Proverbs 12:8

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

One is commended for good sense, but a perverse mind is despised.

Cross References

Genesis 41:39

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

Psalm 132:18

His enemies I will clothe with disgrace, but on him, his crown will gleam.”

Proverbs 1:26

I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when panic strikes you,

Proverbs 12:7

The wicked are overthrown and are no more, but the house of the righteous will stand.

Proverbs 12:9

Better to be despised and have produce than to be self-important and lack food.

Proverbs 29:27

The unjust are an abomination to the righteous, but the upright are an abomination to the wicked.

Proverbs 3:35

The wise will inherit honor, but stubborn fools, disgrace.

Proverbs 5:23

They die for lack of discipline, and because of their great folly they are lost.

Ecclesiastes 8:1

Who is like the wise man? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? Being wise makes one’s face shine, but arrogance changes one’s face.

Isaiah 19:14

The Lord has poured into them a spirit of confusion; and they have made Egypt stagger in all its doings as a drunkard staggers around in his vomit.

Daniel 12:2

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

Luke 16:8

And his master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly, for the children of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than are the children of light.

Acts 12:23

And immediately, because he had not given the glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.

1 Corinthians 4:5

Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive commendation from God.

2 Corinthians 10:18

For it is not those who commend themselves that are approved but those whom the Lord commends.

1 Samuel 13:13

Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly; you have not kept the commandment of the Lord your God, which he commanded you. The Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever,

1 Samuel 16:18

One of the young men answered, “I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite who is skillful in playing, a man of valor, a warrior, prudent in speech, and a man of good presence, and the Lord is with him.”

1 Samuel 18:30

Then the commanders of the Philistines came out to battle, and as often as they came out, David had more success than all the servants of Saul, so that his fame became very great.

1 Samuel 2:30

Therefore the Lord the God of Israel declares: I promised that your family and the family of your ancestor should go in and out before me forever, but now the Lord declares: Far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be treated with contempt.

1 Samuel 25:17

Now, therefore, know this and consider what you should do, for evil has been decided against our master and against all his house; he is so ill-natured that no one can speak to him.”