Proverbs 21:15

A Conservative Version

It is joy to the righteous to do justice, but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

Cross References

Proverbs 10:29

The way of LORD is a stronghold to the upright, but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

Matthew 7:23

And then I will profess to them, I never acknowledged you. Depart from me, ye who work lawlessness.

Isaiah 64:5

Thou meet him who rejoices and works righteousness, those who remember thee in thy ways. Behold, thou were angry, and we sinned. Therefore we have erred.

Ecclesiastes 3:12

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

Proverbs 21:12

A righteous man considers the house of the wicked: the wicked are overthrown to ruin.

Proverbs 5:20

For why should thou, my son, be ravished with an interloping woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

Psalm 119:16

I will delight myself in thy statutes. I will not forget thy word.

Psalm 112:1

Praise ye LORD. Blessed is the man who fears LORD, who delights greatly in his commandments.

Psalm 40:8

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

Romans 7:22

For I delight in the law of God according to the inner man,

John 4:34

Jesus says to them, My food is that I do the will of him who sent me, and may finish his work.

Psalm 119:92

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

Proverbs 21:16

The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall rest in the assembly of the dead.