Proverbs 12:3
Wickedness doesn't provide security, but those who live right are deeply rooted and cannot be moved.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
In Context
2The Lord blesses the good, but he condemns anyone with evil schemes.
4A good wife is a crown for her husband, but one who brings shame is like rot in his bones.
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:33May you be rewarded for your wise decisions, for preventing me from shedding blood today and taking my own revenge.
Job 15:29They will lose their riches, their wealth will not endure, their possessions will not spread over the earth.
Job 27:16Even though they pile up silver like dust, and clothes like heaps of clay,
Psalms 125:1Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion, for it is unshakeable and endures forever.
Proverbs 12:12Wicked people long for ill-gotten gains, but good people are productive themselves.
Ephesians 3:17May Christ live in you as you trust in him, so that as you are planted deep in love,
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 12:3
2 A good man obtaineth favour of the Lord : but a man of wicked devices will he condemn. Note, 1. We are really as we are with God. Those are happy, truly happy, for ever happy, that obtain favour of the Lord, though the world frown upon them, and they find little favour with men; for in God's favour is life, and that is the fountain of all good. On the other hand those are miserable whom he condemns, however men may applaud them, and cry them up; whom he condemns he condemns to the second death. 2. We are with… Read the whole commentary →