Proverbs 13:21

New International Version

Trouble pursues the sinner, but the righteous are rewarded with good things.

Cross References

Genesis 4:7

If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.”

Psalm 140:11

May slanderers not be established in the land; may disaster hunt down the violent.

Psalm 32:10

Many are the woes of the wicked, but the Lord’s unfailing love surrounds the one who trusts in him.

Psalm 54:5

Let evil recoil on those who slander me; in your faithfulness destroy them.

Proverbs 11:31

If the righteous receive their due on earth, how much more the ungodly and the sinner!

Proverbs 13:13

Whoever scorns instruction will pay for it, but whoever respects a command is rewarded.

Proverbs 17:13

Evil will never leave the house of one who pays back evil for good.

Proverbs 24:16

for though the righteous fall seven times, they rise again, but the wicked stumble when calamity strikes.

Isaiah 47:11

Disaster will come upon you, and you will not know how to conjure it away. A calamity will fall upon you that you cannot ward off with a ransom; a catastrophe you cannot foresee will suddenly come upon you.

Ezekiel 7:5

“This is what the Sovereign Lord says: “ ‘Disaster! Unheard-of disaster! See, it comes!

Numbers 32:23

“But if you fail to do this, you will be sinning against the Lord; and you may be sure that your sin will find you out.

Acts 28:4

When the islanders saw the snake hanging from his hand, they said to each other, “This man must be a murderer; for though he escaped from the sea, the goddess Justice has not allowed him to live.”