Proverbs 21:8 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁸ 5 It is joy to the just to do judgment: and dread to them that work iniquity.

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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

2 And when God had seen that the earth was corrupted (for all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth,)

Proverbs 15:26

3 The fear of the Lord is the lesson of wisdom: and humility goeth before glory.

Proverbs 2:15

2 But the wicked shall be destroyed from the earth: and they that do unjustly shall be taken away from it.

Proverbs 21:9

6 A man that shall wander out of the way of doctrine, shall abide in the company of the giants.

Proverbs 30:12

9 The way of an eagle in the air, the way of a serpent upon a rock, the way of a ship in the midst of the sea, and the way of a man in youth.

Ecclesiastes 7:29

Because he is ignorant of things past, and things to come he cannot know by any messenger.

Ecclesiastes 9:3

0 Whatsoever thy hand is able to do, do it earnestly: for neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge shall be in hell, whither thou art hastening.

Isaiah 26:7

5 Thou hast been favourable to the nation, O Lord, thou hast been favourable to the nation: art thou glorified? thou hast removed all the ends of the earth far off.

Isaiah 59:8

6 And he saw that there is not a man: and he stood astonished, because there is none to oppose himself: and his own arm brought salvation to him, and his own justice supported him.

Daniel 12:10

And in that day I will break in pieces the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezrahel.

Matthew 12:33

1 The men of Ninive shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they did penance at the preaching of Jonas. And behold a greater than Jonas here.

Matthew 5:8

6 So let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

Acts 15:9

7 That the residue of men may seek after the Lord, and all nations upon whom my name is invoked, saith the Lord, who doth these things.

1 Corinthians 3:3

2 Now if any man build upon this foundation, gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble:

Titus 1:15

The sound word that can not be blamed: that he, who is on the contrary part, may be afraid, having no evil to say of us.

Titus 2:14

It is a faithful saying: and these things I will have thee affirm constantly: that they, who believe in God, may be careful to excel in good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.

Titus 3:3

2 When I shall send to thee Artemas or Tychicus, make haste to come unto me to Nicopolis. For there I have determined to winter.

Titus 3:5

4 And let our men also learn to excel in good works for necessary uses: that they be not unfruitful.

1 John 2:29

Whosoever is born of God, commmitteth not sin: for his seed abideth in him, and he can not sin, because he is born of God.

1 John 3:3

2 Not as Cain, who was of the wicked one, and killed his brother. And wherefore did he kill him? Because his own works were wicked: and his brother's just.