Proverbs 2:22

New English Translation

but the wicked will be removed from the land, and the treacherous will be torn away from it.

Cross References

1 Kings 14:14

The Lord will raise up a king over Israel who will cut off Jeroboam’s dynasty. It is ready to happen!

1 Chronicles 10:13

So Saul died because he was unfaithful to the Lord and did not obey the Lord’s instructions; he even tried to conjure up underworld spirits.

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?

Psalm 104:35

May sinners disappear from the earth, and the wicked vanish! Praise the Lord, O my soul! Praise the Lord!

Psalm 145:20

The Lord protects those who love him, but he destroys all the wicked.

Psalm 37:20

But evil men will die; the Lord’s enemies will be incinerated – they will go up in smoke.

Psalm 37:22

Surely those favored by the Lord will possess the land, but those rejected by him will be wiped out.

Psalm 37:28

For the Lord promotes justice, and never abandons his faithful followers. They are permanently secure, but the children of evil men are wiped out.

Psalm 52:5

Yet God will make you a permanent heap of ruins. He will scoop you up and remove you from your home; he will uproot you from the land of the living. (Selah)

Psalm 52:7

“Look, here is the man who would not make God his protector! He trusted in his great wealth and was confident about his plans to destroy others.”

Proverbs 10:30

The righteous will never be moved, but the wicked will not inhabit the land.

Proverbs 11:3

The integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the unfaithful destroys them.

Deuteronomy 29:20

The Lord will be unwilling to forgive him, and his intense anger will rage against that man; all the curses written in this scroll will fall upon him and the Lord will obliterate his name from memory.

Deuteronomy 29:28

So the Lord has uprooted them from their land in anger, wrath, and great rage and has deported them to another land, as is clear today.”

Deuteronomy 7:22

He, the God who leads you, will expel the nations little by little. You will not be allowed to destroy them all at once lest the wild animals overrun you.