Proverbs 21:12
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12 The Righteous One observes the house of the wicked;
he casts the wicked down to ruin.(A)
Proverbs 14:11
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11 The house of the wicked is destroyed,
but the tent of the upright flourishes.(A)
Psalm 37:35-36
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2 Peter 3:6-7
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6 through which the world of that time was deluged with water and perished.(A) 7 But by the same word the present heavens and earth have been reserved for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the godless.(B)
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2 Peter 2:4-9
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4 For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned but cast them into hell and committed them to chains[a] of deepest darkness to be kept until the judgment;(A) 5 and if he did not spare the ancient world, even though he saved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;(B) 6 and if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to destruction[b] and made them an example of what is coming to the ungodly;[c] 7 and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man greatly distressed by the debauchery of the lawless(C) 8 (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by their lawless deeds that he saw and heard), 9 then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trial and to keep the unrighteous until the day of judgment, when they will be punished(D)
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1 Corinthians 10:5
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5 Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, and they were struck down in the wilderness.(A)
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Amos 4:11
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11 I overthrew some of you
as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,
and you were like a brand snatched from the fire;
yet you did not return to me,
says the Lord.(A)
Proverbs 14:32
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32 The wicked are overthrown by their evildoing,
but the righteous find a refuge in their integrity.[a](A)
Footnotes
- 14.32 Gk Syr: Heb in their death
Psalm 107:43
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43 Let those who are wise pay attention to these things
and consider the steadfast love of the Lord.(A)
Psalm 52:5
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5 But God will break you down forever;
he will snatch and tear you from your tent;
he will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah(A)
Job 5:3
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3 I have seen fools taking root,
but suddenly I cursed their dwelling.(A)
Habakkuk 2:9-12
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9 “Alas for you who get evil gain for your house,
setting your nest on high
to be safe from the reach of harm!”(A)
10 You have devised shame for your house
by cutting off many peoples;
you have forfeited your life.(B)
11 The very stones will cry out from the wall,
and the rafter will respond from the woodwork.
12 “Alas for you who build a town by bloodshed
and found a city on iniquity!”(C)
Hosea 14:9
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9 Those who are wise understand these things;
those who are discerning know them.
For the ways of the Lord are right,
and the upright walk in them,
but transgressors stumble in them.(A)
Proverbs 13:6
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6 Righteousness guards one whose way is upright,
but sin overthrows the wicked.(A)
Proverbs 11:3-5
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3 The integrity of the upright guides them,
but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them.(A)
4 Riches do not profit in the day of wrath,
but righteousness delivers from death.(B)
5 The righteousness of the blameless keeps their ways straight,
but the wicked fall by their own wickedness.
Job 21:28-30
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28 For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince?
Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’(A)
29 Have you not asked those who travel the roads,
and do you not accept their testimony,
30 that the wicked are spared in the day of calamity
and are rescued in the day of wrath?(B)
Job 18:14-21
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14 They are torn from the tent in which they trusted
and are brought to the king of terrors.(A)
15 In their tents nothing remains;
sulfur is scattered upon their habitations.(B)
16 Their roots dry up beneath,
and their branches wither above.(C)
17 Their memory perishes from the earth,
and they have no name in the street.(D)
18 They are thrust from light into darkness
and driven out of the world.
19 They have no offspring or descendant among their people
and no survivor where they used to live.(E)
20 They of the west are appalled at their fate,
and horror seizes those of the east.
21 Surely such are the dwellings of the ungodly;
such is the place of those who do not know God.”(F)
Job 8:15
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15 If one leans against its house, it will not stand;
if one lays hold of it, it will not endure.(A)
Genesis 19:29
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29 So it was that, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot had settled.(A)
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Job 27:13-23
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13 “This is the portion of the wicked with God
and the heritage that oppressors receive from the Almighty:[a](A)
14 If their children are multiplied, it is for the sword,
and their offspring have not enough to eat.(B)
15 Those who survive them the pestilence buries,
and their widows make no lamentation.(C)
16 Though they heap up silver like dust
and pile up clothing like clay,(D)
17 they may pile it up, but the just will wear it,
and the innocent will divide the silver.(E)
18 They build their houses like nests,
like booths made by sentinels of the vineyard.
19 They go to bed with wealth but will do so no more;
they open their eyes, and it is gone.(F)
20 Terrors overtake them like a flood;
in the night a whirlwind carries them off.(G)
21 The east wind lifts them up, and they are gone;
it sweeps them out of their place.(H)
22 It[b] hurls at them without pity;
they flee from its[c] power in headlong flight.(I)
23 It[d] claps its[e] hands at them
and hisses at them from its[f] place.(J)
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