For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.
Parallel translations
- KJV For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.
- BSB For the LORD guards the path of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.
- ESV for the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.
- NKJV For the Lord knows the way of the righteous, But the way of the ungodly shall perish.
- NASB For the Lord knows the way of the righteous, But the way of the wicked will perish.
- NLT For the Lord watches over the path of the godly, but the path of the wicked leads to destruction.
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Cross-references & the web
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- 2 Tim 2:19However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”
- John 10:14I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own;
- Prov 15:9The way of the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but he loves him who follows after righteousness.
- Nah 1:7Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.
- Ps 37:18–24Yahweh knows the days of the perfect. Their inheritance shall be forever.
- John 10:27My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
- Prov 14:12There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.
- Ps 146:9Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.
- Ps 139:1–2For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.
- Matt 7:13“Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it.
- Job 23:10But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come out like gold.
- Ps 142:3When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my route. On the path in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.
- 2 Pet 2:12But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,
- Ps 112:10The wicked will see it, and be grieved. He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away. The desire of the wicked will perish.
- Ps 9:6The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin. The very memory of the cities which you have overthrown has perished.
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