Proverbs 12:21
Whatever may befall the just, it will not discourage him. But the impious will be filled with disasters.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief.
In Context
22Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord. But whoever acts faithfully pleases him.
Cross References
Psalms 121:7Let peace be in your virtue, and abundance in your towers.
Proverbs 11:21Hand in hand, the evil shall not be innocent. But the offspring of the just shall be saved.
Ecclesiastes 7:18Do not act with great impiety, and do not choose to be foolish, lest you die before your time.
Habakkuk 2:16You are filled with disgrace in place of glory. So then, drink and fall fast asleep, for the cup of the right hand of the Lord will surround you, and a disgraceful vomit will cover your glory.
1 Corinthians 3:22For all is yours: whether Paul, or Apollo, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or the present, or the future. Yes, all is yours.
1 Peter 3:13And who is it who can harm you, if you are zealous in what is good?
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 12:21
Weighty Sayings. 20 Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy. Note, 1. Those that devise mischief contrive, for the accomplishing of it, how to impose upon others; but it will prove, in the end, that they deceive themselves. Those that imagine evil, under colour of friendship, have their hearts full of this and the other advantage and satisfaction which they shall gain by it, but it is all a cheat. Let them imagine it ever so artfully, deceivers will be deceived. 2.… Read the whole commentary →