Proverbs 21:15Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
It is joy to the just to do judgment: and dread to them that work iniquity.
שִׂמְחָ֣ה לַ֭צַּדִּיק עֲשׂ֣וֹת מִשְׁפָּ֑ט וּ֝מְחִתָּ֗ה לְפֹ֣עֲלֵי אָֽוֶן׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Prov 10:29The strength of the upright is the way of the Lord: and fear to them that work evil.
- Matt 7:23And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity.
- Isa 64:5Thou hast met him that rejoiceth, and doth justice: in thy ways they shall remember thee: behold thou art angry, and we have sinned: in them we have been always, and we shall be saved.
- Eccl 3:12And I have known that there was no better thing than to rejoice, and to do well in this life.
- Matt 13:41The Son of man shall send his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all scandals, and them that work iniquity.
- Matt 13:42And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
- Luke 13:27And he shall say to you: I know you not, whence you are. Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.
- Luke 13:28There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth; when you shall see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God: and you yourselves thrust out.