Proverbs 24:20

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

for the evil have no future; the lamp of the wicked will go out.

Cross References

Job 15:31

Let them not trust in emptiness, deceiving themselves, for emptiness will be their recompense.

Job 21:17

“How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? How often does calamity come upon them? How often does God distribute pains in his anger?

Psalm 11:6

On the wicked he will rain coals of fire and sulfur; a scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.

Psalm 37:2

for they will soon fade like the grass and wither like the green herb.

Psalm 9:17

The wicked shall depart to Sheol, all the nations that forget God.

Proverbs 13:9

The light of the righteous rejoices, but the lamp of the wicked goes out.

Proverbs 17:20

The crooked of mind do not prosper, and the perverse of tongue fall into calamity.

Proverbs 20:20

If you curse father or mother, your lamp will go out in utter darkness.

Proverbs 21:4

Haughty eyes and a proud heart— the lamp of the wicked—are sin.

Proverbs 23:18

Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

Isaiah 3:11

Woe to the guilty! How unfortunate they are, for what their hands have done shall be done to them.

Matthew 25:8

The foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’

Matthew 8:12

while the heirs of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

Jude 1:13

wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the deepest darkness has been reserved forever.