Proverbs 21:15

Bible in Basic English 1965

It is a joy to the good man to do right, but it is destruction to the workers of evil.

Cross References

Psalm 112:1

Let the Lord be praised. Happy is the man who gives honour to the Lord, and has great delight in his laws.

Psalm 119:16

I will have delight in your rules; I will not let your word go out of my mind.

Psalm 119:92

If your law had not been my delight, my troubles would have put an end to me.

Psalm 40:8

My delight is to do your pleasure, O my God; truly, your law is in my heart.

Proverbs 10:29

The way of the Lord is a strong tower for the upright man, but destruction to the workers of evil.

Proverbs 21:12

The Upright One, looking on the house of the evil-doer, lets sinners be overturned to their destruction.

Proverbs 21:16

The wanderer from the way of knowledge will have his resting-place among the shades.

Proverbs 5:20

Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?

Ecclesiastes 3:12

I am certain that there is nothing better for a man than to be glad, and to do good while life is in him.

Isaiah 64:5

Will you not have mercy on him who takes pleasure in doing righteousness, even on those who keep in mind your ways? Truly you were angry, and we went on doing evil, and sinning against you in the past.

Matthew 7:23

And then will I say to them, I never had knowledge of you: go from me, you workers of evil.

John 4:34

Jesus said, My food is to do the pleasure of him who sent me and to make his work complete.

Romans 7:22

In my heart I take pleasure in the law of God,