the king issued orders for this to be done. A law was passed in Susa, and the ten sons of Haman were hanged.
  • Job 5:3-4 : 3 I myself have seen the fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his place of residence. 4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed at the place where judgment is rendered, nor is there anyone to deliver them.
  • Job 11:20 : 20 But the eyes of the wicked fail, and escape eludes them; their one hope is to breathe their last.”
  • Job 18:15-20 : 15 Fire resides in his tent; over his residence burning sulfur is scattered. 16 Below his roots dry up, and his branches wither above. 17 His memory perishes from the earth, he has no name in the land. 18 He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world. 19 He has neither children nor descendants among his people, no survivor in those places he once stayed. 20 People of the west are appalled at his fate; people of the east are seized with horror, saying,
  • Job 27:18-23 : 18 The house he builds is as fragile as a moth’s cocoon, like a hut that a watchman has made. 19 He goes to bed wealthy, but will do so no more. When he opens his eyes, it is all gone. 20 Terrors overwhelm him like a flood; at night a whirlwind carries him off. 21 The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place. 22 It hurls itself against him without pity as he flees headlong from its power. 23 It claps its hands at him in derision and hisses him away from his place.
  • Job 34:25 : 25 Therefore, he knows their deeds, he overthrows them in the night and they are crushed.
  • Ps 37:10 : 10 Evil men will soon disappear; you will stare at the spot where they once were, but they will be gone.
  • Ps 37:35-37 : 35 I have seen ruthless evil men growing in influence, like a green tree grows in its native soil. 36 But then one passes by, and suddenly they have disappeared! I looked for them, but they could not be found. 37 Take note of the one who has integrity! Observe the upright! For the one who promotes peace has a future.
  • Ps 73:18-19 : 18 Surely you put them in slippery places; you bring them down to ruin. 19 How desolate they become in a mere moment! Terrifying judgments make their demise complete!

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 21:12
    85%

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

  • Prov 14:11
    82%

    11The household of the wicked will be destroyed, but the tent of the upright will flourish.

  • Prov 10:29-30
    2 verses
    82%

    29The way of the LORD is like a stronghold for the upright, but it is destruction to evildoers.

    30The righteous will never be moved, but the wicked will not inhabit the land.

  • Prov 13:6
    81%

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

  • Prov 12:3
    80%

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

  • Prov 10:25
    79%

    25When the storm passes through, the wicked are swept away, but the righteous are an everlasting foundation.

  • Ps 1:4-6
    3 verses
    78%

    4Not so with the wicked! Instead they are like wind-driven chaff.

    5For this reason the wicked cannot withstand judgment, nor can sinners join the assembly of the godly.

    6Certainly the LORD guards the way of the godly, but the way of the wicked ends in destruction.

  • Ps 37:16-17
    2 verses
    77%

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

    17for evil men will lose their power, but the LORD sustains the godly.

  • Prov 12:5-6
    2 verses
    77%

    5The plans of the righteous are just; the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.

    6The words of the wicked lie in wait to shed innocent blood, but the words of the upright will deliver them.

  • Prov 24:15-16
    2 verses
    77%

    15Do not lie in wait like the wicked against the place where the righteous live; do not assault his home.

    16Indeed a righteous person will fall seven times, and then get up again, but the guilty will collapse in calamity.

  • Prov 11:5-8
    4 verses
    77%

    5The righteousness of the blameless will make their way smooth, but the wicked will fall through their own wickedness.

    6The righteousness of the upright will deliver them, but the treacherous will be ensnared by their own desires.

    7When a wicked person dies, his expectation perishes, and hope based on power has perished.

    8A righteous person was delivered out of trouble, then a wicked person took his place.

  • Prov 12:21
    77%

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

  • Prov 21:7
    76%

    7The violence done by the wicked will drag them away because they have refused to do what is right.

  • Prov 2:22
    76%

    22but the wicked will be removed from the land, and the treacherous will be torn away from it.

  • Ps 37:10
    76%

    10Evil men will soon disappear; you will stare at the spot where they once were, but they will be gone.

  • Prov 14:32
    76%

    32An evil person will be thrown down through his wickedness, but a righteous person takes refuge in his integrity.

  • Prov 14:19
    76%

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

  • Prov 12:26
    75%

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

  • Prov 11:3
    75%

    3The integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them.

  • Prov 15:6
    74%

    6In the house of the righteous is abundant wealth, but the income of the wicked will be ruined.

  • Prov 29:16
    74%

    16When the wicked increase, transgression increases, but the righteous will see their downfall.

  • Prov 28:28
    74%

    28When the wicked gain control, people hide themselves, but when they perish, the righteous increase.

  • Ps 92:7
    74%

    7When the wicked sprout up like grass, and all the evildoers glisten, it is so that they may be annihilated.

  • Ps 36:12
    74%

    12I can see the evildoers! They have fallen! They have been knocked down and are unable to get up!

  • Ps 37:38
    74%

    38Sinful rebels are totally destroyed; evil men have no future.

  • Prov 12:12
    74%

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

  • Ps 7:9
    74%

    9May the evil deeds of the wicked come to an end! But make the innocent secure, O righteous God, you who examine inner thoughts and motives!

  • Ps 112:6
    74%

    6For he will never be shaken; others will always remember one who is just.

  • Prov 11:10-11
    2 verses
    74%

    10When the righteous do well, the city rejoices; when the wicked perish, there is joy.

    11A city is exalted by the blessing provided from the upright, but it is destroyed by the counsel of the wicked.

  • Ps 37:32
    73%

    32Evil men set an ambush for the godly and try to kill them.

  • Ps 125:3
    73%

    3Indeed, the scepter of a wicked king will not settle upon the allotted land of the godly. Otherwise the godly might do what is wrong.

  • Prov 10:3
    73%

    3The LORD satisfies the appetite of the righteous, but he thwarts the craving of the wicked.

  • Ps 34:21
    73%

    21Evil people self-destruct; those who hate the godly are punished.

  • Prov 3:33
    73%

    33The LORD’s curse is on the household of the wicked, but he blesses the home of the righteous.

  • Ps 11:3
    73%

    3When the foundations are destroyed, what can the godly accomplish?”

  • Ps 140:11
    73%

    11A slanderer will not endure on the earth; calamity will hunt down a violent man and strike him down.

  • Prov 10:7
    73%

    7The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the reputation of the wicked will rot.

  • Job 22:18
    73%

    18But it was he who filled their houses with good things– yet the counsel of the wicked was far from me.

  • Ps 112:3
    72%

    3His house contains wealth and riches; his integrity endures.

  • Prov 28:1
    72%

    1Α wicked person fled, though no one was pursuing, but the righteous person can be as confident as a lion.