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Proverbs 21:15
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Proverbs 21:15
15It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
15 It is ioy to the iust to doe iudgement: but destruction shalbe to the workers of iniquitie.
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DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 21:15
Gladness, delight, or rejoicing.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage
In a moral sense, upright; honest; having principles of rectitude; or conforming exactly to the laws, and to principles of rectitude in social conduct; equitable in the distribution of justice.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage
But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat, Bible Words Glossary (1893) · KJV usage
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
destruction
Ruin, overthrow, death, wasting, or the calamity and loss produced by destroying.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage
Persons who work, labor, or perform deeds.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828
Wickedness, unrighteousness, injustice, or a particular sin.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage
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Open the full verse study29The way of the Lord is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
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Open the full verse study23And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
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Open the full verse study12I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.
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Open the full verse study5Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.
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Open the full verse study12Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
13The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
15I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
16I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
17And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
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Open the full verse study41The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;
42And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
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Open the full verse study8I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
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Open the full verse study34Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
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Open the full verse study27But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.
28There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.
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Open the full verse study12The righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked: but God overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness.
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Open the full verse study20And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
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Open the full verse study1PRAISE ye the Lord. Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord, that delighteth greatly in his commandments.
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Open the full verse study16I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
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Open the full verse study92Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.
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Open the full verse study22For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
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