Proverbs 2:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

For the upright will abide in the land, and the innocent will remain in it,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

For the upright shall dwell in the land, And the perfect shall remain in it.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the men of integrity, blameless and complete [in God's sight], shall remain in it;

American Standard Version (1901)

For the upright shall dwell in the land, And the perfect shall remain in it.

Common English Bible

Those who have integrity will dwell in the land; the innocent will remain in it.

Catholic Public Domain Version

For those who are upright shall live upon the earth, and the simple shall continue upon it.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For they that are upright shall dwell in the earth, and the simple shall continue in it.

Proverbs 2:21 Cross References

Job 1:1

There was once a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.

Job 42:12

The Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning, and he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand donkeys.

Psalm 37:11

But the meek shall inherit the land and delight themselves in abundant prosperity.

Psalm 37:18

The Lord knows the days of the blameless, and their heritage will abide forever;

Psalm 37:22

surely those blessed by the Lord shall inherit the land, but those cursed by him shall be cut off.

Psalm 37:29

The righteous shall inherit the land and live in it forever.

Psalm 37:3

Trust in the Lord and do good; live in the land and enjoy security.

Psalm 37:9

For the wicked shall be cut off, but those who wait for the Lord shall inherit the land.

Psalm 84:11

For the Lord God is a sun and shield; he bestows favor and honor. No good thing does the Lord withhold from those who walk uprightly.

Proverbs 10:30

The righteous will never totter, but the wicked will not remain on the earth.

Proverbs 28:10

Those who mislead the upright into evil ways will fall into pits of their own making, but the blameless will have a goodly inheritance.