Proverbs 14:14

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The perverse get what their ways deserve, and the good, what their deeds deserve.

Cross References

Psalm 109:17

He loved to curse; let curses come on him. He did not like blessing; may it be far from him.

Proverbs 12:14

From the fruit of the mouth one is filled with good things, and manual labor has its reward.

Proverbs 12:21

No harm happens to the righteous, but the wicked are filled with trouble.

Proverbs 14:10

The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares its joy.

Proverbs 14:15

The simple believe everything, but the clever consider their steps.

Proverbs 18:20

From the fruit of the mouth one’s stomach is satisfied; the yield of the lips brings satisfaction.

Proverbs 9:12

If you are wise, you are wise for yourself; if you scoff, you alone will bear it.

Jeremiah 17:5

Thus says the Lord: Cursed are those who trust in mere mortals and make mere flesh their strength, whose hearts turn away from the Lord.

Jeremiah 2:19

Your wickedness will punish you, and your faithlessness will convict you. Know and see that it is evil and bitter for you to forsake the Lord your God; the fear of me is not in you, says the Lord God of hosts.

Jeremiah 8:5

Why then has this people turned away in perpetual faithlessness? They have held fast to deceit; they have refused to return.

Ezekiel 22:31

Therefore I have poured out my indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath; I have returned their conduct upon their heads, says the Lord God.

Hosea 4:16

Like a stubborn heifer, Israel is stubborn; can the Lord now feed them like a lamb in a broad pasture?

Zephaniah 1:6

those who have turned back from following the Lord, who have not sought the Lord or inquired of him.

John 4:14

but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.”

2 Corinthians 1:12

Indeed, this is our boast, the testimony of our conscience: we have behaved in the world with holiness and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God—and all the more toward you.

Galatians 6:4

All must test their own work; then that work, rather than their neighbor’s work, will become a cause for pride.

Galatians 6:8

If you sow to your own flesh, you will reap corruption from the flesh, but if you sow to the Spirit, you will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

Hebrews 3:12

Take care, brothers and sisters, that none of you may have an evil, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.