Proverbs 13:6
Justice guards the way of the innocent. But impiety undermines the sinner.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
In Context
5The just shall detest a lying word. But the impious confound and will be confounded.
Cross References
1 Kings 13:34And for this reason, the house of Jeroboam sinned, and was uprooted, and was wiped from the face of the earth.
Psalms 15:2I have said to the Lord: “You are my God, so you have no need of my goodness.”
Psalms 26:1A Psalm of David, before he was sealed. The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? The Lord is the protector of my life, of whom shall I be afraid?
Proverbs 5:22His own iniquities take hold of the impious, and he is bound by the cords of his own sins.
Proverbs 11:5The justice of the simple shall direct his way. And the impious will fall in his impiety.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 13:6
The Righteous Exclusively Happy. 5 A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame. Note, 1. Where grace reigns sin is loathsome. It is the undoubted character of every righteous man that he hates lying (that is, all sin, for every sin is a lie, and particularly all fraud and falsehood in commerce and conversation), not only that he will not tell a lie, but he abhors lying, from a rooted reigning principle of love to truth and justice, and conformity to God. 2. Where sin reigns the… Read the whole commentary →