Proverbs 16:4 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁴ The LORD hath made every thing for its own end: Yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ The LORD hath made all things for himself: Yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ The Lord has made everything [to accommodate itself and contribute] to its own end and His own purpose–even the wicked [are fitted for their role] for the day of calamity and evil.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ Jehovah hath made everything for its own end; Yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

Common English Bible

⁴ The LORD made everything for a purpose, even the wicked for an evil day.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ The Lord has wrought all things because of himself. Likewise the impious is for the evil day.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ The Lord hath made all things for himself: the wicked also for the evil day.

Proverbs 16:4 Cross References

Genesis 1:31

And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

Job 15:23

He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand:

Job 21:30

That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the day of wrath?

Exodus 9:16

but in very deed for this cause have I made thee to stand, for to shew thee my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.

Proverbs 16:5

Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: Though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

He hath made every thing beautiful in its time: also he hath set the world in their heart, yet so that man cannot find out the work that God hath done from the beginning even to the end.

Isaiah 43:21

the people which I formed for myself, that they might set forth my praise.

Isaiah 43:7

every one that is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory; I have formed him; yea, I have made him.

Romans 11:36

For of him, and through him, and unto him, are all things. To him be the glory for ever. Amen.

Romans 9:22

What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering vessels of wrath fitted unto destruction:

1 Peter 2:8

and, A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence; for they stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.

2 Peter 2:3

And in covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose sentence now from of old lingereth not, and their destruction slumbereth not.

2 Peter 2:9

the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment unto the day of judgement;

Revelation 4:11

Worthy art thou, our Lord and our God, to receive the glory and the honour and the power: for thou didst create all things, and because of thy will they were, and were created.