Proverbs 16:4

Webster's Bible (1833)

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, whereunto 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,{TR omits "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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  • Isa 31:2
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    2Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evil-doers, and against the help of those who work iniquity.

  • Prov 16:3
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    3Commit your deeds to Yahweh, And your plans shall succeed.

  • Isa 45:7
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    7I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.

  • Job 21:30
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    30That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the day of wrath?

  • Eccl 3:11
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    11He 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.

  • Ps 9:16
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    16Yahweh has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah.

  • Eccl 3:16-17
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    71%

    16Moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.

    17I 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."

  • Eccl 7:13-15
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    13Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight, which he has made crooked?

    14In 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.

    15All 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 evil-doing.

  • Ps 36:4
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    4He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good; He doesn't abhor evil.

  • Eccl 12:14
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    14For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.

  • Prov 16:30
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    30One who winks his eyes to plot perversities, One who compresses his lips, is bent on evil.

  • Prov 24:8
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    8One who plots to do evil Will be called a schemer.

  • Ps 34:16
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    16Yahweh's face is against those who do evil, To cut off the memory of them from the earth.

  • Prov 16:33
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    33The lot is cast into the lap, But its every decision is from Yahweh.

  • Job 20:29
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    29This is the portion of a wicked man from God, The heritage appointed to him by God."

  • Dan 9:14
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    14Therefore 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.

  • Eccl 9:1-3
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    69%

    1For 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.

    2All 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.

    3This 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.

  • Ps 34:21
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    21Evil shall kill the wicked. Those who hate the righteous shall be condemned.

  • Job 4:8
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    8According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, And sow trouble, Reap the same.

  • Prov 6:15
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    15Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.

  • Acts 15:18
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    18All his works are known to God from eternity.'

  • Eccl 8:14
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    14There 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.

  • Prov 16:9
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    9A man's heart plans his course, But Yahweh directs his steps.

  • Prov 21:12
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    12The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked, And brings the wicked to ruin.

  • Lam 2:17
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    17Yahweh 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.

  • Prov 16:1
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    1The plans of the heart belong to man, But the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh.

  • Ps 33:15
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    15He who fashions all of their hearts; And he considers all of their works.

  • Prov 28:5
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    5Evil men don't understand justice; But those who seek Yahweh understand it fully.

  • Ps 1:6
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    6For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, But the way of the wicked shall perish.

  • Prov 15:3
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    3Yahweh's eyes are everywhere, Keeping watch on the evil and the good.

  • Prov 10:29
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    29The way of Yahweh is a stronghold to the upright, But it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

  • Ps 75:8
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    8For 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.

  • Job 31:3
    69%

    3Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, And disaster to the workers of iniquity?

  • Obad 1:15
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    15For 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.

  • Prov 16:5
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    5Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to Yahweh: They shall assuredly not be unpunished.

  • Job 36:17
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    17"But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you.

  • Job 9:22
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    22"It is all the same. Therefore I say, He destroys the blameless and the wicked.

  • Prov 2:14
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    14Who rejoice to do evil, And delight in the perverseness of evil;

  • Prov 14:19
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    19The evil bow down before the good, And the wicked at the gates of the righteous.

  • Ps 129:4
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    4Yahweh is righteous. He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.

  • Ps 10:3
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    3For the wicked boasts of his heart's cravings, He blesses the greedy, and condemns Yahweh.

  • Ps 28:4
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    4Give 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.

  • Isa 54:16
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    16Behold, 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.

  • Prov 1:16
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    16For their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.

  • Eccl 8:11
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    11Because 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.