Proverbs 21:15
It is a joy to the good man to do right, but it is destruction to the workers of evil.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
In Context
16The wanderer from the way of knowledge will have his resting-place among the shades.
Cross References
Psalms 40:8\40:7\Then I said, See, I come; it is recorded of me in the roll of the book,
Psalms 119:16I will have delight in your rules; I will not let your word go out of my mind.
Proverbs 5:20Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?
Proverbs 21:12The Upright One, looking on the house of the evil-doer, lets sinners be overturned to their destruction.
Matthew 13:41The Son of man will send out his angels, and they will take out of his kingdom everything which is a cause of error, and all those who do wrong,
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 21:15
14 A gift in secret pacifieth anger: and a reward in the bosom strong wrath. Here is, 1. The power that is commonly found to be in gifts. Nothing is more violent than anger. O the force of strong wrath! And yet a handsome present, prudently managed, will turn away some men's wrath when it seemed implacable, and disarm the keenest and most passionate resentments. Covetousness is commonly a master-sin and has the command of other lusts. Pecuniæ obediunt omnia — Money commands all things. Thus Jacob pacified Esau and… Read the whole commentary →