Proverbs 13:21

New American Bible - revised edition

Misfortune pursues sinners, but the just shall be recompensed with good.

Cross References

Genesis 4:7

If you act rightly, you will be accepted; but if not, sin lies in wait at the door: its urge is for you, yet you can rule over it.

Psalm 140:11

Drop burning coals upon them; cast them into the watery pit never more to rise.

Psalm 32:10

Many are the sorrows of the wicked one, but mercy surrounds the one who trusts in the Lord.

Psalm 54:5

Strangers have risen against me; the ruthless seek my life; they do not keep God before them. Selah

Proverbs 11:31

If the just are recompensed on the earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner!

Proverbs 13:13

Whoever despises the word must pay for it, but whoever reveres the command will be rewarded.

Proverbs 17:13

If you return evil for good, evil will not depart from your house.

Proverbs 24:16

Though the just fall seven times, they rise again, but the wicked stumble from only one mishap.

Isaiah 47:11

But upon you shall come an evil you will not be able to charm away; Upon you shall fall a disaster you cannot ward off. Upon you shall suddenly come a ruin you cannot imagine.

Ezekiel 7:5

Thus says the Lord God: Evil upon evil! See it coming!

Numbers 32:23

But if you do not do this, you will have sinned against the Lord, and you can be sure that the consequences of your sin will overtake you.

Acts 28:4

When the natives saw the snake hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “This man must certainly be a murderer; though he escaped the sea, Justice has not let him remain alive.”