Proverbs 21:18 Cross References
Proverbs 21:18
18: Sometimes the wicked are punished to save the godly, and the treacherous for the upright.
Proverbs 11:8
- God rescues the godly from danger, but he lets the wicked fall into trouble.
Isaiah 43:3
- For I am the LORD, your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I gave Egypt, Ethiopia, and Seba as a ransom for your freedom.
- Others died that you might live. I traded their lives for yours because you are precious to me. You are honored, and I love you.
Isaiah 53:4
- Yet it was our weaknesses he carried; it was our sorrows that weighed him down. And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God for his own sins!
- But he was wounded and crushed for our sins. He was beaten that we might have peace. He was whipped, and we were healed!
Isaiah 55:8
- "My thoughts are completely different from yours," says the LORD. "And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine.
- For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.
1 Peter 3:18
- Christ also suffered when he died for our sins once for all time. He never sinned, but he died for sinners that he might bring us safely home to God. He suffered physical death, but he was raised to life in the Spirit.