Verse 15

Justice brings joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 10:29 : 29 The way of the LORD is a stronghold to the blameless, but it is ruin to evildoers.
  • Prov 21:12 : 12 The righteous one considers the house of the wicked and brings the wicked down to ruin.
  • Eccl 3:12 : 12 I know that there is nothing better for people than to rejoice and to do good while they live.
  • Isa 64:5 : 5 We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like filthy rags. We wither like a leaf, and our sins carry us away like the wind.
  • Matt 7:23 : 23 Then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.'
  • Matt 13:41-42 : 41 The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather from his kingdom all things that cause sin and all who practice lawlessness. 42 They will throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
  • Luke 13:27-28 : 27 'But he will reply, 'I don’t know you or where you come from. Away from me, all you evildoers!' 28 There will be weeping there, and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves thrown out.
  • John 4:34 : 34 Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of the one who sent me and to accomplish his work.
  • Rom 7:22 : 22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law;
  • Job 29:12-17 : 12 Because I rescued the poor who cried for help, and the orphan who had no helper. 13 The blessing of the one about to perish came upon me, and I made the widow's heart sing for joy. 14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was like a robe and a turban. 15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. 16 I was a father to the needy, and I searched out the case of one I did not know. 17 I broke the jaws of the wicked and snatched the prey from his teeth.
  • Ps 40:8 : 8 Then I said, 'Here I am; I have come. In the scroll of the book it is written about me.'
  • Ps 112:1 : 1 Praise the LORD! How blessed is the man who fears the LORD and greatly delights in His commandments.
  • Ps 119:16 : 16 I will delight in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.
  • Ps 119:92 : 92 If Your law had not been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.
  • Prov 5:20 : 20 Why, my son, should you be captivated by a forbidden woman or embrace the bosom of a stranger?