the Week of Proper 22 / Ordinary 27
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Proverbs 21:8
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The way of a guilty man is perverse,But as for the pure, his work is upright.
The way of a guilty man is crooked, But as for the pure, his conduct is upright.
The way of the vngodly is frowarde and straunge: but of the pure man his worke is right.
Very crooked is the way of a guilty man; but as for the pure, his work is upright.
The way of a guilty man is perverse; [fn] But as for the pure, his work is right.
The way of a guilty man is perverted; but the pure, his way is upright.
Criminals cause trouble wherever they go, but good people are honest and fair.
The way of the guilty is devious, But the conduct of the innocent is upright.
The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure; his worke is right.
The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.
The wayes of the frowarde are straunge, but ye workes of him yt is cleane, are right.
Mixed motives twist life into tangles; pure motives take you straight down the road.
The way of the guilty is [exceedingly] crooked, But as for the pure, his conduct is upright.
The way of him that is laden with guilt is exceeding crooked; But as for the pure, his work is right.
Twisted is the way of him who is full of crime; but as for him whose heart is clean, his work is upright.
The way of him that is laden with guilt is exceeding crooked; But as for the pure, his work is right.
The way of man [is] froward and strange: but [as for] the pure, his work [is] right.
The way of the guilty person is devious, but as for the pure, his way is upright.
All crooks are liars, but anyone who is innocent will do right.
A criminal's conduct is crooked, but the work of the pure is right.
The way of some is peruerted and strange: but of the pure man, his worke is right.
He who perverts his own way acts strangely; but he who is pure, his works are right.
The way of the guilty is devious, But the conduct of the innocent is upright.
The way of man is froward and strange; but as for the pure, his work is right.
The way of a guilty man is sinful, but the actions of the pure man are right.
To the froward God sends froward ways; for his works are pure and right.
The way of him that is laden with guilt is exceeding crooked: but as for the pure, his work is right.
The way of a guilty man is crooked, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.
The way of the guilty is crooked, but the conduct of the pure is right.
Crooked is the way of a guilty man, but, as for the pure, straight is his dealing.
The perverse way of a man is strange: but as for him that is pure, his work is right.
Crooked is the way of a man and a foreigner, but the pure is upright in his conduct.
The way of the guilty is crooked, but the conduct of the pure is upright.
The way of a guilty person is crooked, But as for the pure, his conduct is upright.
Guilty people live dishonest lives, but honest people do right.
Guilty people walk a crooked path; the innocent do what is right.
A guilty man's conduct is crooked, but the behavior of the innocent is upright.
The weiward weie of a man is alien fro God; but the werk of hym that is cleene, is riytful.
The way of the guilty is crooked, but the conduct of the pure is right.
Froward [is] the way of a man who is vile, And the pure -- upright [is] his work.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
way: Genesis 6:5, Genesis 6:6, Genesis 6:12, Job 15:14-16, Psalms 14:2, Psalms 14:3, Ecclesiastes 7:29, Ecclesiastes 9:3, 1 Corinthians 3:3, Ephesians 2:2, Ephesians 2:3, Titus 3:3
but: Proverbs 15:26, Proverbs 30:12, Daniel 12:10, Matthew 5:8, Matthew 12:33, Acts 15:9, Titus 1:15, Titus 2:14, Titus 3:5, 1 Peter 1:22, 1 Peter 1:23, 1 John 2:29, 1 John 3:3
Reciprocal: Proverbs 6:14 - Frowardness Proverbs 15:9 - The way Proverbs 20:11 - General Isaiah 55:8 - General
Cross-References
But Lot insisted, so at last they went home with him. Lot prepared a feast for them, complete with fresh bread made without yeast, and they ate.
So Isaac prepared a covenant feast to celebrate the treaty, and they ate and drank together.
So Laban invited everyone in the neighborhood and prepared a wedding feast.
Pharaoh's birthday came three days later, and he prepared a banquet for all his officials and staff. He summoned his chief cup-bearer and chief baker to join the other officials.
As his father was making final arrangements for the marriage, Samson threw a party at Timnah, as was the custom for elite young men.
Samson said to them, "Let me tell you a riddle. If you solve my riddle during these seven days of the celebration, I will give you thirty fine linen robes and thirty sets of festive clothing.
But Hannah did not go. She told her husband, "Wait until the boy is weaned. Then I will take him to the Tabernacle and leave him there with the Lord permanently."
When Abigail arrived home, she found that Nabal was throwing a big party and was celebrating like a king. He was very drunk, so she didn't tell him anything about her meeting with David until dawn the next day.
When Abner and twenty of his men came to Hebron, David entertained them with a great feast.
Then Solomon woke up and realized it had been a dream. He returned to Jerusalem and stood before the Ark of the Lord's Covenant, where he sacrificed burnt offerings and peace offerings. Then he invited all his officials to a great banquet.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The way of man [is] froward and strange,.... Not the way of any and every man; not the way of righteous and good men, of believers in Christ; who know him, the way, and walk in him and after him, and being led by him; who have his spirit to be their guide, and do walk in his ways, and find pleasure in them; the way of such is not froward or perverse, but upright and even, and is not strange, for the Lord knows and approves of it: but the way of wicked and impure men, as may be learned from the opposition in the next clause; the way of unregenerate men, who are gone out of the good way, and turned to their own way, which is according to the course of the world, and after the prince of it, and according to the flesh, and dictates of corrupt nature, which is the common and broad road that leads to destruction. This is a "froward" or perverse way, a way contrary to reason and truth; contrary to the word of God, and the directions of it; it is a crooked distorted path; it is not according to rule; it is a deviation from the way of God's commandment, and is a "strange" one; the Scriptures know nothing of it, and do not point and direct unto it; it estranges a man from God, and carries him further and further off from him. It may be rendered, "perverse [is] the way of a man, even of a stranger" t; of one that is a stranger to God and godliness; to Christ and his Gospel; to the Spirit, and the operations of his grace on the heart; to his own heart, and his state and condition by nature; and to all good men, and all that is good;
but [as for] the pure, his work [is] right. God is pure, purity itself, in comparison of whom nothing is pure; and his work in creation, providence, and grace, is right; there is no unrighteousness in him; and this sense is favoured by the Septuagint and Arabic versions: or rather every good man, who, through the pure righteousness of Christ imputed to him, and through his precious blood being sprinkled on him, or rather through being washed in it, and through the grace of God bestowed on him, is pure, wholly cleansed from sin; has a pure heart, speaks a pure language, and holds the mystery of faith in a pure conscience or conversation: and his work, or the work of God upon him, is right and good; or his work of faith, which he exercises on God, is hearty and genuine: and even his works, as the Targum, Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions, have it in the plural number; all his good works are right; being done from love, in faith, in the name and strength of Christ, and to the glory of God.
t וזר "et alieni", Pagninus, Montanus; "et extranei", Vatablus; so Jarchi, Kimchi, and Ben Melech.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Or, “Perverse is the way of a sin burdened man.”
