Proverbs 21:8

New Century Version

Guilty people live dishonest lives, but honest people do right.

Cross References

Genesis 6:12

When God saw that everyone on the earth did only evil,

Proverbs 15:26

The Lord hates evil thoughts but is pleased with kind words.

Proverbs 2:15

What they do is wrong, and their ways are dishonest.

Proverbs 21:9

It is better to live in a corner on the roof than inside the house with a quarreling wife.

Proverbs 30:12

Some people think they are pure, but they are not really free from evil.

Ecclesiastes 7:29

One thing I have learned: God made people good, but they have found all kinds of ways to be bad.”

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This is something wrong that happens here on earth: What happens to one happens to all. So people’s minds are full of evil and foolish thoughts while they live. After that, they join the dead.

Isaiah 26:7

The path of life is level for those who are right with God; Lord, you make the way of life smooth for those people.

Isaiah 59:8

They don’t know how to live in peace, and there is no fairness in their lives. They are dishonest. Anyone who lives as they live will never have peace.

Daniel 12:10

Many people will be made clean, pure, and spotless, but the wicked will continue to be wicked. Those wicked people will not understand these things, but the wise will understand them.

Matthew 12:33

“If you want good fruit, you must make the tree good. If your tree is not good, it will have bad fruit. A tree is known by the kind of fruit it produces.

Matthew 5:8

They are blessed whose thoughts are pure, for they will see God.

Acts 15:9

To God, those people are not different from us. When they believed, he made their hearts pure.

1 Corinthians 3:3

You are still not spiritual, because there is jealousy and quarreling among you, and this shows that you are not spiritual. You are acting like people of the world.

Titus 1:15

To those who are pure, all things are pure, but to those who are full of sin and do not believe, nothing is pure. Both their minds and their consciences have been ruined.

Titus 2:14

He gave himself for us so he might pay the price to free us from all evil and to make us pure people who belong only to him—people who are always wanting to do good deeds.

Titus 3:3

In the past we also were foolish. We did not obey, we were wrong, and we were slaves to many things our bodies wanted and enjoyed. We spent our lives doing evil and being jealous. People hated us, and we hated each other.

Titus 3:5

he saved us because of his mercy. It was not because of good deeds we did to be right with him. He saved us through the washing that made us new people through the Holy Spirit.

1 John 2:29

Since you know that Christ is righteous, you know that all who do right are God’s children.

1 John 3:3

Christ is pure, and all who have this hope in Christ keep themselves pure like Christ.