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King James Version

Proverbs 13:6

Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.

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.
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.
Easy-to-Read Version
Goodness protects honest people, but evil destroys those who love to sin.
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 Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.

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
And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.
Genesis 13:7
And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.
Genesis 13:10
And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord , like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
Genesis 13:11
Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.
Genesis 13:17
Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.
Genesis 13:18
Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the Lord .
1 Timothy 6:9
But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.

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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