Proverbs 12:3

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No one can be established through wickedness, but a righteous root cannot be moved.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 10:25 : 25 When the storm passes through, the wicked are swept away, but the righteous are an everlasting foundation.
  • Prov 12:12 : 12 The wicked person has desired the stronghold of the wicked, but the root of the righteous will yield fruit.
  • Eph 3:17 : 17 that Christ will dwell in your hearts through faith, so that, because you have been rooted and grounded in love,
  • Col 2:7 : 7 rooted and built up in him and firm in your faith just as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
  • 1 Sam 25:33 : 33 Praised be your good judgment! May you yourself be rewarded for having prevented me this day from shedding blood and taking matters into my own hands!
  • Job 5:3-5 : 3 I myself have seen the fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his place of residence. 4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed at the place where judgment is rendered, nor is there anyone to deliver them. 5 The hungry eat up his harvest, and take it even from behind the thorns, and the thirsty pant for their wealth.
  • Job 15:29 : 29 He will not grow rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the land.
  • Job 20:5-9 : 5 that the elation of the wicked is brief, the joy of the godless lasts but a moment. 6 Even though his stature reaches to the heavens and his head touches the clouds, 7 he will perish forever, like his own excrement; those who used to see him will say,‘Where is he?’ 8 Like a dream he flies away, never again to be found, and like a vision of the night he is put to flight. 9 People who had seen him will not see him again, and the place where he was will recognize him no longer.
  • Job 27:16-18 : 16 If he piles up silver like dust and stores up clothing like mounds of clay, 17 what he stores up a righteous man will wear, and an innocent man will inherit his silver. 18 The house he builds is as fragile as a moth’s cocoon, like a hut that a watchman has made.
  • Ps 15:5 : 5 He does not charge interest when he lends his money. He does not take bribes to testify against the innocent. The one who lives like this will never be shaken.
  • Ps 125:1-2 : 1 A song of ascents. Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved and will endure forever. 2 As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds his people, now and forevermore.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 10:29-30
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    29The way of the LORD is like a stronghold for the upright, but it is destruction to evildoers.

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    12The wicked person has desired the stronghold of the wicked, but the root of the righteous will yield fruit.

  • Prov 12:2
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    2A good person obtains favor from the LORD, but the LORD condemns a person with wicked schemes.

  • Ps 125:3
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    3Indeed, the scepter of a wicked king will not settle upon the allotted land of the godly. Otherwise the godly might do what is wrong.

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    6Righteousness guards the one who lives with integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.

  • Ps 37:16-17
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    16The little bit that a godly man owns is better than the wealth of many evil men,

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  • Prov 2:22
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    22but the wicked will be removed from the land, and the treacherous will be torn away from it.

  • Prov 24:15-16
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    15Do not lie in wait like the wicked against the place where the righteous live; do not assault his home.

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  • Prov 21:12
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    12The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked; he overthrows the wicked to their ruin.

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    25When the storm passes through, the wicked are swept away, but the righteous are an everlasting foundation.

  • Prov 12:21
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    21No harm will be directed at the righteous, but the wicked are filled with calamity.

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    3He is like a tree planted by flowing streams; it yields its fruit at the proper time, and its leaves never fall off. He succeeds in everything he attempts.

    4Not so with the wicked! Instead they are like wind-driven chaff.

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  • Prov 11:5-6
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    5The righteousness of the blameless will make their way smooth, but the wicked will fall through their own wickedness.

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    36to defraud a person in a lawsuit– the Lord does not approve of such things!

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    11The household of the wicked will be destroyed, but the tent of the upright will flourish.

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    28The one who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will flourish like a green leaf.

  • Jer 17:8
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    8They will be like a tree planted near a stream whose roots spread out toward the water. It has nothing to fear when the heat comes. Its leaves are always green. It has no need to be concerned in a year of drought. It does not stop bearing fruit.

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    32An evil person will be thrown down through his wickedness, but a righteous person takes refuge in his integrity.

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    29A wicked person has put on a bold face, but as for the upright, he establishes his ways.

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    16Below his roots dry up, and his branches wither above.

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    18The wicked person earns deceitful wages, but the one who sows righteousness reaps a genuine reward.

  • Prov 29:27
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    27An unjust person is an abomination to the righteous, and the one who lives an upright life is an abomination to the wicked.

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    21Be assured that the evil person will not be unpunished, but the descendants of the righteous have escaped harm.

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    18A good tree is not able to bear bad fruit, nor a bad tree to bear good fruit.

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    22Throw your burden upon the LORD, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the godly to be shaken.

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    9But the righteous man holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.