Proverbs 13:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ Righteousness guards one whose way is upright, but sin overthrows the wicked.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: But wickedness overthroweth the sinner.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ Righteousness (rightness and justice in every area and relation) guards him who is upright in the way, but wickedness plunges into sin and overthrows the sinner.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ Righteousness guardeth him that is upright in the way; But wickedness overthroweth the sinner.

Common English Bible

⁶ Righteousness guards the innocent on the path, but wickedness misleads sinners.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ Justice guards the way of the innocent. But impiety undermines the sinner.

Proverbs 13:6 Cross References

Proverbs 11:3

The integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them.

Proverbs 21:12

The Righteous One observes the house of the wicked; he casts the wicked down to ruin.

Psalm 140:11

Do not let the slanderer be established in the land; let evil speedily hunt down the violent!

Psalm 26:1

Vindicate me, O Lord, for I have walked in my integrity, and I have trusted in the Lord without wavering.

Psalm 25:21

May integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you.

Psalm 15:2

Those who walk blamelessly and do what is right and speak the truth from their heart;

Proverbs 5:22

The iniquities of the wicked ensnare them, and they are caught in the coils of their sin.

2 Chronicles 28:23

For he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus that had defeated him and said, “Because the gods of the kings of Aram helped them, I will sacrifice to them so that they may help me.” But they were the ruin of him and of all Israel.

Psalm 119:1

Happy are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord.

Proverbs 10:29

The way of the Lord is a stronghold for the upright but destruction for evildoers.

Proverbs 11:20

Crooked minds are an abomination to the Lord, but those of blameless ways are his delight.

1 Kings 1:52

So Solomon responded, “If he proves to be a worthy man, not one of his hairs shall fall to the ground, but if wickedness is found in him, he shall die.”

1 Kings 13:34

This matter became sin to the house of Jeroboam, so as to cut it off and to destroy it from the face of the earth.