Proverbs 2:22

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 52:5 : 5 Yet God will make you a permanent heap of ruins. He will scoop you up and remove you from your home; he will uproot you from the land of the living.(Selah)
  • Ps 104:35 : 35 May sinners disappear from the earth, and the wicked vanish! Praise the LORD, O my soul! Praise the LORD!
  • Ps 145:20 : 20 The LORD protects all those who love him, but he destroys all the wicked.
  • Prov 5:22-23 : 22 The wicked will be captured by his own iniquities, and he will be held by the cords of his own sin. 23 He will die because there was no discipline; because of the greatness of his folly he will reel.
  • Prov 10:30 : 30 The righteous will never be moved, but the wicked will not inhabit the land.
  • 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.
  • Deut 7:22 : 22 He, the God who leads you, will expel the nations little by little. You will not be allowed to destroy them all at once lest the wild animals overrun you.
  • Deut 28:63-64 : 63 This is what will happen: Just as the LORD delighted to do good for you and make you numerous, he will take delight in destroying and decimating you. You will be uprooted from the land you are about to possess. 64 The LORD will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, gods of wood and stone.
  • Job 18:16-18 : 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.
  • Job 21:30 : 30 that the evil man is spared from the day of his misfortune, that he is delivered from the day of God’s wrath?
  • Ps 37:20 : 20 But evil men will die; the LORD’s enemies will be incinerated– they will go up in smoke.
  • Ps 37:22 : 22 Surely those favored by the LORD will possess the land, but those rejected by him will be wiped out.
  • Ps 37:28 : 28 For the LORD promotes justice, and never abandons his faithful followers. They are permanently secure, but the children of evil men are wiped out.
  • Ps 37:37-38 : 37 Take note of the one who has integrity! Observe the upright! For the one who promotes peace has a future. 38 Sinful rebels are totally destroyed; evil men have no future.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 2:21
    83%

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

  • Ps 37:38
    82%

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

  • Prov 10:29-31
    3 verses
    81%

    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.

    31The speech of the righteous bears the fruit of wisdom, but the one who speaks perversion will be destroyed.

  • Ps 37:9-10
    2 verses
    79%

    9Wicked men will be wiped out, but those who rely on the LORD are the ones who will possess the land.

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

  • Ps 92:7
    78%

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

  • Ps 37:2
    77%

    2For they will quickly dry up like grass, and wither away like plants.

  • Prov 12:7
    76%

    7The wicked are overthrown and perish, but the righteous household will stand.

  • Ps 37:22
    76%

    22Surely those favored by the LORD will possess the land, but those rejected by him will be wiped out.

  • Job 18:16
    76%

    16Below his roots dry up, and his branches wither above.

  • Prov 11:5-6
    2 verses
    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 21:7
    75%

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

  • Ps 52:5
    74%

    5Yet God will make you a permanent heap of ruins. He will scoop you up and remove you from your home; he will uproot you from the land of the living.(Selah)

  • Ps 101:8
    74%

    8Each morning I will destroy all the wicked people in the land, and remove all evildoers from the city of the LORD.

  • Ps 34:21
    74%

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

  • Ps 37:34
    74%

    34Rely on the LORD! Obey his commands! Then he will permit you to possess the land; you will see the demise of evil men.

  • Prov 21:12
    74%

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

  • Prov 14:11
    74%

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

  • Isa 1:28
    74%

    28All rebellious sinners will be shattered, those who abandon the LORD will perish.

  • Prov 12:21
    74%

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

  • Prov 12:3
    74%

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

  • Prov 25:5
    74%

    5remove the wicked from before the king, and his throne will be established in righteousness.

  • Prov 12:12
    73%

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

  • Ps 37:27-29
    3 verses
    73%

    27Turn away from evil! Do what is right! Then you will enjoy lasting security.

    28For the LORD promotes justice, and never abandons his faithful followers. They are permanently secure, but the children of evil men are wiped out.

    29The godly will possess the land and will dwell in it permanently.

  • Ps 21:10
    73%

    10You destroy their offspring from the earth, their descendants from among the human race.

  • Prov 11:3
    73%

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

  • Prov 21:18
    73%

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

  • Ps 107:34
    73%

    34and a fruitful land into a barren place, because of the sin of its inhabitants.

  • Ps 34:16
    72%

    16But the LORD opposes evildoers and wipes out all memory of them from the earth.

  • Prov 24:20
    72%

    20for the evil person has no future, and the lamp of the wicked will be extinguished.

  • Ps 112:10
    72%

    10When the wicked see this, they will worry; they will grind their teeth in frustration and melt away; the desire of the wicked will perish.

  • Prov 14:32
    72%

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

  • Ps 1:5-6
    2 verses
    72%

    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.

  • Job 8:22
    72%

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

  • Ps 140:11
    72%

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

  • Prov 24:15
    71%

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

  • Isa 29:20
    71%

    20For tyrants will disappear, those who taunt will vanish, and all those who love to do wrong will be eliminated–

  • Job 21:30
    71%

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

  • Prov 11:31
    71%

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

  • Ps 125:3
    71%

    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.

  • Ps 129:4
    71%

    4The LORD is just; he cut the ropes of the wicked.”

  • Ps 37:32
    71%

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

  • Job 22:18
    71%

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

  • Ps 37:12
    71%

    12Evil men plot against the godly and viciously attack them.