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Proverbs 12:3

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

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

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Righteousness;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, the Book of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Root;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Root;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for December 18;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
No one can be made secure by wickedness,but the root of the righteous is immovable.
Hebrew Names Version
A man shall not be established by wickedness, But the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
King James Version
A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
English Standard Version
No one is established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous will never be moved.
New American Standard Bible
A person will not be established by wickedness, But the root of the righteous will not be moved.
New Century Version
Doing evil brings no safety at all, but a good person has safety and security.
Amplified Bible
A man will not be established by wickedness, But the root of the [consistently] righteous will not be moved.
World English Bible
A man shall not be established by wickedness, But the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
Geneva Bible (1587)
A man cannot be established by wickednesse: but the roote of the righteous shall not be mooued.
Legacy Standard Bible
A man will not be established by wickedness,But the root of the righteous will not be shaken.
Berean Standard Bible
A man cannot be established through wickedness, but the righteous cannot be uprooted.
Contemporary English Version
Sin cannot offer security! But if you live right, you will be as secure as a tree with deep roots.
Complete Jewish Bible
No one is made secure by wickedness, but the roots of the righteous will never be moved.
Darby Translation
A man shall not be established by wickedness; but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
Easy-to-Read Version
Evil people are never safe, but good people remain safe and secure.
George Lamsa Translation
A man shall not be established by wickedness; but the root of the righteous shall flourish.
Good News Translation
Wickedness does not give security, but righteous people stand firm.
Lexham English Bible
A person will not be established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous will not be moved.
Literal Translation
A man shall not be established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous shall not be dislodged.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
A man ca not endure in vngodlynesse, but ye rote of ye righteous shal not be moued.
American Standard Version
A man shall not be established by wickedness; But the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
Bible in Basic English
No man will make himself safe through evil-doing; but the root of upright men will never be moved.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
A man shall not be established by wickedness; but the root of the righteous shall never be moved.
King James Version (1611)
A man shall not bee established by wickednesse: but the roote of the righteous shall not be mooued.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
A man can not endure in vngodlinesse: but the roote of the ryghteous shall not be moued.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
A man shall not prosper by wickedness; but the roots of the righteous shall not be taken up.
English Revised Version
A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall never be moved.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
A man schal not be maad strong by wyckidnesse; and the root of iust men schal not be moued.
Update Bible Version
Man shall not be established by wickedness; But the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
Webster's Bible Translation
A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
New King James Version
A man is not established by wickedness, But the root of the righteous cannot be moved.
New Living Translation
Wickedness never brings stability, but the godly have deep roots.
New Life Bible
A man will not stand by doing what is wrong, but the root of those who are right with God will not be moved.
New Revised Standard
No one finds security by wickedness, but the root of the righteous will never be moved.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
A son of earth, shall not be established, by lawlessness, but, the root of the righteous, shall not be disturbed.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Man shall not be strengthened by wickedness: and the root of the just shall not be moved.
Revised Standard Version
A man is not established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous will never be moved.
Young's Literal Translation
A man is not established by wickedness, And the root of the righteous is not moved.
THE MESSAGE
You can't find firm footing in a swamp, but life rooted in God stands firm.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
A man will not be established by wickedness, But the root of the righteous will not be moved.

Contextual Overview

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

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

Genesis 18:18
After all, Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations on the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using his name.
Genesis 27:29
May peoples serve you and nations bow down to you. You will be lord over your brothers, and the sons of your mother will bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed, and those who bless you be blessed."
Genesis 28:14
Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west, east, north, and south. All the families of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using your name and that of your descendants.
Genesis 30:27
But Laban said to him, "If I have found favor in your sight, please stay here, for I have learned by divination that the Lord has blessed me on account of you."
Genesis 30:30
Indeed, you had little before I arrived, but now your possessions have increased many times over. The Lord has blessed you wherever I worked. But now, how long must it be before I do something for my own family too?"
Genesis 39:5
From the time Potiphar appointed him over his household and over all that he owned, the Lord blessed the Egyptian's household for Joseph's sake. The blessing of the Lord was on everything that he had, both in his house and in his fields.
Exodus 23:22
But if you diligently obey him and do all that I command, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and I will be an adversary to your adversaries.
Numbers 24:9
They crouch and lie down like a lion, and as a lioness, who can stir him? Blessed is the one who blesses you, and cursed is the one who curses you!'"
Psalms 72:17
May his fame endure! May his dynasty last as long as the sun remains in the sky! May they use his name when they formulate their blessings! May all nations consider him to be favored by God!
Matthew 25:40
And the king will answer them, ‘I tell you the truth, just as you did it for one of the least of these brothers or sisters of mine, you did it 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.


 
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