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Proverbs 12:3
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A man shall not be established by wickedness, But the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
No one is established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous will never be moved.
A person will not be established by wickedness, But the root of the righteous will not be moved.
Doing evil brings no safety at all, but a good person has safety and security.
No one can be established through wickedness, but a righteous root cannot be moved.
A man will not be established by wickedness, But the root of the [consistently] righteous will not be moved.
A man shall not be established by wickedness, But the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
A man cannot be established by wickednesse: but the roote of the righteous shall not be mooued.
A man will not be established by wickedness,But the root of the righteous will not be shaken.
A man cannot be established through wickedness, but the righteous cannot be uprooted.
Sin cannot offer security! But if you live right, you will be as secure as a tree with deep roots.
No one is made secure by wickedness, but the roots of the righteous will never be moved.
A man shall not be established by wickedness; but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
Evil people are never safe, but good people remain safe and secure.
A man shall not be established by wickedness; but the root of the righteous shall flourish.
Wickedness does not give security, but righteous people stand firm.
A person will not be established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous will not be moved.
A man shall not be established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous shall not be dislodged.
A man ca not endure in vngodlynesse, but ye rote of ye righteous shal not be moued.
A man shall not be established by wickedness; But the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
No man will make himself safe through evil-doing; but the root of upright men will never be moved.
A man shall not be established by wickedness; but the root of the righteous shall never be moved.
A man shall not bee established by wickednesse: but the roote of the righteous shall not be mooued.
A man can not endure in vngodlinesse: but the roote of the ryghteous shall not be moued.
A man shall not prosper by wickedness; but the roots of the righteous shall not be taken up.
A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall never be moved.
A man schal not be maad strong by wyckidnesse; and the root of iust men schal not be moued.
Man shall not be established by wickedness; But the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
A man is not established by wickedness, But the root of the righteous cannot be moved.
Wickedness never brings stability, but the godly have deep roots.
A man will not stand by doing what is wrong, but the root of those who are right with God will not be moved.
No one finds security by wickedness, but the root of the righteous will never be moved.
A son of earth, shall not be established, by lawlessness, but, the root of the righteous, shall not be disturbed.
Man shall not be strengthened by wickedness: and the root of the just shall not be moved.
A man is not established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous will never be moved.
A man is not established by wickedness, And the root of the righteous is not moved.
You can't find firm footing in a swamp, but life rooted in God stands firm.
A man will not be established by wickedness, But the root of the righteous will not be moved.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
shall not be established: Proverbs 10:25, Job 5:3-5, Job 15:29, Job 20:5-9, Job 27:16-18
the root: Proverbs 12:12, Psalms 15:5, Psalms 125:1, Psalms 125:2, 1 Samuel 25:33, Ephesians 3:17, Colossians 2:7
Reciprocal: Psalms 13:4 - when Matthew 13:21 - root Luke 8:13 - and these
Cross-References
Abraham is to become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed through him.
May peoples serve youand nations bow in worship to you.Be master over your relatives;may your mother’s sons bow in worship to you.Those who curse you will be cursed,and those who bless you will be blessed.
Your offspring will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out toward the west, the east, the north, and the south. All the peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.
But Laban said to him, “If I have found favor with you, stay. I have learned by divination that the Lord has blessed me because of you.”
For you had very little before I came, but now your wealth has increased. The Lord has blessed you because of me. And now, when will I also do something for my own family?”
From the time that he put him in charge of his household and of all that he owned, the Lord blessed the Egyptian’s house because of Joseph. The Lord’s blessing was on all that he owned, in his house and in his fields.
But if you will carefully obey him and do everything I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and a foe to your foes.
He crouches, he lies down like a lionor a lioness—who dares to rouse him?Those who bless you will be blessed,and those who curse you will be cursed.
May his name endure forever;as long as the sun shines,may his fame increase.May all nations be blessed by himand call him blessed.
“And the King will answer them, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’
Gill's Notes on the Bible
A man shall not be established by wickedness,.... Not any man, though he may be established in his wickedness, so as not to be rooted out of it; yet he cannot be so established by it as not to be removed from a prosperous state and condition into an unhappy and distressed one; he may seem to be in a firm and settled state of prosperity, amidst all his wickedness; be like a green bay tree, spreading itself, and seemingly immovable, when on a sudden it is blown down and rooted up, and is no more: so Babylon will seem to be in a settled state of grandeur, ease, and rest, and say, "I sit a queen, and shall see no sorrow"; when in one day, and in one hour, her destruction shall come upon her, Revelation 18:7;
but the root of the righteous shall not be moved; they are rooted and grounded in the love of God, which is immovable; they are rooted and built up in Christ, and so are as Mount Zion, which can never be removed; the root of the matter, or of grace, is in them, which can never be lost; while others wither away, because they have no root in them, these abide; and though they may be shaken with the persecutions of men, the temptations of Satan, the errors of the wicked, and their own corruptions, yet they afresh take root again downward, and bring forth fruit upward.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 12:3. A man shall not be established by wickedness — Evil is always variable: it has no fixed principle, except the root that is in the human heart; and even that is ever assuming new forms. Nothing is permanent but goodness; and that is unchangeable, because it comes from GOD. The produce of goodness is permanent, because it has God's blessing in it: the fruit of wickedness, or the property procured by wickedness, is transitory, because it has God's curse in it. The righteous has his root in God; and therefore he shall not be moved.
