Proverbs 13:21

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Calamity pursues sinners, but prosperity rewards the righteous.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 32:10 : 10 An evil person suffers much pain, but the LORD’s faithfulness overwhelms the one who trusts in him.
  • Gen 4:7 : 7 Is it not true that if you do what is right, you will be fine? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at the door. It desires to dominate you, but you must subdue it.”
  • Prov 13:13 : 13 The one who despises instruction will pay the penalty, but whoever esteems direction will be rewarded.
  • Isa 3:10-11 : 10 Tell the innocent it will go well with them, for they will be rewarded for what they have done. 11 Woe to the wicked sinners! For they will get exactly what they deserve.
  • Rom 2:7-9 : 7 eternal life to those who by perseverance in good works seek glory and honor and immortality, 8 but wrath and anger to those who live in selfish ambition and do not obey the truth but follow unrighteousness. 9 There will be affliction and distress on everyone who does evil, on the Jew first and also the Greek, 10 but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, for the Jew first and also the Greek.
  • Acts 28:4 : 4 When the local people saw the creature hanging from Paul’s hand, they said to one another,“No doubt this man is a murderer! Although he has escaped from the sea, Justice herself has not allowed him to live!”
  • Num 32:23 : 23 “But if you do not do this, then look, you will have sinned against the LORD. And know that your sin will find you out.
  • Ps 140:11 : 11 A slanderer will not endure on the earth; calamity will hunt down a violent man and strike him down.

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    22A good person leaves an inheritance for his grandchildren, but the wealth of a sinner is stored up for the righteous.

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

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    31If the righteous are recompensed on earth, how much more the wicked sinner!

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

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

  • Ps 34:21
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    21Evil people self-destruct; those who hate the godly are punished.

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

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

  • Ps 37:21
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    21Evil men borrow, but do not repay their debt, but the godly show compassion and are generous.

  • Prov 21:18
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    18The wicked become a ransom for the righteous, and the treacherous are taken in the place of the upright.

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    16The reward which the righteous receive is life; the recompense which the wicked receive is judgment.

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    21Be assured that the evil person will not be unpunished, but the descendants of the righteous have escaped harm.

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    6In the transgression of an evil person there is a snare, but a righteous person can sing and rejoice.

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    20The one who associates with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

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

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    30that the evil man is spared from the day of his misfortune, that he is delivered from the day of God’s wrath?

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