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

²¹ For the upright will abide in the land, and the innocent will 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.

Proverbs 2:21 Cross References

Psalm 37:29

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

Psalm 37:9

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

Proverbs 10:30

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

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.

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 37:22

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

Psalm 37:11

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

Psalm 37:3

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

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.

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.

Psalm 37:18

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