Proverbs 11:11

New American Bible - revised edition

Through the blessing of the upright the city is exalted, but through the mouth of the wicked it is overthrown.

Cross References

Genesis 45:8

So it was not really you but God who had me come here; and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his household, and ruler over the whole land of Egypt.

2 Samuel 20:1

Now a scoundrel named Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjaminite, happened to be there. He sounded the horn and cried out, “We have no share in David, nor any heritage in the son of Jesse. Everyone to your tents, O Israel!”

Job 22:30

He will deliver whoever is innocent; you shall be delivered if your hands are clean.

Proverbs 11:10

When the just prosper, the city rejoices; when the wicked perish, there is jubilation.

Proverbs 11:12

Whoever reviles a neighbor lacks sense, but the intelligent keep silent.

Proverbs 14:34

Justice exalts a nation, but sin is a people’s disgrace.

Proverbs 28:2

If a land is rebellious, its princes will be many; but with an intelligent and wise ruler there is stability.

Proverbs 29:8

Scoffers enflame the city, but the wise calm the fury.

Ecclesiastes 9:15

But in the city lived a man who, though poor, was wise, and he delivered it through his wisdom. Yet no one remembered this poor man.

James 3:6

The tongue is also a fire. It exists among our members as a world of malice, defiling the whole body and setting the entire course of our lives on fire, itself set on fire by Gehenna.