Proverbs 21:8

New American Bible - revised edition

One’s path may be winding and unfamiliar, but one’s conduct is blameless and right.

Cross References

Genesis 6:12

When God saw how corrupt the earth had become, since all mortals had corrupted their ways on earth,

Proverbs 15:26

The schemes of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord, but gracious words are pure.

Proverbs 2:15

Whose ways are crooked, whose paths are devious;

Proverbs 21:9

It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop than in a mansion with a quarrelsome woman.

Proverbs 30:12

There are some pure in their own eyes, yet not cleansed of their filth.

Ecclesiastes 7:29

But this alone I have found: God made humankind honest, but they have pursued many designs.

Ecclesiastes 9:3

Among all the things that are done under the sun, this is the worst, that there is one lot for all. Hence the hearts of human beings are filled with evil, and madness is in their hearts during life; and afterward—to the dead!

Isaiah 26:7

The way of the just is smooth; the path of the just you make level.

Isaiah 59:8

The way of peace they know not, and there is no justice on their paths; Their roads they have made crooked, no one who walks in them knows peace.

Daniel 12:10

Many shall be refined, purified, and tested, but the wicked shall prove wicked; the wicked shall have no understanding, but those with insight shall.

Matthew 12:33

“Either declare the tree good and its fruit is good, or declare the tree rotten and its fruit is rotten, for a tree is known by its fruit.

Matthew 5:8

Blessed are the clean of heart, for they will see God.

Acts 15:9

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

1 Corinthians 3:3

for you are still of the flesh. While there is jealousy and rivalry among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving in an ordinary human way?

Titus 1:15

To the clean all things are clean, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is clean; in fact, both their minds and their consciences are tainted.

Titus 2:14

who gave himself for us to deliver us from all lawlessness and to cleanse for himself a people as his own, eager to do what is good.

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, deluded, slaves to various desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful ourselves and hating one another.

Titus 3:5

not because of any righteous deeds we had done but because of his mercy, he saved us through the bath of rebirth and renewal by the holy Spirit,

1 John 2:29

If you consider that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who acts in righteousness is begotten by him.

1 John 3:3

Everyone who has this hope based on him makes himself pure, as he is pure. Avoiding Sin.