Proverbs 21:7

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The violence of the wicked will drag them away, for they refuse to do what is right.

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Whoever pursues righteousness and love finds life, prosperity and honor.

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things God’s wrath comes on those who are disobedient.

But his father will die for his own sin, because he practiced extortion, robbed his brother and did what was wrong among his people.

I will thrust you from my presence, just as I did all your fellow Israelites, the people of Ephraim.’

Blessings crown the head of the righteous, but violence overwhelms the mouth of the wicked.

The Lord is known by his acts of justice; the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands.

The trouble they cause recoils on them; their violence comes down on their own heads.

There are those who turn justice into bitterness and cast righteousness to the ground.