Proverbs 21:8

English Standard Version 2016

The way of the guilty is crooked, but the conduct of the pure is upright.

Cross References

Proverbs 2:15

men whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways.

1 John 3:3

And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.

1 John 2:29

If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.

Titus 3:5

he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.

Titus 1:15

To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their minds and their consciences are defiled.

1 Corinthians 3:3

for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way?

Acts 15:9

and he made no distinction between us and them, having cleansed their hearts by faith.

Matthew 12:33

“Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, for the tree is known by its fruit.

Matthew 5:8

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

Daniel 12:10

Many shall purify themselves and make themselves white and be refined, but the wicked shall act wickedly. And none of the wicked shall understand, but those who are wise shall understand.

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that the same event happens to all. Also, the hearts of the children of man are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

Ecclesiastes 7:29

See, this alone I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes.

Proverbs 30:12

There are those who are clean in their own eyes but are not washed of their filth.

Proverbs 15:26

The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord, but gracious words are pure.

Genesis 6:12

And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

Titus 2:14

who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.

Proverbs 21:9

It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.

Isaiah 26:7

The path of the righteous is level; you make level the way of the righteous.

Isaiah 59:8

The way of peace they do not know, and there is no justice in their paths; they have made their roads crooked; no one who treads on them knows peace.