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Proverbs 21:8
8Guilty people are always going the wrong way. Good people keep on the right way.
Proverbs 21:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.
- New International Version (NIV)The way of the guilty is devious, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.
- English Standard Version (ESV)The way of the guilty is crooked, but the conduct of the pure is upright.
- New King James Version (NKJV)The way of a guilty man is perverse; But as for the pure, his work is right.
Context of Proverbs 21:8
6If you deceive people to become rich, it will soon all disappear. It will lead you to an early death. 7When wicked people do violent things, it destroys them. They refuse to do what is right. Guilty people are always going the wrong way. Good people keep on the right way. 9It is better to live on the roof of your house than to live with a wife who always argues. 10Evil things are the food that wicked people eat to live. They are not kind to anyone, even their friends.
Read all of Proverbs 21Proverbs 21:8 word by word
הֲפַכְפַּ֬ךְ דֶּ֣רֶךְ אִ֣ישׁ וָזָ֑ר וְ֝זַ֗ךְ יָשָׁ֥ר פָּעֳלֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Proverbs 21:8
- Genesis 6:5The Lord saw that men and women on the earth had become very bad. They thought only of evil things all the time.
- Job 15:14No one who is human can be truly pure and righteous.
- Psalms 14:2The Lord is looking down from heaven. He looks at the people of the world, to see if there are any wise people among them. He looks to see if anyone wants to know God.
- Ecclesiastes 7:29I did learn this: God made people to do what is right. But people have chosen their own way to do things.
- Ecclesiastes 9:3Finally, the same thing happens to everyone on the earth. That seems to be a terrible thing. People choose to do evil things. While they are alive, they choose to live like fools. And after that, they die.
- 1 Corinthians 3:3You still do what your human nature wants to do. You are jealous of each other, and you quarrel with each other. Yes! This shows that you do what your human nature wants to do. You live like people who do not know God.
- Ephesians 2:2You lived in a bad way, like the people who belong to this world. You were obeying Satan, who rules the powerful spirits in the air. Those spirits are working now in everyone who refuses to obey God.
- Proverbs 15:26The Lord hates the thoughts of wicked people. But kind words please him.
- Proverbs 30:12There are some people who think that they are perfect. But they are still dirty inside.
- Daniel 12:10The time of trouble will cause many people to become clean and pure. But wicked people will continue to do evil things. No wicked people will understand what God is doing. But wise people will understand.
- Matthew 5:8Happy are the people who have only good thoughts. They will come near to God and see him.
- Matthew 12:33Then Jesus said, ‘To have good fruit you must have a good tree. If you have a bad tree, then you will get bad fruit from it. You can know all about a tree by the kind of fruit that it makes.
- Acts 15:9He made no difference between them and us. When they believed in Jesus, he saved them. He made them clean inside.
- 1 Peter 1:22You have obeyed God's true message. As a result, you have become clean inside, and now you can really love other believers. So continue to love each other very well, with honest thoughts.
- 1 John 2:29You know that Christ only does what is right. So you should know this: Everyone who continues to do what is right has become a child of God.
- 1 John 3:3Christ is completely good. So all of us who hope to see him then must keep ourselves clean from sin.
Commentaries on Proverbs 21:8
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8Or, “Perverse is the way of a sin burdened man.”Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 8Verse 8 The way of mankind by nature is froward and strange.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 8The path of foolishness leads to death, while the road of wisdom leads to life.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 88. of man--any one; his way is opposed to truth, and also estranged from it. The pure proves himself such by his right conduct.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 21
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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