Proverbs 21:15 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

¹⁵ It is joy to the righteous to do justice; but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ It is joy to the just to do judgment: But destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ When justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous (the upright, in right standing with God), but to the evildoers it is dismay, calamity, and ruin.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ It is joy to the righteous to do justice; But it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ Acting justly is a joy to the righteous, but dreaded by those who do evil.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ It is gladness for the just to do judgment; and it is dread for those who work iniquity.

Proverbs 21:15 Cross References

Psalm 112:1

Praise the LORD! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who delights greatly in his mitzvot.

Psalm 119:16

I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word.

Psalm 119:92

Unless your law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.

Psalm 40:8

I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.*

Proverbs 10:29

The way of the LORD is a stronghold to the upright, but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

Proverbs 21:12

The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked, and brings the wicked to ruin.

Proverbs 21:16

The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall rest in the assembly of the dead.

Proverbs 5:20

For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?

Ecclesiastes 3:12

I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good as long as they live.

Isaiah 64:5

You meet him who rejoices and works righteousness, those who remember you in your ways: behold, you were angry, and we sinned: in them [have we been] of long time; and shall we be saved?

Matthew 7:23

Then I will tell them, 'I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.'

John 4:34

Yeshua said to them, *My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.

Romans 7:22

For I delight in God's law after the inward man,