Proverbs 21:7

Proverbs 21:7 in other translations

What does Proverbs 21:7 mean?

Proverbs 21:7 in the original Hebrew

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Cross references for Proverbs 21:7

• Proverbs 21:21

  He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, righteousness, and honour.

• Ephesians 5:6

  Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.

• Micah 3:9-12

  Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity. They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, Is not the Lord among us? none evil can come upon us. Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

• Zechariah 5:3-4

  Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it. I will bring it forth, saith the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.

• Proverbs 22:22-23

  Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate: For the Lord will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.

• Psalms 7:16

  His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.

• Ezekiel 22:13-14

  Behold, therefore I have smitten mine hand at thy dishonest gain which thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath been in the midst of thee. Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee? I the Lord have spoken it, and will do it.

• Isaiah 1:23-24

  Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them. Therefore saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:

• Jeremiah 7:15

  And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.

• Proverbs 1:18-19

  And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives. So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

• Ezekiel 18:18

  As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did that which is not good among his people, lo, even he shall die in his iniquity.

• Psalms 9:16

  The Lord is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.

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Context

• Proverbs 21:6

  The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.

• Proverbs 21:7

  The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.

• Proverbs 21:8

  The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.

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