Proverbs 12:8

New International Version

A person is praised according to their prudence, and one with a warped mind is despised.

Cross References

2 Corinthians 10:18

For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends.

1 Corinthians 4:5

Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of the heart. At that time each will receive their praise from God.

Acts 12:23

Immediately, because Herod did not give praise to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.

Luke 16:8

“The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the people of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the people of the light.

Daniel 12:2

Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.

Proverbs 5:23

For lack of discipline they will die, led astray by their own great folly.

Proverbs 3:35

The wise inherit honor, but fools get only shame.

Proverbs 1:26

I in turn will laugh when disaster strikes you; I will mock when calamity overtakes you—

Psalm 132:18

I will clothe his enemies with shame, but his head will be adorned with a radiant crown.”

Genesis 41:39

Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has made all this known to you, there is no one so discerning and wise as you.

1 Samuel 25:17

Now think it over and see what you can do, because disaster is hanging over our master and his whole household. He is such a wicked man that no one can talk to him.”

1 Samuel 18:30

The Philistine commanders continued to go out to battle, and as often as they did, David met with more success than the rest of Saul’s officers, and his name became well known.

1 Samuel 16:18

One of the servants answered, “I have seen a son of Jesse of Bethlehem who knows how to play the lyre. He is a brave man and a warrior. He speaks well and is a fine-looking man. And the Lord is with him.”

1 Samuel 13:13

“You have done a foolish thing,” Samuel said. “You have not kept the command the Lord your God gave you; if you had, he would have established your kingdom over Israel for all time.

Ecclesiastes 8:1

Who is like the wise? Who knows the explanation of things? A person’s wisdom brightens their face and changes its hard appearance.

Proverbs 12:7

The wicked are overthrown and are no more, but the house of the righteous stands firm.

Proverbs 12:9

Better to be a nobody and yet have a servant than pretend to be somebody and have no food.

Proverbs 29:27

The righteous detest the dishonest; the wicked detest the upright.

Isaiah 19:14

The Lord has poured into them a spirit of dizziness; they make Egypt stagger in all that she does, as a drunkard staggers around in his vomit.

1 Samuel 2:30

“Therefore the Lord, the God of Israel, declares: ‘I promised that members of your family would minister before me forever.’ But now the Lord declares: ‘Far be it from me! Those who honor me I will honor, but those who despise me will be disdained.