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Proverbs 12:3
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No one can be made secure by wickedness,but the root of the righteous is immovable.
A man shall not be established by wickedness, But the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
No one is established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous will never be moved.
A person will not be established by wickedness, But the root of the righteous will not be moved.
Doing evil brings no safety at all, but a good person has safety and security.
No one can be established through wickedness, but a righteous root cannot be moved.
A man will not be established by wickedness, But the root of the [consistently] righteous will not be moved.
A man shall not be established by wickedness, But the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
A man cannot be established by wickednesse: but the roote of the righteous shall not be mooued.
A man will not be established by wickedness,But the root of the righteous will not be shaken.
A man cannot be established through wickedness, but the righteous cannot be uprooted.
Sin cannot offer security! But if you live right, you will be as secure as a tree with deep roots.
No one is made secure by wickedness, but the roots of the righteous will never be moved.
A man shall not be established by wickedness; but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
Evil people are never safe, but good people remain safe and secure.
A man shall not be established by wickedness; but the root of the righteous shall flourish.
Wickedness does not give security, but righteous people stand firm.
A person will not be established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous will not be moved.
A man shall not be established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous shall not be dislodged.
A man ca not endure in vngodlynesse, but ye rote of ye righteous shal not be moued.
A man shall not be established by wickedness; But the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
A man shall not be established by wickedness; but the root of the righteous shall never be moved.
A man shall not bee established by wickednesse: but the roote of the righteous shall not be mooued.
A man can not endure in vngodlinesse: but the roote of the ryghteous shall not be moued.
A man shall not prosper by wickedness; but the roots of the righteous shall not be taken up.
A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall never be moved.
A man schal not be maad strong by wyckidnesse; and the root of iust men schal not be moued.
Man shall not be established by wickedness; But the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
A man is not established by wickedness, But the root of the righteous cannot be moved.
Wickedness never brings stability, but the godly have deep roots.
A man will not stand by doing what is wrong, but the root of those who are right with God will not be moved.
No one finds security by wickedness, but the root of the righteous will never be moved.
A son of earth, shall not be established, by lawlessness, but, the root of the righteous, shall not be disturbed.
Man shall not be strengthened by wickedness: and the root of the just shall not be moved.
A man is not established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous will never be moved.
A man is not established by wickedness, And the root of the righteous is not moved.
You can't find firm footing in a swamp, but life rooted in God stands firm.
A man will not be established by wickedness, But the root of the righteous will not be moved.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
shall not be established: Proverbs 10:25, Job 5:3-5, Job 15:29, Job 20:5-9, Job 27:16-18
the root: Proverbs 12:12, Psalms 15:5, Psalms 125:1, Psalms 125:2, 1 Samuel 25:33, Ephesians 3:17, Colossians 2:7
Reciprocal: Psalms 13:4 - when Matthew 13:21 - root Luke 8:13 - and these
Cross-References
Seeing that Abraham will certainly become a great and strong nation, and his name will be used by all the nations of the earth as a blessing?
Let peoples be your servants, and nations go down before you: be lord over your brothers, and let your mother's sons go down before you: a curse be on everyone by whom you are cursed, and a blessing on those who give you a blessing.
Your seed will be like the dust of the earth, covering all the land to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south: you and your seed will be a name of blessing to all the families of the earth.
And Laban said, If you will let me say so, do not go away; for I have seen by the signs that the Lord has been good to me because of you.
For before I came you had little, and it has been greatly increased; and the Lord has given you a blessing in everything I have done; but when am I to do something for my family?
And from the time when he made him overseer and gave him control of all his property, the blessing of the Lord was with the Egyptian, because of Joseph; the blessing of the Lord was on all he had, in the house and in the field.
But if you truly give ear to his voice, and do whatever I say, then I will be against those who are against you, fighting those who are fighting you.
He took his sleep stretched out like a lion, and like a she-lion: by whom will his rest be broken? May a blessing be on everyone who gives you blessing, and a curse on everyone by whom you are cursed.
May his name go on for ever, as long as the sun: may men be blessing themselves by him; may all nations be blessing his name.
And the King will make answer and say to them, Truly I say to you, Because you did it to the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
A man shall not be established by wickedness,.... Not any man, though he may be established in his wickedness, so as not to be rooted out of it; yet he cannot be so established by it as not to be removed from a prosperous state and condition into an unhappy and distressed one; he may seem to be in a firm and settled state of prosperity, amidst all his wickedness; be like a green bay tree, spreading itself, and seemingly immovable, when on a sudden it is blown down and rooted up, and is no more: so Babylon will seem to be in a settled state of grandeur, ease, and rest, and say, "I sit a queen, and shall see no sorrow"; when in one day, and in one hour, her destruction shall come upon her, Revelation 18:7;
but the root of the righteous shall not be moved; they are rooted and grounded in the love of God, which is immovable; they are rooted and built up in Christ, and so are as Mount Zion, which can never be removed; the root of the matter, or of grace, is in them, which can never be lost; while others wither away, because they have no root in them, these abide; and though they may be shaken with the persecutions of men, the temptations of Satan, the errors of the wicked, and their own corruptions, yet they afresh take root again downward, and bring forth fruit upward.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 12:3. A man shall not be established by wickedness — Evil is always variable: it has no fixed principle, except the root that is in the human heart; and even that is ever assuming new forms. Nothing is permanent but goodness; and that is unchangeable, because it comes from GOD. The produce of goodness is permanent, because it has God's blessing in it: the fruit of wickedness, or the property procured by wickedness, is transitory, because it has God's curse in it. The righteous has his root in God; and therefore he shall not be moved.