Proverbs 21:8 Cross References
Proverbs 21:8
8: The guilty walk a crooked path; the innocent travel a straight road.
Proverbs 2:15
- What they do is crooked, and their ways are wrong.
Acts 15:9
- He made no distinction between us and them, for he also cleansed their hearts through faith.
Ecclesiastes 7:29
- I discovered that God created people to be upright, but they have each turned to follow their own downward path."
1 Corinthians 3:3
- for you are still controlled by your own sinful desires. You are jealous of one another and quarrel with each other. Doesn't that prove you are controlled by your own desires? You are acting like people who don't belong to the Lord.
Genesis 6:5
- Now the LORD observed the extent of the people's wickedness, and he saw that all their thoughts were consistently and totally evil.
- So the LORD was sorry he had ever made them. It broke his heart.
Job 15:14
- Can a mortal be pure? Can a human be just?
- Why, God doesn't even trust the angels! Even the heavens cannot be absolutely pure in his sight.
- How much less pure is a corrupt and sinful person with a thirst for wickedness!
Titus 3:3
- Once we, too, were foolish and disobedient. We were misled by others and became slaves to many wicked desires and evil pleasures. Our lives were full of evil and envy. We hated others, and they hated us.
1 John 2:29
- Since we know that God is always right, we also know that all who do what is right are his children.
Ecclesiastes 9:3
- It seems so tragic that one fate comes to all. That is why people are not more careful to be good. Instead, they choose their own mad course, for they have no hope. There is nothing ahead but death anyway.
Daniel 12:10
- Many will be purified, cleansed, and refined by these trials. But the wicked will continue in their wickedness, and none of them will understand. Only those who are wise will know what it means.
Titus 3:5
- He saved us, not because of the good things we did, but because of his mercy. He washed away our sins and gave us a new life through the Holy Spirit.
Ephesians 2:2
- You used to live just like the rest of the world, full of sin, obeying Satan, the mighty prince of the power of the air. He is the spirit at work in the hearts of those who refuse to obey God.
- All of us used to live that way, following the passions and desires of our evil nature. We were born with an evil nature, and we were under God's anger just like everyone else.
Titus 1:15
- Everything is pure to those whose hearts are pure. But nothing is pure to those who are corrupt and unbelieving, because their minds and consciences are defiled.
Proverbs 15:26
- The LORD despises the thoughts of the wicked, but he delights in pure words.
1 John 3:3
- And all who believe this will keep themselves pure, just as Christ is pure.
1 Peter 1:22
- Now you can have sincere love for each other as brothers and sisters because you were cleansed from your sins when you accepted the truth of the Good News. So see to it that you really do love each other intensely with all your hearts.
- For you have been born again. Your new life did not come from your earthly parents because the life they gave you will end in death. But this new life will last forever because it comes from the eternal, living word of God.
Matthew 12:33
- "A tree is identified by its fruit. Make a tree good, and its fruit will be good. Make a tree bad, and its fruit will be bad.
Proverbs 30:12
- They feel pure, but they are filthy and unwashed.
Matthew 5:8
- God blesses those whose hearts are pure, for they will see God.
Psalms 14:2
- The LORD looks down from heaven on the entire human race; he looks to see if there is even one with real understanding, one who seeks for God.
- But no, all have turned away from God; all have become corrupt. No one does good, not even one!
Titus 2:14
- He gave his life to free us from every kind of sin, to cleanse us, and to make us his very own people, totally committed to doing what is right.
Genesis 6:12
- God observed all this corruption in the world, and he saw violence and depravity everywhere.