Proverbs 21:8

The guilty take crooked paths, but the innocent act uprightly. It matters because conduct reveals the difference between the wicked and the righteous.

Cross-references · 22

• Ps 14:2–3The LORD looks down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if any understand, if any seek God.
• 1 Jn 2:29If you know that He is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of Him.
• 1 Cor 3:3for you are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and dissension among you, are you not worldly? Are you not walking in the way of man?
• Dan 12:10Many will be purified, made spotless, and refined, but the wicked will continue to act wickedly. None of the wicked will understand, but the wise will understand.
• Prov 2:15whose paths are crooked and whose ways are devious.
• 1 Jn 3:3And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as Christ is pure.
• Eph 2:2–3in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience.
• Prov 30:12There is a generation of those who are pure in their own eyes and yet unwashed of their filth.
• Titus 3:3For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
• Prov 15:26The LORD detests the thoughts of the wicked, but the words of the pure are pleasant to Him.
• Eccl 7:29Only this have I found: I have discovered that God made men upright, but they have sought out many schemes.”
• Titus 3:5He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
• Titus 1:15To the pure, all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Indeed, both their minds and their consciences are defiled.
• Titus 2:14He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.
• Job 15:14–16What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
• Acts 15:9He made no distinction between us and them, for He cleansed their hearts by faith.
• Gen 6:12And God looked upon the earth and saw that it was corrupt; for all living creatures on the earth had corrupted their ways.
• Matt 5:8Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
• Gen 6:5–6Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.
• 1 Pet 1:22–23Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.
• Matt 12:33Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad; for a tree is known by its fruit.
• Eccl 9:3This is an evil in everything that is done under the sun: There is one fate for everyone. Furthermore, the hearts of men are full of evil and madness while they are alive, and afterward they join the dead.

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