Proverbs 11:11

Catholic Public Domain Version

By the blessing of the just, the city shall be exalted. And by the mouth of the impious, it will be subverted.

Cross References

Genesis 45:8

I was sent here, not by your counsel, but by the will of God. He has caused me to be like a father to Pharaoh, and to be the lord of his entire house, as well as governor throughout all the land of Egypt.

2 Samuel 20:1

And it happened that there was, in that place, a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a man of Benjamin. And he sounded the trumpet, and he said: "There is no portion for us in David, nor any inheritance in the son of Jesse. Return to your own tents, O Israel."

Job 22:30

The innocent will be saved, and he will be saved with purity in his hands.

Proverbs 11:10

In the good of the just, the city shall exult. And in the perdition of the impious, there shall be praise.

Proverbs 11:12

Whoever despises his friend is destitute in heart. But the prudent man will remain silent.

Proverbs 14:34

Justice elevates a nation. But sin makes the peoples miserable.

Proverbs 28:2

Because of the sins of the land, it has many princes. And because of the wisdom of a man, and the knowledge of those things that are said, the life of the leader shall be prolonged.

Proverbs 29:8

Pestilent men squander a city. Yet truly, the wise avert fury.

Ecclesiastes 9:15

And there was found within it, a poor and wise man, and he freed the city through his wisdom, and nothing was recorded afterward of that poor man.

James 3:6

And so the tongue is like a fire, comprising all iniquity. The tongue, stationed in the midst of our body, can defile the entire body and inflame the wheel of our nativity, setting a fire from Hell.