Proverbs 16:4
Yahweh has made everything for its own end-- yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.
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Referenced Verses
- Rom 9:22 : 22 What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction,
- 1 Pet 2:8 : 8 and, "a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense." For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.
- Isa 43:21 : 21 the people which I formed for myself, that they might set forth my praise.
- Isa 43:7 : 7 everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.'"
- Rom 11:36 : 36 For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen.
- 2 Pet 2:9 : 9 the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;
- Rev 4:11 : 11 "Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created!"
- 2 Pet 2:3 : 3 In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn't linger, and their destruction will not slumber.
- Job 21:30 : 30 that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led forth to the day of wrath?
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3 Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed.
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7 I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.
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30 that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led forth to the day of wrath?
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11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can't find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.
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16 Yahweh has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah.
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16 Moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.
17 I said in my heart, "God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work."
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13 Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight, which he has made crooked?
14 In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yes, God has made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything after him.
15 All this have I seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evildoing.
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4 He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn't abhor evil.
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14 For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.
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30 One who winks his eyes to plot perversities, one who compresses his lips, is bent on evil.
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8 One who plots to do evil will be called a schemer.
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16 Yahweh's face is against those who do evil, to cut off the memory of them from the earth.
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33 The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from Yahweh.
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29 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, the heritage appointed to him by God."
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14 Therefore has Yahweh watched over the evil, and brought it on us; for Yahweh our God is righteous in all his works which he does, and we have not obeyed his voice.
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1 For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hatred, man doesn't know it; all is before them.
2 All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn't sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath.
3 This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
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21 Evil shall kill the wicked. Those who hate the righteous shall be condemned.
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8 According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.
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15 Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.
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18 All his works are known to God from eternity.'
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14 There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked. Again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.
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9 A man's heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.
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12 The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked, and brings the wicked to ruin.
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17 Yahweh has done that which he purposed; he has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old; He has thrown down, and has not pitied: He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you; he has exalted the horn of your adversaries.
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1 The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh.
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15 he who fashions all of their hearts; and he considers all of their works.
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5 Evil men don't understand justice; but those who seek Yahweh understand it fully.
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6 For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.
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3 Yahweh's eyes are everywhere, keeping watch on the evil and the good.
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29 The way of Yahweh is a stronghold to the upright, but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.
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8 For in the hand of Yahweh there is a cup, full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours it out. Indeed the wicked of the earth drink and drink it to its very dregs.
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3 Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?
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15 For the day of Yahweh is near all the nations! As you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return upon your own head.
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5 Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to Yahweh: they shall certainly not be unpunished.
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17 "But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you.
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22 "It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.
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14 who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil;
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19 The evil bow down before the good, and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.
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4 Yahweh is righteous. He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.
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3 For the wicked boasts of his heart's cravings. He blesses the greedy, and condemns Yahweh.
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4 Give them according to their work, and according to the wickedness of their doings. Give them according to the operation of their hands. Bring back on them what they deserve.
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16 "Behold, I have created the smith who blows the fire of coals, and brings forth a weapon for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.
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16 for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.
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11 Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.