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 14:2–3Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God.
• 1 Jn 2:29If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.
• 1 Cor 3:3for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men?
• Dan 12:10Many shall purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand; but those who are wise shall understand.
• Prov 2:15who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths:
• 1 Jn 3:3Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.
• Eph 2:2–3in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;
• Prov 30:12There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.
• Titus 3:3For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
• Prov 15:26Yahweh detests the thoughts of the wicked, but the thoughts of the pure are pleasing.
• Eccl 7:29Behold, I have only found this: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes.”
• Titus 3:5not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,
• Titus 1:15To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.
• Titus 2:14who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
• Job 15:14–16What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
• Acts 15:9He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.
• Gen 6:12God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.
• Matt 5:8Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
• Gen 6:5–6Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.
• 1 Pet 1:22–23Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:
• Matt 12:33“Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.
• Eccl 9:3This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

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