Proverbs 14:11

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 8:15 : 15 He leans against his house but it does not hold up, he takes hold of it but it does not stand.
  • Prov 3:33 : 33 The LORD’s curse is on the household of the wicked, but he blesses the home of the righteous.
  • Prov 12:7 : 7 The wicked are overthrown and perish, but the righteous household will stand.
  • Job 21:28 : 28 For you say,‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, and where are the tents in which the wicked lived?’
  • Ps 128:3 : 3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine in the inner rooms of your house; your children will be like olive branches, as they sit all around your table.
  • Job 8:6 : 6 if you become pure and upright, even now he will rouse himself for you, and will restore your righteous home.
  • Job 27:13-23 : 13 This is the portion of the wicked man allotted by God, the inheritance that evildoers receive from the Almighty. 14 If his children increase– it is for the sword! His offspring never have enough to eat. 15 Those who survive him are buried by the plague, and their widows do not mourn for them. 16 If he piles up silver like dust and stores up clothing like mounds of clay, 17 what he stores up a righteous man will wear, and an innocent man will inherit his silver. 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.
  • Ps 112:2-3 : 2 His descendants will be powerful on the earth; the godly will be blessed. 3 His house contains wealth and riches; his integrity endures.
  • Job 15:34 : 34 For the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of those who accept bribes.
  • Job 18:14-15 : 14 He is dragged from the security of his tent, and marched off to the king of terrors. 15 Fire resides in his tent; over his residence burning sulfur is scattered.
  • Job 18:21 : 21 ‘Surely such is the residence of an evil man; and this is the place of one who has not known God.’”
  • Job 20:26-28 : 26 Total darkness waits to receive his treasures; a fire which has not been kindled will consume him and devour what is left in his tent. 27 The heavens reveal his iniquity; the earth rises up against him. 28 A flood will carry off his house, rushing waters on the day of God’s wrath.
  • Prov 21:12 : 12 The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked; he overthrows the wicked to their ruin.
  • Prov 21:20 : 20 There is desirable treasure and olive oil in the dwelling of the wise, but a foolish person devours all he has.
  • Isa 58:11-12 : 11 The LORD will continually lead you; he will feed you even in parched regions. He will give you renewed strength, and you will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring that continually produces water. 12 Your perpetual ruins will be rebuilt; you will reestablish the ancient foundations. You will be called,‘The one who repairs broken walls, the one who makes the streets inhabitable again.’
  • Zech 5:4 : 4 “I will send it out,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,“and it will enter the house of the thief and of the person who swears falsely in my name. It will land in the middle of his house and destroy both timber and stones.”
  • Matt 7:26-27 : 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 11:28 : 28 The one who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will flourish like a green leaf.

Similar Verses (AI)

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

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

  • Prov 11:10-11
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    78%

    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.

  • Prov 11:3
    78%

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

  • Prov 10:29-30
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    77%

    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
    76%

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

  • Prov 11:5-6
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    75%

    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.

  • Prov 24:15
    75%

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

  • Prov 15:25
    74%

    25The LORD tears down the house of the proud, but he maintains the boundaries of the widow.

  • Prov 14:12
    74%

    12There is a way that seems right to a person, but its end is the way that leads to death.

  • Prov 11:28
    74%

    28The one who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will flourish like a green leaf.

  • Job 11:14
    74%

    14if iniquity is in your hand– put it far away, and do not let evil reside in your tents.

  • Prov 3:33
    74%

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

  • Prov 14:19
    74%

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

  • Prov 2:21-22
    2 verses
    74%

    21For the upright will reside in the land, and those with integrity will remain in it,

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

  • Prov 15:6
    74%

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

  • 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.

  • Prov 28:10
    73%

    10The one who leads the upright astray in an evil way will himself fall into his own pit, but the blameless will inherit what is good.

  • Ps 1:6
    73%

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

  • Job 12:6
    73%

    6But the tents of robbers are peaceful, and those who provoke God are confident– who carry their god in their hands.

  • Prov 13:9
    73%

    9The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked goes out.

  • Ps 92:7
    73%

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

  • Prov 21:7
    73%

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

  • Prov 14:32
    72%

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

  • Job 18:21
    72%

    21‘Surely such is the residence of an evil man; and this is the place of one who has not known God.’”

  • Prov 11:20
    72%

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

  • Prov 12:21
    72%

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

  • Ps 11:3
    72%

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

  • Prov 21:29
    72%

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

  • Job 20:28
    72%

    28A flood will carry off his house, rushing waters on the day of God’s wrath.

  • Prov 11:8
    72%

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

  • Job 18:14
    72%

    14He is dragged from the security of his tent, and marched off to the king of terrors.

  • Ps 37:17
    72%

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

  • Prov 10:25
    72%

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

  • Prov 10:9
    72%

    9The one who conducts himself in integrity will live securely, but the one who behaves perversely will be found out.

  • Job 8:22
    72%

    22Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more.”

  • Prov 29:16
    72%

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

  • Ps 37:38
    71%

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

  • Ps 140:11
    71%

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

  • Prov 12:3
    71%

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

  • Ps 97:11
    71%

    11The godly bask in the light; the morally upright experience joy.

  • Amos 6:11
    71%

    11Indeed, look! The LORD is giving the command. He will smash the large house to bits, and the small house into little pieces.

  • Prov 21:15
    71%

    15Doing justice brings joy to the righteous and terror to those who do evil.

  • Hab 2:9
    71%

    9The one who builds his house by unjust gain is as good as dead. He does this so he can build his nest way up high and escape the clutches of disaster.

  • Job 21:28
    71%

    28For you say,‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, and where are the tents in which the wicked lived?’

  • Prov 28:18
    71%

    18The one who walks blamelessly will be delivered, but whoever is perverse in his ways will fall at once.