Proverbs 21:8

God's Word

The way of a guilty person is crooked, but the behavior of those who are pure is moral.

Cross References

Genesis 6:12

God saw the world and how corrupt it was because all people on earth lived evil lives.

Proverbs 15:26

The thoughts of evil people are disgusting to the Lord, but pleasant words are pure to him.

Proverbs 2:15

Their paths are crooked. Their ways are devious.

Proverbs 21:9

Better to live on a corner of a roof than to share a home with a quarreling woman.

Proverbs 30:12

A certain kind of person thinks he is pure but is not washed from his own feces.

Ecclesiastes 7:29

I have found only this: God made people decent, but they looked for many ways ⌞to avoid being decent⌟.”

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This is the tragedy of everything that happens under the sun: Everyone shares the same destiny. Moreover, the hearts of mortals are full of evil. Madness is in their hearts while they are still alive. After that, they join the dead.

Isaiah 26:7

The path of the righteous is level. O Upright One, you make the road of the righteous smooth.

Isaiah 59:8

They don’t know the way of peace. There’s no justice on their highways. They’ve made their paths crooked. Whoever walks on them will never know peace.

Daniel 12:10

Many will be purified, made white, and refined. But wicked people will do wicked things, and none of them will understand. Only wise people will understand.

Matthew 12:33

“Make a tree good, and then its fruit will be good. Or make a tree rotten, and then its fruit will be rotten. A person can recognize a tree by its fruit.

Matthew 5:8

Blessed are those whose thoughts are pure. They will see God.

Acts 15:9

God doesn’t discriminate between Jewish and non-Jewish people. He has cleansed non-Jewish people through faith as he has cleansed us Jews.

1 Corinthians 3:3

because you’re still influenced by your corrupt nature. When you are jealous and quarrel among yourselves, aren’t you influenced by your corrupt nature and living by human standards?

Titus 1:15

Everything is clean  to those who are clean. But nothing is clean to corrupt unbelievers. Indeed, their minds and their consciences are corrupted.

Titus 2:14

He gave himself for us to set us free from every sin and to cleanse us so that we can be his special people who are enthusiastic about doing good things.

Titus 3:3

Indeed, we, too, were once stupid, disobedient, and misled. We were slaves to many kinds of lusts and pleasures. We were mean and jealous. We were hated, and we hated each other.

Titus 3:5

he saved us, but not because of anything we had done to gain his approval. Instead, because of his mercy he saved us through the washing in which the Holy Spirit gives us new birth and renewal.

1 John 2:29

If you know that Christ has God’s approval, you also know that everyone who does what God approves of has been born from God.

1 John 3:3

So all people who have this confidence in Christ keep themselves pure, as Christ is pure.