Proverbs 2:21
For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
In Context
20that thou may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.
22But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, and the treacherous shall be rooted out of it.
Cross References
Job 42:12So LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. And he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-donkeys.
Psalms 37:9For evil-doers shall be cut off, but those who wait for LORD, they shall inherit the land.
Psalms 37:18LORD knows the days of the perfect, and their inheritance shall be forever.
Psalms 37:29The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell in it forever.
Psalms 112:4To the upright there arises light in the darkness. [He is] gracious, and merciful, and righteous.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 2:11-22
The Benefits Conferred by Wisdom. 10 When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; 11 Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee: 12 To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things; 13 Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness; 14 Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked; 15 Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths: 16 To deliver thee from the strange… Read the whole commentary →