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Proverbs 13:6

Goodness protects honest people, but evil destroys those who love to sin.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Righteousness;   Sin;   Wicked (People);   The Topic Concordance - Righteousness;   Sin;   Uprightness;   Wickedness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Righteousness;   Uprightness;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Righteousness guards people of integrity,but wickedness undermines the sinner.
Hebrew Names Version
Righteousness guards the way of integrity, But wickedness overthrows the sinner.
King James Version
Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
English Standard Version
Righteousness guards him whose way is blameless, but sin overthrows the wicked.
New American Standard Bible
Righteousness guards the one whose way is blameless, But wickedness brings the sinner to ruin.
New Century Version
Doing what is right protects the honest person, but doing evil ruins the sinner.
New English Translation
Righteousness guards the one who lives with integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.
Amplified Bible
Righteousness (being in right standing with God) guards the one whose way is blameless, But wickedness undermines and overthrows the sinner.
World English Bible
Righteousness guards the way of integrity, But wickedness overthrows the sinner.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Righteousnesse preserueth the vpright of life: but wickednes ouerthroweth the sinner.
Legacy Standard Bible
Righteousness guards the one whose way is blameless,But wickedness subverts the sinner.
Berean Standard Bible
Righteousness guards the man of integrity, but wickedness undermines the sinner.
Contemporary English Version
Live right, and you are safe! But sin will destroy you.
Complete Jewish Bible
Righteousness protects him whose way is honest, but wickedness brings down the sinner.
Darby Translation
Righteousness preserveth him that is perfect in the way; but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
George Lamsa Translation
Righteousness keeps him that is upright in his way; but wickedness overthrows the sinner.
Good News Translation
Righteousness protects the innocent; wickedness is the downfall of sinners.
Lexham English Bible
Righteousness will guard the upright of way, but wickedness will overthrow sin.
Literal Translation
Righteousness keeps the upright one in the way, but wickedness subverts a sin-offering.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Righteousnesse kepeth the innocet in the waye, but vngodlynesse shal ouerthrowe the synner.
American Standard Version
Righteousness guardeth him that is upright in the way; But wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
Bible in Basic English
Righteousness keeps safe him whose way is without error, but evil-doers are overturned by sin.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Righteousness guardeth him that is upright in the way; but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
King James Version (1611)
Righteousnesse keepeth him that is vpright in the way: but wickednesse ouerthroweth the sinner.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Ryghteousnesse kepeth the innocent in the way: but vngodlinesse doth ouerthrowe the sinner.
English Revised Version
Righteousness guardeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Riytfulnesse kepith the weie of an innocent man; but wickidnesse disseyueth a synnere.
Update Bible Version
Righteousness guards him that is upright in the way; But wickedness overthrows the sinner.
Webster's Bible Translation
Righteousness keepeth [him that is] upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
New King James Version
Righteousness guards him whose way is blameless, But wickedness overthrows the sinner.
New Living Translation
Godliness guards the path of the blameless, but the evil are misled by sin.
New Life Bible
What is right and good watches over the one whose way is without blame, but sin destroys the sinful.
New Revised Standard
Righteousness guards one whose way is upright, but sin overthrows the wicked.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Righteousness, guardeth the man of blameless way, but, lawlessness, overthroweth the sinner.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Justice keepeth the way of the innocent: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
Revised Standard Version
Righteousness guards him whose way is upright, but sin overthrows the wicked.
Young's Literal Translation
Righteousness keepeth him who is perfect in the way, And wickedness overthroweth a sin offering.
THE MESSAGE
A God-loyal life keeps you on track; sin dumps the wicked in the ditch.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Righteousness guards the one whose way is blameless, But wickedness subverts the sinner.

Contextual Overview

6 Goodness protects honest people, but evil destroys those who love to sin.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Righteousness: Proverbs 11:3, Proverbs 11:5, Proverbs 11:6, Psalms 15:2, Psalms 25:21, Psalms 26:1

wickedness: Proverbs 5:22, Proverbs 21:12, 2 Chronicles 28:23, Psalms 140:11

the sinner: Heb. sin

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 1:52 - wickedness 1 Kings 13:34 - to cut it off Job 2:3 - an upright

Cross-References

Genesis 13:6
Abram and Lot had so many animals that the land could not support both of them together.
Genesis 13:7
(The Canaanites and the Perizzites were also living in this land at the same time.) The shepherds of Abram and Lot began to argue.
Genesis 13:10
Lot looked and saw the whole Jordan Valley. He saw that there was much water there. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. At that time the Jordan Valley all the way to Zoar was like the Lord 's Garden. This was good land, like the land of Egypt.)
Genesis 13:11
So Lot chose to live in the Jordan Valley. The two men separated, and Lot began traveling east.
Genesis 13:17
So go. Walk through your land. I now give it to you."
Genesis 13:18
So Abram moved his tents. He went to live near the big trees of Mamre. This was near the city of Hebron. There he built an altar to honor the Lord .
1 Timothy 6:9
People who want to be rich bring temptations to themselves. They are caught in a trap. They begin to want many foolish things that will hurt them. These things ruin and destroy people.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Righteousness keepeth [him that is] upright in the way,.... Men of uprightness and integrity, whose hearts are sincere in the ways of God; the principle of grace and righteousness in them keeps them in those ways, and will not suffer them to turn aside into crooked paths; the word of righteousness, the doctrine of the Gospel, is a means of preserving them from sin, and of keeping them in the right way; particularly the doctrine of Christ's righteousness, and justification by it, is a great antidote against sin, and a powerful motive and incentive to the performance of good works, and all the duties of religion: it engages men to observe every command of Christ, to walk in all his ways; and is a great preservative from false doctrine and antichristian worship;

but wickedness overthroweth the sinner; it is the cause of his utter overthrow, of his being punished with everlasting destruction. It is, in the Hebrew text, "sin" b itself; the sinner is so called, because he is perfectly wicked, as Jarchi observes; he is nothing but sin, a mere mass of sin and corruption. Aben Ezra renders it, "the man of sin"; and it may be well applied to him, who is emphatically called so, and is likewise the son of perdition; who, for his wickedness, will be overthrown and destroyed at the coming of Christ, and with the brightness of it, 2 Thessalonians 2:3.

b חטאת "peccatum"; Montanus, Vatablus, Cocceius, Michaelis; "lapsationem", Schultens.


 
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