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Proverbs 11:21–24

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Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.
As a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.
The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.
There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
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From verse 21

  1. Psalms 112:1–2Rank 1 from verse 21
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    1PRAISE ye the Lord. Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord, that delighteth greatly in his commandments.

    2His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the upright shall be blessed.

  2. Acts 2:39Rank 2 from verse 21
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    39For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.

  3. Jeremiah 32:39Rank 3 from verse 21
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    39And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:

  4. Psalms 37:26Rank 4 from verse 21
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    26He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed is blessed.

  5. Proverbs 16:5Rank 5 from verse 21
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    5Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.

  6. Proverbs 13:22Rank 6 from verse 21
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    22A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.

  7. Genesis 17:7–8Rank 7 from verse 21
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    7And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.

    8And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.

  8. Exodus 23:2Rank 8 from verse 21
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    2¶ Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:

  9. Isaiah 27:4Rank 9 from verse 21
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    4Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.

From verse 22

  1. 1 Peter 3:3–4Rank 1 from verse 22
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    3Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;

    4But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

  2. Proverbs 31:30Rank 2 from verse 22
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    30Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.

  3. Nahum 3:4–6Rank 3 from verse 22
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    4Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.

    5Behold, I am against thee, saith the Lord of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.

    6And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.

  4. 2 Peter 2:22Rank 4 from verse 22
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    22But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

  5. Proverbs 7:10Rank 5 from verse 22
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    10And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.

  6. Proverbs 9:13Rank 6 from verse 22
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    13¶ A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.

  7. Genesis 24:47Rank 7 from verse 22
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    47And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor’s son, whom Milcah bare unto him: and I put the earring upon her face, and the bracelets upon her hands.

  8. Ezekiel 16:15–22Rank 8 from verse 22
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    15¶ But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.

    16And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.

    17Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them,

    18And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them.

    19My meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou hast even set it before them for a sweet savour: and thus it was, saith the Lord God.

    20Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter,

    21That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?

    22And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.

From verse 23

  1. Matthew 5:6Rank 1 from verse 23
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    6Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

  2. Psalms 37:4Rank 2 from verse 23
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    4Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

  3. Romans 2:8–9Rank 3 from verse 23
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    8But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,

    9Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;

  4. Isaiah 26:9Rank 4 from verse 23
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    9With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

  5. Jeremiah 17:16Rank 5 from verse 23
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    16As for me, I have not hastened from being a pastor to follow thee: neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was right before thee.

  6. Proverbs 10:28Rank 6 from verse 23
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    28The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.

  7. Psalms 10:17Rank 7 from verse 23
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    17Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:

  8. Psalms 119:10Rank 8 from verse 23
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    10With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.

  9. Psalms 27:4Rank 9 from verse 23
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    4One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in his temple.

  10. Hebrews 10:27Rank 10 from verse 23
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    27But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.

  11. Proverbs 11:7Rank 11 from verse 23
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    7When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perisheth.

  12. Psalms 119:5Rank 12 from verse 23
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    5O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!

  13. Psalms 39:7–8Rank 13 from verse 23
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    7And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.

    8Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.

From verse 24

  1. Proverbs 19:17Rank 1 from verse 24
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    17He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.

  2. Luke 6:38Rank 2 from verse 24
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    38Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.

  3. Deuteronomy 15:10Rank 3 from verse 24
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    10Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto.

  4. Psalms 112:9Rank 4 from verse 24
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    9He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor; his righteousness endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honour.

  5. Ecclesiastes 11:6Rank 5 from verse 24
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    6In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.

  6. Haggai 1:6Rank 6 from verse 24
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    6Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.

  7. Haggai 1:9–11Rank 7 from verse 24
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    9Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the Lord of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.

    10Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.

    11And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.

  8. 2 Corinthians 9:5–11Rank 8 from verse 24
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    5Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not as of covetousness.

    6But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.

    7Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

    8And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:

    9(As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever.

    10Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)

    11Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God.

  9. Proverbs 11:18Rank 9 from verse 24
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    18The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward.

  10. Haggai 2:16–19Rank 10 from verse 24
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    16Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.

    17I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the Lord.

    18Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid, consider it.

    19Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless you.

  11. Proverbs 28:8Rank 11 from verse 24
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    8He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.

  12. Acts 11:29–30Rank 12 from verse 24
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    29Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judæa:

    30Which also they did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.

  13. Ecclesiastes 11:1–2Rank 13 from verse 24
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    1CAST thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.

    2Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth.

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DEFINED WORDS

Proverbs 11:21

COMBINED MEANING

hand

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Sense 1: The part of the body at the end of the arm. Sense 2: Figuratively, power, possession, aid, or agency.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

join

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To bring or come together; connect, unite, associate, or enter into the relationship named.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

shall

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An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

but

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Sense 1: However; marking contrast or qualification. Sense 2: Except or unless; excluding all others or alternatives. Sense 3: Only; no more than what follows.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

seed

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Sense 1: The reproductive substance of a plant or creature, especially what is sown to produce after its kind. Sense 2: Offspring, descendants, or lineage. Sense 3: A beginning, source, or thing sown that produces a result.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

righteous

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Sense 1: Right, just, equitable, or in accord with truth, justice, or the will of God. Sense 2: Upright or innocent in a matter. Sense 3: Made or regarded as right. Sense 4: As a noun, persons so described.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

delivered

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of deliver. Sense 1: To rescue, save, free, or bring safely out of danger or bondage. Sense 2: To hand over, give up, or place into another's power or possession. Sense 3: To bring forth, convey, declare, or commit something to another. Sense 4: To give birth or be delivered of a child.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

DEFINED WORDS

Proverbs 11:22

COMBINED MEANING

in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

fair

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1. Beautiful, comely, or pleasing in appearance. 2. Of speech or outward show, pleasing or flattering. 3. Of weather, clear or favourable.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

which

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1. An interrogative or relative pronoun identifying one or more persons or things from a stated or implied set. 2. That which; what.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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without

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Outside or on the exterior; beyond a boundary; lacking, absent, free from, not accompanied by, or apart from the person, thing, condition, means, or relation named.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Proverbs 11:23

COMBINED MEANING

desire

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Sense 1: A wish, longing, request, pleasure, or thing wished for. Sense 2: To wish for, long for, request, or take pleasure in.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

righteous

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Sense 1: Right, just, equitable, or in accord with truth, justice, or the will of God. Sense 2: Upright or innocent in a matter. Sense 3: Made or regarded as right. Sense 4: As a noun, persons so described.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

good

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Sense 1: Right, morally upright, beneficial, pleasing, useful, suitable, sound, favourable, or excellent. Sense 2: A good thing, benefit, welfare, possession, or goods. Sense 3: In ‘make good,’ to repair, repay, fulfil, establish, or prove.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

but

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Sense 1: However; marking contrast or qualification. Sense 2: Except or unless; excluding all others or alternatives. Sense 3: Only; no more than what follows.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

expectation

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1. A looking or waiting for something anticipated; hope. 2. That which is looked to or relied upon.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Bullokar 1616

COMBINED MEANING

wrath

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Fierce anger, indignation, displeasure, rage, or the punitive judgment and destructive action that proceed from it.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Proverbs 11:24

COMBINED MEANING

scattereth

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Disperses, spreads abroad, separates, drives away, casts in different directions, or causes what was gathered to be divided.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

yet

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1. Up to or at the present or stated time; still. 2. At some future time. 3. Nevertheless; however. 4. In addition; further.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

meet

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Sense 1: To come or bring together, encounter, assemble, or join. Sense 2: Fitting, suitable, proper, worthy, or qualified.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

but

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Sense 1: However; marking contrast or qualification. Sense 2: Except or unless; excluding all others or alternatives. Sense 3: Only; no more than what follows.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

poverty

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The condition of being poor, destitute, or lacking necessary provision.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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11:20They that are of a froward heart are abomination to the Lord: but such as are upright in their way are his delight.

11:21Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.

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11:22As a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.

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11:23The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.

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11:24There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.

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11:25The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.

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