Proverbs 2:21 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

²¹ For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ For the upright shall dwell in the land, And the perfect shall remain in it.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ 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)

²¹ For the upright shall dwell in the land, And the perfect shall remain in it.

Common English Bible

²¹ Those who have integrity will dwell in the land; the innocent will remain in it.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ 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

²¹ 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 a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.

Job 42:12

So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.

Psalm 37:11

But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

Psalm 37:18

The Lord knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be for ever.

Psalm 37:22

For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and they that be cursed of him shall be cut off.

Psalm 37:29

The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever.

Psalm 37:3

Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.

Psalm 37:9

For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the Lord, they shall inherit the earth.

Psalm 84:11

For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

Proverbs 10:30

The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.

Proverbs 28:10

Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession.