Proverbs 21:8

In 11 translations

BSB

The way of a guilty man is crooked, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.

KJV

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

WEB

The way of the guilty is devious, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.

ASV

The way of him that is laden with guilt is exceeding crooked; But as for the pure, his work is right.

LSV

The way of a man who is vile [is] contrary, || And the pure—his work [is] upright.

YLT

Froward [is] the way of a man who is vile, And the pure — upright [is] his work.

DBY

Very crooked is the way of a guilty man; but as for the pure, his work is upright.

DRC

The perverse way of a man is strange: but as for him that is pure, his work is right.

GNV

The way of some is peruerted and strange: but of the pure man, his worke is right.

JPS

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

LXXE

To the froward God sends froward ways; for his works are pure and right.

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Original-language editions

WLC

הֲפַכְפַּ֬ךְ דֶּ֣רֶךְ אִ֣ישׁ וָזָ֑ר וְ֝זַ֗ךְ יָשָׁ֥ר פָּעֳלֽוֹ׃

LXX-Br

Πρὸς τοὺς σκολιοὺς σκολιὰς ὁδοὺς ἀποστέλλει ὁ Θεὸς, ἁγνὰ γὰρ καὶ ὀρθὰ τὰ ἔργα αὐτοῦ.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• 1 John 3:3And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as Christ is pure.
• Proverbs 2:15whose paths are crooked and whose ways are devious.
• 1 Peter 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. For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of…
• 1 Corinthians 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?
• Daniel 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.
• 1 John 2:29If you know that He is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of Him.
• Psalms 14:2–3The LORD looks down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if any understand, if any seek God. All have turned away, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.
• Ecclesiastes 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.
• Ephesians 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. All of us also lived among them at one time,…
• 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.
• Proverbs 15:26The LORD detests the thoughts of the wicked, but the words of the pure are pleasant to Him.
• Genesis 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. And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth,…
• 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 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.
• Matthew 5:8Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
• Job 15:14–16What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous? If God puts no trust in His holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in His eyes, how much less man, who is vile and corrupt,…

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