Proverbs 16:4

New American Bible - revised edition

The Lord has made everything for a purpose, even the wicked for the evil day.

Cross References

Genesis 1:31

God looked at everything he had made, and found it very good. Evening came, and morning followed—the sixth day.

Job 15:23

A wanderer, food for vultures, he knows destruction is imminent.

Job 21:30

On the day of calamity the evil man is spared, on the day that wrath is released.

Exodus 9:16

But this is why I have let you survive: to show you my power and to make my name resound throughout the earth!

Proverbs 16:5

Every proud heart is an abomination to the Lord; be assured that none will go unpunished.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

God has made everything appropriate to its time, but has put the timeless into their hearts so they cannot find out, from beginning to end, the work which God has done.

Isaiah 43:21

The people whom I formed for myself, that they might recount my praise.

Isaiah 43:7

All who are called by my name I created for my glory; I formed them, made them.

Romans 11:36

For from him and through him and for him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.

Romans 9:22

What if God, wishing to show his wrath and make known his power, has endured with much patience the vessels of wrath made for destruction?

1 Peter 2:8

and “A stone that will make people stumble, and a rock that will make them fall.” They stumble by disobeying the word, as is their destiny.

2 Peter 2:3

In their greed they will exploit you with fabrications, but from of old their condemnation has not been idle and their destruction does not sleep. Lessons from the Past.

2 Peter 2:9

then the Lord knows how to rescue the devout from trial and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,

Revelation 4:11

“Worthy are you, Lord our God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things; because of your will they came to be and were created.”