Proverbs 21:8

Tree of Life Version

The way of the guilty is crooked, but the conduct of the pure is upright.

Cross References

Genesis 6:12

God saw the earth, and behold it was ruined because all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.

Proverbs 15:26

Evil thoughts are an abomination to Adonai, but pleasant words are pure.

Proverbs 2:15

whose paths are crooked and are devious in their ways—

Proverbs 21:9

It is better to live on a corner of a roof than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.

Proverbs 30:12

There is a generation that is pure in its own eyes, and yet is not cleansed from its filth.

Ecclesiastes 7:29

Only this have I discovered: God made mankind upright, but they went seeking after many schemes.”

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This is a misery in everything done under the sun: that the same destiny awaits everyone. Moreover, the hearts of all humans are full of evil, and folly is in their hearts during their lives—after that they die.

Isaiah 26:7

The way of the righteous is straight. Upright One, You make smooth the path of the righteous.

Isaiah 59:8

They do not know the path of peace, and there is no justice in their tracks. They have made their paths crooked. Whoever walks in them will not experience shalom.

Daniel 12:10

Many will be purified, made spotless and refined, but the wicked will act wickedly. None of the wicked will understand, but the wise will understand.

Matthew 12:33

“Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree rotten and its fruit rotten; for the tree is known by its fruit.

Matthew 5:8

“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Acts 15:9

He made no distinction between us and them, purifying their hearts through faith.

1 Corinthians 3:3

for you are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and strife among you, aren’t you worldly and walking in a human way?

Titus 1:15

To the pure all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Both their mind and conscience are defiled.

Titus 2:14

He gave Himself for us so that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and so that He might purify for Himself a chosen people, zealous for good deeds.

Titus 3:3

For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deluded, enslaved to various desires and pleasures, spending our lives in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.

Titus 3:5

not by deeds of righteousness which we had done ourselves, but because of His mercy— He saved us through the mikveh of rebirth and renewing of the Ruach ha-Kodesh,

1 John 2:29

If you know that He is righteous, you also know that everyone who does what is right is born of Him.

1 John 3:3

Everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.