Verse 2

A good man obtains favor from the LORD, but a man of wicked plans will He condemn.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 8:35 : 35 For whoever finds me finds life and will obtain favor from the LORD.
  • Eccl 8:8 : 8 There is no man who has power over the spirit to retain the spirit, nor does he have power in the day of death; and there is no release from that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those who are given to it.
  • Isa 32:5-7 : 5 The vile person shall no longer be called noble, nor the miser said to be generous. 6 For the vile person will speak villainy, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make the soul of the hungry empty, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail. 7 The schemes of the miser are evil: he devises wicked plans to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaks what is right.
  • Acts 11:24 : 24 For he was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith, and a great many people were added to the Lord.
  • Rom 5:7 : 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die.
  • Ps 9:15 : 15 The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made; in the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.
  • Ps 112:5 : 5 A good man shows favor and lends; he will guide his affairs with discretion.
  • Prov 1:31 : 31 Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
  • Prov 6:18 : 18 A heart that devises wicked imaginations, feet that are swift in running to mischief,