Proverbs 21:8

Modern English Version

Crooked is the way of a guilty man, but as for the pure, his conduct is right.

Cross References

Proverbs 2:15

whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways;

1 John 3:3

Everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.

1 John 2:29

If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone who does righteousness is born of Him.

Titus 3:5

not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of rebirth and the renewal of the Holy Spirit,

Titus 3:3

We also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various desires and pleasures, living in evil and envy, filled with hatred and hating each other.

Titus 1:15

To the pure, all things are pure. But to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Even their minds and consciences are defiled.

1 Corinthians 3:3

for you are still worldly. For while there is envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not worldly and behaving as mere men?

Acts 15:9

and made no distinction between them and us, and purified their hearts by faith.

Matthew 12:33

“Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree corrupt and its fruit corrupt. 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 be purified and made white and tried. But the wicked shall do wickedly, and none of the wicked shall understand, but the wise shall understand.

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that the same fate comes to all people. Moreover, the hearts of the children of man are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live; after that they go to the place of the dead.

Ecclesiastes 7:29

Observe, this thing alone I have discovered, that God made people upright, but they have gone after many schemes.”

Proverbs 30:12

There is a generation that is pure in its own eyes, and yet is not washed from its filthiness.

Proverbs 15:26

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

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, that He might redeem us from all lawlessness and purify for Himself a special people, zealous of 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 way of the righteous is smooth; O Upright One, make the path of the righteous level.

Isaiah 59:8

The way of peace they do not know, and there is no justice in their ways; they have made their paths crooked; whoever walks in them does not know peace.