Proverbs 14:9 - Revised Standard Version CI

⁹ God scorns the wicked, but the upright enjoy his favor.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ Fools make a mock at sin: But among the righteous there is favour.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ Fools make a mock of sin and sin mocks the fools [who are its victims; a sin offering made by them only mocks them, bringing them disappointment and disfavor], but among the upright there is the favor of God. [Prov. 10:23.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ A trespass-offering mocketh fools; But among the upright there is good will.

Common English Bible

⁹ Fools mock a compensation offering, but favor is with those who do right.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ The foolish will speak mockingly of sin. But grace lingers among the just.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ A fool will laugh at sin, but among the just grace shall abide.

Proverbs 14:9 Cross References

Job 15:16

how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!

Proverbs 1:22

“How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?

Proverbs 10:23

It is like sport to a fool to do wrong, but wise conduct is pleasure to a man of understanding.

Proverbs 11:20

Men of perverse mind are an abomination to the Lord, but those of blameless ways are his delight.

Proverbs 12:2

A good man obtains favor from the Lord, but a man of evil devices he condemns.

Proverbs 13:15

Good sense wins favor, but the way of the faithless is their ruin.

Proverbs 3:34

Toward the scorners he is scornful, but to the humble he shows favor.

Proverbs 3:4

So you will find favor and good repute in the sight of God and man.

Proverbs 30:20

This is the way of an adulteress: she eats, and wipes her mouth, and says, “I have done no wrong.”

Proverbs 8:35

For he who finds me finds life and obtains favor from the Lord;

Leviticus 5:7

“But if he cannot afford a lamb, then he shall bring, as his guilt offering to the Lord for the sin which he has committed, two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering.

Jude 1:18

they said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.”