Proverbs 11:23

Young's Literal Translation 1898

The desire of the righteous [is] only good, The hope of the wicked [is] transgression.

Cross References

Psalm 10:17

The desire of the humble Thou hast heard, O Jehovah. Thou preparest their heart; Thou causest Thine ear to attend,

Psalm 119:10

With all my heart I have sought Thee, Let me not err from Thy commands.

Psalm 119:5

O that my ways were prepared to keep Thy statutes,

Psalm 27:4

One [thing] I asked of Jehovah — it I seek. My dwelling in the house of Jehovah, All the days of my life, To look on the pleasantness of Jehovah, And to inquire in His temple.

Psalm 37:4

And delight thyself on Jehovah, And He giveth to thee the petitions of thy heart.

Proverbs 10:28

The hope of the righteous [is] joyful, And the expectation of the wicked perisheth.

Proverbs 11:24

There is who is scattering, and yet is increased, And who is keeping back from uprightness, only to want.

Proverbs 11:7

In the death of a wicked man, hope perisheth, And the expectation of the iniquitous hath been lost.

Proverbs 12:5

The thoughts of the righteous [are] justice, The counsels of the wicked — deceit.

Proverbs 13:2

From the fruit of the mouth a man eateth good, And the soul of the treacherous — violence.

Isaiah 26:9

[With] my soul I desired Thee in the night, Also, [with] my spirit within me I seek Thee earnestly, For when Thy judgments [are] on the earth, The inhabitants of the world have learned righteousness.

Jeremiah 17:16

And I hastened not from feeding after Thee, And the desperate day I have not desired, Thou — Thou hast known, The produce of my lips, before Thy face it hath been,

Matthew 5:6

‘Happy those hungering and thirsting for righteousness — because they shall be filled.

Hebrews 10:27

but a certain fearful looking for of judgment, and fiery zeal, about to devour the opposers;