Proverbs 2:22

New International Reader's Version

But sinners will be cut off from the land. Those who aren’t faithful will be torn away from it.

Cross References

1 Kings 14:14

“I will choose for myself a king over Israel. He will destroy the family of Jeroboam. This day your son will die. Even now this is beginning to happen.

1 Chronicles 10:13

Saul died because he wasn’t faithful to the Lord. He didn’t obey the word of the Lord. He even asked for advice from a person who gets messages from people who have died.

Job 21:30

They’ll tell you that sinful people are spared from the day of trouble. They’ll say that those people are saved from the day when God will judge.

Psalm 104:35

But may sinners be gone from the earth. May evil people disappear. I will praise the Lord. Praise the Lord.

Psalm 145:20

The Lord watches over all those who love him. But he will destroy all sinful people.

Psalm 37:20

But sinful people will die. The Lord’s enemies may be like flowers in the field. But they will be swallowed up. They will disappear like smoke.

Psalm 37:22

The Lord will give the land to those he blesses. But he will destroy those he curses.

Psalm 37:28

The Lord loves those who are honest. He will not desert those who are faithful to him. Those who do wrong will be completely destroyed. The children of sinners will die.

Psalm 52:5

So God will destroy you forever. He will grab you and pluck you from your tent. He will remove you from this life.

Psalm 52:7

“Just look at this fellow! He didn’t depend on God for his safety. He put his trust in all his wealth. He grew strong by destroying others!”

Proverbs 10:30

Those who do right will never be removed from the land. But those who do wrong will not remain in it.

Proverbs 11:3

Those who do what is right are guided by their honest lives. But those who aren’t faithful are destroyed by their lies.

Deuteronomy 29:20

The Lord will never be willing to forgive those people. His great anger will blaze out against them. All the curses I’ve written down in this book will fall on them. And the Lord will erase any mention of them from the earth.

Deuteronomy 29:28

The Lord’s anger blazed out against his people. So he pulled them up out of their land. He threw them into another land. And that’s where they are now.”

Deuteronomy 7:22

The Lord your God will drive out those nations to make room for you. But he will do it little by little. You won’t be allowed to get rid of them all at once. If you did, wild animals would multiply all around you.