Proverbs 21:8

Easy To Read Version

Bad people always try to cheat other people. But good people are honest and fair.

Cross References

Proverbs 15:26

The Lord hates evil thoughts. But the Lord is happy with kind words.

Proverbs 2:15

Those people can’t be trusted—they lie and cheat. But your wisdom and understanding will keep you away from all these things.

Proverbs 21:9

It is better to live in a small corner of the attic {\cf2\super [30]} than to share the house with a woman that is always arguing.

Proverbs 30:12

Some people think they are good but they are really very bad.

Ecclesiastes 7:29

“There is one other thing I have learned: God made people good. But people found many ways to be bad.”

Ecclesiastes 9:3

Of all the things that happen in this life, the worst thing is that all people end the same way. But it is also very bad that people always think evil and foolish thoughts. And those thoughts lead to death.

Isaiah 26:7

Honesty is the way of living for good people.\par Good people follow the way\par that is straight and true.\par And God, you make that way smooth\par and easy to follow.\par

Isaiah 59:8

Those people don’t know the way of peace. Those people don’t do what is right and fair. They are very crooked. And people who live like that will never have peace in their lives.

Daniel 12:10

Many people will be made pure—they will make themselves clean. {\cf2\super [138]} But evil people will continue to be evil. And those wicked people will not understand these things. But the wise people will understand these things.

Matthew 12:33

“If you want good fruit, you must make the tree good. If your tree is not good then it will have bad fruit. A tree is known by the kind of fruit it makes.

Matthew 5:8

What great blessings there are for the people that are pure in their thinking!\par They will be with God.\par

Acts 15:9

To God, those people are not different from us. When they believed, God made their hearts pure.

1 Corinthians 3:3

You are still not spiritual people. You have jealousy and arguing among you. This shows that you are not spiritual. You are acting the same as people of the world.

Titus 1:15

To people that are pure, all things are pure. But to people who are full of sin and don’t believe, nothing is pure. Really, those people’s thinking has become evil and their knowledge of what is right has been ruined.

Titus 2:14

He gave himself for us. He died to free us from all evil. He died to make us pure people that belong only to him—people that are always wanting to do good things.

Titus 3:3

Grace (kindness) and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Titus 3:5

I thank God because I hear about the love you have for all God’s holy people {\cf2\super [1]} and the faith you have in the Lord Jesus.

1 John 2:29

You know that Christ is righteous (good). So you know that all people who do what is right (good) are God’s children.

1 John 3:3

Christ is pure. And every person who has this hope in Christ keeps himself pure like Christ.