Proverbs 21:15 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁵ It is joy to the righteous to do judgement; But it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

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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 ye the LORD. Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, That delighteth greatly in his commandments.

Psalm 119:16

I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word. ג GIMEL

Psalm 119:92

Unless thy law had been my delight, I should then have perished in mine affliction.

Psalm 40:8

I delight to do thy will, O my God; Yea, thy law is within my heart.

Proverbs 10:29

The way of the LORD is a strong hold to the upright; But it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

Proverbs 21:12

The righteous man considereth the house of the wicked; How the wicked are overthrown to their ruin.

Proverbs 21:16

The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding Shall rest in the congregation of the dead.

Proverbs 5:20

For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a stranger?

Ecclesiastes 3:12

I know that there is nothing better for them, than to rejoice, and to do good so long as they live.

Isaiah 64:5

Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou wast wroth, and we sinned: in them have we been of long time, and shall we be saved?

Matthew 7:23

And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

John 4:34

Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to accomplish his work.

Romans 7:22

For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: