Proverbs 13:21

New English Translation

Calamity pursues sinners, but prosperity rewards the righteous.

Cross References

Genesis 4:7

Is it not true that if you do what is right, you will be fine? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at the door. It desires to dominate you, but you must subdue it.”

Psalm 140:11

A slanderer will not endure on the earth; calamity will hunt down a violent man and strike him down.

Psalm 32:10

An evil person suffers much pain, but the Lord’s faithfulness overwhelms the one who trusts in him.

Psalm 54:5

May those who wait to ambush me be repaid for their evil! As a demonstration of your faithfulness, destroy them!

Proverbs 11:31

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

Proverbs 13:13

The one who despises instruction will pay the penalty, but whoever esteems instruction will be rewarded.

Proverbs 17:13

As for the one who repays evil for good, evil will not leave his house.

Proverbs 24:16

Although a righteous person may fall seven times, he gets up again, but the wicked will be brought down by calamity.

Isaiah 47:11

Disaster will overtake you; you will not know how to charm it away. Destruction will fall on you; you will not be able to appease it. Calamity will strike you suddenly, before you recognize it.

Ezekiel 7:5

“This is what the sovereign Lord says: A disaster – a one-of-a-kind disaster – is coming!

Numbers 32:23

“But if you do not do this, then look, you will have sinned against the Lord. And know that your sin will find you out.

Acts 28:4

When the local people saw the creature hanging from Paul’s hand, they said to one another, “No doubt this man is a murderer! Although he has escaped from the sea, Justice herself has not allowed him to live!”