Proverbs 21:8 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁸ A guilty one’s conduct is crooked, but the behaviour of the innocent is upright.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ The way of man is froward and strange: But as for the pure, his work is right.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ The way of the guilty is exceedingly crooked, but as for the pure, his work is right and his conduct is straight.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ The way of him that is laden with guilt is exceeding crooked; But as for the pure, his work is right.

Common English Bible

⁸ The ways of some people are twisted and strange, but the behavior of those who do right is pure.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ The perverse way of a man is foreign. But whoever is pure: his work is upright.

Proverbs 21:8 Cross References

Genesis 6:12

God saw how corrupt the earth was, for every creature had corrupted its way on the earth.

Proverbs 15:26

The Lord detests the plans of the one who is evil, but pleasant words are pure.

Proverbs 2:15

whose paths are crooked, and whose ways are devious.

Proverbs 21:9

Better to live on the corner of a roof than to share a house with a nagging wife.

Proverbs 30:12

There is a generation that is pure in its own eyes, yet is not washed from its filth.

Ecclesiastes 7:29

Only see this: I have discovered that God made people upright,  but they pursued many schemes.’

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun: there is one fate for everyone. In addition, the hearts of people are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live;  after that they go to the dead.

Isaiah 26:7

The path of the righteous is level; you clear a straight path for the righteous.

Isaiah 59:8

They have not known the path of peace, and there is no justice in their ways. They have made their roads crooked; no one who walks on them will know peace.

Daniel 12:10

Many will be purified,  cleansed, and refined,  but the wicked will act wickedly;  none of the wicked will understand, but those who have insight will understand.

Matthew 12:33

‘Either make the tree good and its fruit will be good, or make the tree bad   and its fruit will be bad; for a tree is known by its fruit.

Matthew 5:8

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

Acts 15:9

He made no distinction between us and them,  cleansing their hearts by faith.

1 Corinthians 3:3

because you are still worldly. For since there is envy  and strife  , among you, are you not worldly and behaving like mere humans?

Titus 1:15

To the pure, everything is pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; in fact, both their mind and conscience  are defiled.

Titus 2:14

He gave himself for us  to redeem us from all lawlessness and to cleanse for himself a people for his own possession,  eager to do good works.

Titus 3:3

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions  and pleasures,  living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.

Titus 3:5

he saved us   #– #not by works of righteousness that we had done,  but according to his mercy   #– #through the washing of regeneration  and renewal by the Holy Spirit.

1 John 2:29

If you know that he is righteous, you know this as well: Everyone who does what is right  has been born of him.

1 John 3:3

And everyone who has this hope  in him purifies himself just as he is pure.