Proverbs 21:8

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

Criminals cause trouble wherever they go, but good people are honest and fair.

Cross References

Proverbs 2:15

Their ways are crooked; they lie and cheat.

1 John 3:3

He is pure, and everyone who has this hope in him keeps themselves pure like Christ.

1 John 2:29

You know that Christ always did what was right. So you know that all those who do what is right are God’s children.

Titus 3:5

He saved us because of his mercy, not because of any good things we did. He saved us through the washing that made us new people. He saved us by making us new through the Holy Spirit.

Titus 3:3

In the past we were foolish too. We did not obey, we were wrong, and we were slaves to the many things our bodies wanted and enjoyed. We lived doing evil and being jealous. People hated us and we hated each other.

Titus 1:15

To people who are pure, everything is pure. But to those who are full of sin and don’t believe, nothing is pure. Really, their thinking has become evil and their consciences have been ruined.

1 Corinthians 3:3

You are still not following the Spirit. You are jealous of each other, and you are always arguing with each other. This shows that you are still following your own selfish desires. You are acting like ordinary people of the world.

Acts 15:9

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

Matthew 12:33

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

Matthew 5:8

Great blessings belong to those whose thoughts are pure. They will be with God.

Daniel 12:10

Many people will be made pure—they will make themselves clean. But evil people will continue to be evil. And those wicked people will not understand these things, but the wise people will understand them.

Ecclesiastes 9:3

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

Ecclesiastes 7:29

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

Proverbs 30:12

Some people think they are pure, but they have done nothing to remove the filth of their sin.

Proverbs 15:26

The Lord hates evil thoughts, but he is pleased with kind words.

Titus 2:14

He gave himself for us. He died to free us from all evil. He died to make us pure—people who belong only to him and who always want to do good.

Proverbs 21:9

It is better to live in a small corner on the roof than to share the house with a woman who is always arguing.

Isaiah 26:7

Honesty is the path good people follow. They follow the path that is straight and true. And God, you make that way smooth and easy to follow.

Isaiah 59:8

You don’t know how to live in peace. You don’t do what is right and fair. You are crooked, and anyone who lives like that will never know true peace.