Proverbs 21:15

New International Version

When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers.

Cross References

Psalm 112:1

Praise the Lord. Blessed are those who fear the Lord, who find great delight in his commands.

Psalm 119:16

I delight in your decrees; I will not neglect your word.

Psalm 119:92

If your law had not been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.

Psalm 40:8

I desire to do your will, my God; your law is within my heart.”

Proverbs 10:29

The way of the Lord is a refuge for the blameless, but it is the ruin of those who do evil.

Proverbs 21:12

The Righteous One takes note of the house of the wicked and brings the wicked to ruin.

Proverbs 21:16

Whoever strays from the path of prudence comes to rest in the company of the dead.

Proverbs 5:20

Why, my son, be intoxicated with another man’s wife? Why embrace the bosom of a wayward woman?

Ecclesiastes 3:12

I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live.

Isaiah 64:5

You come to the help of those who gladly do right, who remember your ways. But when we continued to sin against them, you were angry. How then can we be saved?

Matthew 7:23

Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’

John 4:34

“My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.

Romans 7:22

For in my inner being I delight in God’s law;