Proverbs 21:8

Catholic Public Domain Version

The perverse way of a man is foreign. But whoever is pure: his work is upright.

Cross References

Genesis 6:12

And when God had seen that the earth had been corrupted, (indeed, all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth)

Proverbs 15:26

Evil intentions are an abomination to the Lord. And pure conversation, most beautiful, shall be confirmed by him.

Proverbs 2:15

Their ways are perverse, and their steps are infamous.

Proverbs 21:9

It is better to sit in a corner of the attic, than with a contentious woman and in a shared house.

Proverbs 30:12

There is a generation which seems pure to themselves, and yet they are not even washed from their filthiness.

Ecclesiastes 7:29

which my soul still seeks and has not found. One man among a thousand, I have found; a woman among them all, I have not found.

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This is a very great burden among all things that are done under the sun: that the same things happen to everyone. And when the hearts of the sons of men are filled with malice and contempt in their lives, afterwards they shall be dragged down to hell.

Isaiah 26:7

The path of the just is upright; the difficult path of the just is right to walk in.

Isaiah 59:8

They have not known the way of peace, and there is no judgment in their steps. Their paths have become crooked for them. Anyone who treads in them knows no peace.

Daniel 12:10

Many will be chosen and purified, and, as if by fire, they will be tested, and the impious will act impiously, and none of the impious will understand, yet the teachers will understand.

Matthew 12:33

Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree evil and its fruit evil. For certainly a tree is known by its fruit.

Matthew 5:8

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Acts 15:9

And he distinguished nothing between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.

1 Corinthians 3:3

And since there is still envy and contention among you, are you not carnal, and are you not walking according to man?

Titus 1:15

All things are clean to those who are clean. But to those who are defiled, and to unbelievers, nothing is clean; for both their mind and their conscience have been polluted.

Titus 2:14

He gave himself for our sake, so that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and might cleanse for himself an acceptable people, pursuers of good works.

Titus 3:3

For, in times past, we ourselves were also unwise, unbelieving, erring, servants of various desires and pleasures, acting with malice and envy, being hateful and hating one another.

Titus 3:5

And he saved us, not by works of justice that we had done, but, in accord with his mercy, by the washing of regeneration and by the renovation of the Holy Spirit,

1 John 2:29

If you know that he is just, then know, too, that all who do what is just are born of him.

1 John 3:3

And everyone who holds this hope in him, keeps himself holy, just as he also is holy.