Proverbs 21:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ The way of the guilty is crooked, but the conduct of the pure is right.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ The perverse way of a man is strange: but as for him that is pure, his work is right.

Proverbs 21:8 Cross References

Genesis 6:12

And God saw that the earth was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted its ways upon the earth.

Proverbs 15:26

Evil plans are an abomination to the Lord, but gracious words are pure.

Proverbs 2:15

those whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways.

Proverbs 21:9

It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a contentious wife.

Proverbs 30:12

There are those who are pure in their own eyes, yet are not cleansed of their filthiness.

Ecclesiastes 7:29

See, this alone I found, that God made human beings straightforward, but they have devised many schemes.

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This is an evil in all that happens under the sun, that the same fate comes to everyone. Moreover, the hearts of humans are full of evil; madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

Isaiah 26:7

The way of the righteous is level; straight is the path of the righteous that you clear.

Isaiah 59:8

The way of peace they do not know, and there is no justice in their ways. Their roads they have made crooked; no one who walks in them knows peace.

Daniel 12:10

Many shall be purified, cleansed, and refined, but the wicked shall continue to act wickedly. None of the wicked shall understand, but those who are wise shall understand.

Matthew 12:33

“Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, for the tree is known by its fruit.

Matthew 5:8

“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

Acts 15:9

and in cleansing their hearts by faith he has made no distinction between them and us.

1 Corinthians 3:3

for you are still fleshly. For as long as there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not fleshly and behaving according to human inclinations?

Titus 1:15

To the pure all things are pure, but to the corrupt and unbelieving nothing is pure; their very minds and consciences are corrupted.

Titus 2:14

He it is who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify for himself a people of his own who are zealous for good deeds.

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, despicable, hating one another.

Titus 3:5

he saved us, not because of any works of righteousness that we had done, but according to his mercy, through the water of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.

1 John 2:29

If you perceive that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who does right has been born of him.

1 John 3:3

And all who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.