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Geneva Bible

Proverbs 13:6

Righteousnesse preserueth the vpright of life: but wickednes ouerthroweth the sinner.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Righteousness;   Sin;   Wicked (People);   The Topic Concordance - Righteousness;   Sin;   Uprightness;   Wickedness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Righteousness;   Uprightness;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Righteousness guards people of integrity,but wickedness undermines the sinner.
Hebrew Names Version
Righteousness guards the way of integrity, But wickedness overthrows the sinner.
King James Version
Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
English Standard Version
Righteousness guards him whose way is blameless, but sin overthrows the wicked.
New American Standard Bible
Righteousness guards the one whose way is blameless, But wickedness brings the sinner to ruin.
New Century Version
Doing what is right protects the honest person, but doing evil ruins the sinner.
New English Translation
Righteousness guards the one who lives with integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.
Amplified Bible
Righteousness (being in right standing with God) guards the one whose way is blameless, But wickedness undermines and overthrows the sinner.
World English Bible
Righteousness guards the way of integrity, But wickedness overthrows the sinner.
Legacy Standard Bible
Righteousness guards the one whose way is blameless,But wickedness subverts the sinner.
Berean Standard Bible
Righteousness guards the man of integrity, but wickedness undermines the sinner.
Contemporary English Version
Live right, and you are safe! But sin will destroy you.
Complete Jewish Bible
Righteousness protects him whose way is honest, but wickedness brings down the sinner.
Darby Translation
Righteousness preserveth him that is perfect in the way; but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
Easy-to-Read Version
Goodness protects honest people, but evil destroys those who love to sin.
George Lamsa Translation
Righteousness keeps him that is upright in his way; but wickedness overthrows the sinner.
Good News Translation
Righteousness protects the innocent; wickedness is the downfall of sinners.
Lexham English Bible
Righteousness will guard the upright of way, but wickedness will overthrow sin.
Literal Translation
Righteousness keeps the upright one in the way, but wickedness subverts a sin-offering.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Righteousnesse kepeth the innocet in the waye, but vngodlynesse shal ouerthrowe the synner.
American Standard Version
Righteousness guardeth him that is upright in the way; But wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
Bible in Basic English
Righteousness keeps safe him whose way is without error, but evil-doers are overturned by sin.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Righteousness guardeth him that is upright in the way; but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
King James Version (1611)
Righteousnesse keepeth him that is vpright in the way: but wickednesse ouerthroweth the sinner.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Ryghteousnesse kepeth the innocent in the way: but vngodlinesse doth ouerthrowe the sinner.
English Revised Version
Righteousness guardeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Riytfulnesse kepith the weie of an innocent man; but wickidnesse disseyueth a synnere.
Update Bible Version
Righteousness guards him that is upright in the way; But wickedness overthrows the sinner.
Webster's Bible Translation
Righteousness keepeth [him that is] upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
New King James Version
Righteousness guards him whose way is blameless, But wickedness overthrows the sinner.
New Living Translation
Godliness guards the path of the blameless, but the evil are misled by sin.
New Life Bible
What is right and good watches over the one whose way is without blame, but sin destroys the sinful.
New Revised Standard
Righteousness guards one whose way is upright, but sin overthrows the wicked.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Righteousness, guardeth the man of blameless way, but, lawlessness, overthroweth the sinner.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Justice keepeth the way of the innocent: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
Revised Standard Version
Righteousness guards him whose way is upright, but sin overthrows the wicked.
Young's Literal Translation
Righteousness keepeth him who is perfect in the way, And wickedness overthroweth a sin offering.
THE MESSAGE
A God-loyal life keeps you on track; sin dumps the wicked in the ditch.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Righteousness guards the one whose way is blameless, But wickedness subverts the sinner.

Contextual Overview

6 Righteousnesse preserueth the vpright of life: but wickednes ouerthroweth the sinner.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Righteousness: Proverbs 11:3, Proverbs 11:5, Proverbs 11:6, Psalms 15:2, Psalms 25:21, Psalms 26:1

wickedness: Proverbs 5:22, Proverbs 21:12, 2 Chronicles 28:23, Psalms 140:11

the sinner: Heb. sin

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 1:52 - wickedness 1 Kings 13:34 - to cut it off Job 2:3 - an upright

Cross-References

Genesis 13:6
So that the land coulde not beare them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they coulde not dwell together.
Genesis 13:7
Also there was debate betweene ye heardmen of Abrams cattell, & the heardmen of Lots cattell. (and the Canaanites and the Perizzites dwelled at that time in the land.)
Genesis 13:10
So when Lot lifted vp his eyes, he saw that all the plaine of Iorden was watered euery where: (for before the Lorde destroyed Sodom and Gomorah, it was as the garden of the Lorde, like the land of Egypt, as thou goest vnto Zoar)
Genesis 13:11
Then Lot chose vnto him all the plaine of Iorden, and tooke his iourney from the East: and they departed the one from the other.
Genesis 13:17
Arise, walke through the land, in ye length thereof, and breadth thereof: for I will giue it vnto thee.
Genesis 13:18
Then Abram remoued his tent, and came and dwelled in the plaine of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and builded there an altar vnto ye Lorde.
1 Timothy 6:9
For they that will be rich, fall into tentation and snares, and into many foolish and noysome lustes, which drowne men in perdition and destruction.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Righteousness keepeth [him that is] upright in the way,.... Men of uprightness and integrity, whose hearts are sincere in the ways of God; the principle of grace and righteousness in them keeps them in those ways, and will not suffer them to turn aside into crooked paths; the word of righteousness, the doctrine of the Gospel, is a means of preserving them from sin, and of keeping them in the right way; particularly the doctrine of Christ's righteousness, and justification by it, is a great antidote against sin, and a powerful motive and incentive to the performance of good works, and all the duties of religion: it engages men to observe every command of Christ, to walk in all his ways; and is a great preservative from false doctrine and antichristian worship;

but wickedness overthroweth the sinner; it is the cause of his utter overthrow, of his being punished with everlasting destruction. It is, in the Hebrew text, "sin" b itself; the sinner is so called, because he is perfectly wicked, as Jarchi observes; he is nothing but sin, a mere mass of sin and corruption. Aben Ezra renders it, "the man of sin"; and it may be well applied to him, who is emphatically called so, and is likewise the son of perdition; who, for his wickedness, will be overthrown and destroyed at the coming of Christ, and with the brightness of it, 2 Thessalonians 2:3.

b חטאת "peccatum"; Montanus, Vatablus, Cocceius, Michaelis; "lapsationem", Schultens.


 
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