Proverbs 11:23

A Conservative Version

The desire of the righteous is only good. The expectation of the wicked is wrath.

Cross References

Matthew 5:6

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, because they will be filled.

Psalm 37:4

Delight thyself also in LORD, and he will give thee the desires of thy heart.

Jeremiah 17:16

As for me, I have not hastened from being a shepherd after thee, nor have I desired the woeful day. Thou know. That which came out of my lips was before thy face.

Isaiah 26:9

With my soul I have desired thee in the night. Yea, with my spirit within me I will seek thee earnestly. For when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

Proverbs 10:28

The hope of the righteous [is] gladness, but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.

Psalm 10:17

LORD, thou have heard the desire of the humble. Thou will prepare their heart, thou will cause thine ear to hear,

Hebrews 10:27

but a certain fearful expectation of judgment and of fire, a fervor that is going to devour the opposition.

Proverbs 11:7

When a wicked man dies, [his] expectation shall perish, and the hope of iniquity perishes.

Psalm 119:10

With my whole heart I have sought thee. O let me not wander from thy commandments.

Psalm 119:5

O that my ways were established to observe thy statutes!

Psalm 27:4

One thing I have asked of LORD, that I will seek after, that I may dwell in the house of LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of LORD, and to inquire in his temple.

Proverbs 11:24

There is he who scatters, and increases yet more, and there he is who withholds more than is proper, but only to want.

Proverbs 12:5

The thoughts of the righteous are just. The counsels of the wicked are deceit.

Proverbs 13:2

A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth, but the soul of the treacherous, violence.