Proverbs 21:15

Modern English Version

To do justice is joy to the righteous, but terror to the workers of iniquity.

Cross References

Proverbs 10:29

The way of the Lord is a stronghold to the upright, but destruction to those who do evil.

Matthew 7:23

But then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from Me, you who practice evil.’

Isaiah 64:5

You meet him who rejoices in doing righteousness, those who remember You in Your ways. Behold, You were angry, for we had sinned; in our sins we remained a long time, and shall we be saved?

Ecclesiastes 3:12

I know that there is nothing better for people than to be glad and do good in their life,

Proverbs 21:12

The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked; He hurls the wicked down to ruin.

Proverbs 5:20

Why should you, my son, be intoxicated by an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of a wayward woman?

Psalm 119:16

I will delight myself in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.

Psalm 112:1

Praise the Lord! Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who delights greatly in His commandments.

Psalm 40:8

I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”

Romans 7:22

For I delight in the law of God according to the inner man,

John 4:34

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work.

Psalm 119:92

If Your law had not been my delight, I would then have perished in my affliction.

Proverbs 21:16

A man who strays from the road of understanding will rest in the congregation of the dead.