Proverbs 21:15 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁵ When justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous but dismay to evildoers.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁵ It is joy to the just to do judgment: and dread to them that work iniquity.

Proverbs 21:15 Cross References

Psalm 112:1

Praise the Lord! Happy are those who fear the Lord, who greatly delight in his commandments.

Psalm 119:16

I will delight in your statutes; I will not forget your word.

Psalm 119:92

If your law had not been my delight, I would have perished in my misery.

Psalm 40:8

I delight to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart.”

Proverbs 10:29

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

Proverbs 21:12

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

Proverbs 21:16

Whoever wanders from the way of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead.

Proverbs 5:20

Why should you be intoxicated, my son, by another woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?

Ecclesiastes 3:12

I know that there is nothing better for them than to be happy and enjoy themselves as long as they live;

Isaiah 64:5

You meet those who gladly do right, those who remember you in your ways. But you were angry, and we sinned; because you hid yourself we transgressed.

Matthew 7:23

Then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; go away from me, you who behave lawlessly.’

John 4:34

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to complete his work.

Romans 7:22

For I delight in the law of God in my inmost self,