Proverbs 11:23

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What does Proverbs 11:23 mean?

Proverbs 11:23 in the original Hebrew

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Cross references for Proverbs 11:23

• Matthew 5:6

  Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

• Psalms 37:4

  Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

• Romans 2:8-9

  But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;

• Jeremiah 17:16

  As for me, I have not hastened from being a pastor to follow thee: neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was right before thee.

• Psalms 10:17

  Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:

• Psalms 27:4

  One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to enquire in his temple.

• Psalms 119:10

  With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.

• Isaiah 26:9

  With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

• Proverbs 10:28

  The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.

• Psalms 119:5

  O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!

• Hebrews 10:27

  But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.

• Proverbs 11:7

  When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perisheth.

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Context

• Proverbs 11:22

  As a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.

• Proverbs 11:23

  The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.

• Proverbs 11:24

  There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.

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