Proverbs 21:21

Modern King James Version

He who follows after righteousness and mercy finds life, righteousness, and honor.

Cross References

Psalm 112:4

To the upright there arises light in the darkness; he is gracious and full of pity and righteousness.

Proverbs 10:16

The labor of the righteous tends to life; the fruit of the wicked tends to sin.

Proverbs 11:19

So righteousness tends to life; but one pursuing evil, it is to his own death.

Proverbs 15:9

The way of the wicked is hateful to Jehovah, but He loves him who pursues righteousness.

Proverbs 22:4

By humility and the fear of Jehovah are riches and honor and life.

Proverbs 3:22

and they shall be life to your soul and grace to your neck;

Isaiah 51:1

Listen to me, pursuers of righteousness; seekers of Jehovah: Look to the rock from which you were cut, and to the hole of the pit from which you were dug.

Hosea 6:3

Then we shall know, if we follow on to know Jehovah. His going out is prepared as the morning; and He shall come to us as the rain, as the latter and former rain to the earth.

Matthew 5:6

Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness! For they shall be filled.

Romans 14:19

So then let us pursue the things of peace, and the things for building up one another.

1 Corinthians 15:58

So that, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not without fruit in the Lord.

Philippians 3:12

Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect, but I am pressing on, if I may lay hold of that for which I also was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

1 Thessalonians 5:21

Prove all things, hold fast to the good.

1 Timothy 6:11

But you, O man of God, flee these things and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, and meekness.

2 Timothy 2:22

But flee youthful lusts, and follow righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Hebrews 12:14

Follow peace with all, and holiness, without which no one shall see the Lord;

1 Peter 1:7

so that the trial of your faith (being much more precious than that of gold that perishes, but being proven through fire) might be found to praise and honor and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ,