Proverbs 16:4

New International Version

The Lord works out everything to its proper end— even the wicked for a day of disaster.

Cross References

2 Peter 2:9

if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.

Romans 9:22

What if God, although choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath—prepared for destruction?

Isaiah 43:21

the people I formed for myself that they may proclaim my praise.

Isaiah 43:7

everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.”

1 Peter 2:8

and, “A stone that causes people to stumble and a rock that makes them fall.” They stumble because they disobey the message—which is also what they were destined for.

2 Peter 2:3

In their greed these teachers will exploit you with fabricated stories. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.

Job 21:30

that the wicked are spared from the day of calamity, that they are delivered from the day of wrath?

Romans 11:36

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

Revelation 4:11

“You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being.”

Genesis 1:31

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

Exodus 9:16

But I have raised you up for this very purpose, that I might show you my power and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.

Proverbs 16:5

The Lord detests all the proud of heart. Be sure of this: They will not go unpunished.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

Job 15:23

He wanders about for food like a vulture; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.