Proverbs 21:15 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹⁵ 2 The wise man hath scaled the city of the strong, and hath cast down the strength of the confidence thereof.

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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

his heart is strengthened, he shall not be moved until he look over his enemies.

Psalm 119:16

3 For princes sat, and spoke against me: but thy servant was employed in thy justifications.

Psalm 119:92

9 I have understood more than all my teachers: because thy testimonies are my meditation.

Psalm 40:8

5 Let them immediately bear their confusion, that say to me : 'T is well, 't is well.

Proverbs 10:29

Riches shall not profit in the day of revenge: but justice shall deliver from death.

Proverbs 21:12

9 It is better to dwell in a wilderness, than with a quarrelsome and passionate woman.

Proverbs 21:16

3 He that keepeth his mouth and his tongue, keepeth his soul from distress.

Proverbs 5:20

Give not sleep to thy eyes, neither let thy eyelids slumber.

Ecclesiastes 3:12

9 Therefore the death of man, and of beasts is one, and the condition of them both is equal: as man dieth, so they also die: all things breathe alike, and man hath nothing more than beast: all things are subject to vanity.

Isaiah 64:5

THEY have sought me that before asked not for me, they have found me that sought me not. I said: Behold me, behold me, to a nation that did not call upon my name.

Matthew 7:23

And behold a leper came and adored him, saying: Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.

John 4:34

2 And they said to the woman: We now believe, not for thy saying: for we ourselves have heard him, and know that this is indeed the Saviour of the world.

Romans 7:22

For they that are according to the flesh, mind the things that are of the flesh; but they that are according to the spirit, mind the things that are of the spirit.