Proverbs 21:15

The English Standar Version

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

Cross References

Psalm 112:1

Praise the LORD! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in his commandments!

Psalm 119:16

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

Psalm 119:92

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

Psalm 40:8

I desire to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart."

Proverbs 10:29

The way of the LORD is a stronghold to the blameless, but destruction to evildoers.

Proverbs 21:12

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

Proverbs 21:16

One who wanders from the way of good sense will rest in the assembly of the dead.

Proverbs 5:20

Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?[5]

Ecclesiastes 3:12

I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live;

Isaiah 64:5

You meet him who joyfully works righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Behold, you were angry, and we sinned; in our sins we have been a long time, and shall we be saved?[2]

Matthew 7:23

And then will I declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.'

John 4:34

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

Romans 7:22

For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being,