Proverbs 16:4

New English Translation

The Lord works everything for its own ends – even the wicked for the day of disaster.

Cross References

Genesis 1:31

God saw all that he had made – and it was very good! There was evening, and there was morning, the sixth day.

Job 15:23

he wanders about – food for vultures; he knows that the day of darkness is at hand.

Job 21:30

that the evil man is spared from the day of his misfortune, that he is delivered from the day of God’s wrath?

Exodus 9:16

But for this purpose I have caused you to stand: to show you my strength, and so that my name may be declared in all the earth.

Proverbs 16:5

The Lord abhors every arrogant person; rest assured that they will not go unpunished.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

God has made everything fit beautifully in its appropriate time, but he has also placed ignorance in the human heart so that people cannot discover what God has ordained, from the beginning to the end of their lives.

Isaiah 43:21

the people whom I formed for myself, so they might praise me.”

Isaiah 43:7

everyone who belongs to me, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed – yes, whom I made!

Romans 11:36

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

Romans 9:22

But what if God, willing to demonstrate his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the objects of wrath prepared for destruction?

1 Peter 2:8

and a stumbling-stone and a rock to trip over. They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.

2 Peter 2:3

And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation pronounced long ago is not sitting idly by; their destruction is not asleep.

2 Peter 2:9

– if so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from their trials, and to reserve the unrighteous for punishment at the day of judgment,

Revelation 4:11

“You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, since you created all things, and because of your will they existed and were created!”