Proverbs 14:2

New English Translation

The one who walks in his uprightness fears the Lord, but the one who is perverted in his ways despises him.

Cross References

2 Samuel 12:9

Why have you shown contempt for the word of the Lord by doing evil in my sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and you have taken his wife as your own! You have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.

1 Kings 3:6

Solomon replied, “You demonstrated great loyalty to your servant, my father David, as he served you faithfully, properly, and sincerely. You have maintained this great loyalty to this day by allowing his son to sit on his throne.

2 Kings 17:34

To this very day they observe their earlier practices. They do not worship the Lord; they do not obey the rules, regulations, law, and commandments that the Lord gave the descendants of Jacob, whom he renamed Israel.

Job 1:1

There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And that man was pure and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.

Job 12:4

I am a laughingstock to my friends, I, who called on God and whom he answered – a righteous and blameless man is a laughingstock!

Job 28:28

And he said to mankind, ‘The fear of the Lord – that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.’”

Psalm 112:1

Praise the Lord! How blessed is the one who obeys the Lord, who takes great delight in keeping his commands.

Psalm 25:21

May integrity and godliness protect me, for I rely on you!

Proverbs 11:12

The one who denounces his neighbor lacks wisdom, but the one who has discernment keeps silent.

Proverbs 16:17

The highway of the upright is to turn away from evil; the one who guards his way safeguards his life.

Proverbs 16:6

Through loyal love and truth iniquity is appeased; through fearing the Lord one avoids evil.

Proverbs 19:1

Better is a poor person who walks in his integrity than one who is perverse in his speech and is a fool.

Proverbs 2:15

whose paths are morally crooked, and who are devious in their ways;

Proverbs 28:6

A poor person who walks in his integrity is better than one who is perverse in his ways even though he is rich.

Ecclesiastes 12:13

Having heard everything, I have reached this conclusion: Fear God and keep his commandments, because this is the whole duty of man.

Luke 10:16

“The one who listens to you listens to me, and the one who rejects you rejects me, and the one who rejects me rejects the one who sent me.”

Luke 16:14

The Pharisees (who loved money) heard all this and ridiculed him.

Acts 10:22

They said, “Cornelius the centurion, a righteous and God-fearing man, well spoken of by the whole Jewish nation, was directed by a holy angel to summon you to his house and to hear a message from you.”

Acts 10:35

but in every nation the person who fears him and does what is right is welcomed before him.

Acts 9:31

Then the church throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria experienced peace and thus was strengthened. Living in the fear of the Lord and in the encouragement of the Holy Spirit, the church increased in numbers.