Proverbs 21:15

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

When justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous but dismay to evildoers.

Cross References

Proverbs 10:29

The way of the Lord is a stronghold for the upright but destruction for evildoers.

Matthew 7:23

Then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; go away from me, you who behave lawlessly.’

Isaiah 64:5

You meet those who gladly do right, those who remember you in your ways. But you were angry, and we sinned; because you hid yourself we transgressed.

Ecclesiastes 3:12

I know that there is nothing better for them than to be happy and enjoy themselves as long as they live;

Proverbs 21:12

The Righteous One observes the house of the wicked; he casts the wicked down to ruin.

Proverbs 5:20

Why should you be intoxicated, my son, by another woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?

Psalm 119:16

I will delight in your statutes; I will not forget your word.

Psalm 112:1

Praise the Lord! Happy are those who fear the Lord, who greatly delight in his commandments.

Psalm 40:8

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

Romans 7:22

For I delight in the law of God in my inmost self,

John 4:34

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

Psalm 119:92

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

Proverbs 21:16

Whoever wanders from the way of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead.