Proverbs 12:21
Bad things usually [HYP] do not happen to righteous people, but wicked people always have troubles.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 121:7Yahweh will protect us from being harmed in any manner; he will keep us safe.
Proverbs 11:21It is certain that Yahweh will punish evil people and that righteous people will escape from being punished.
Ecclesiastes 7:18Continue to avoid doing what is evil and doing what is foolish; avoid doing both of those things by continually revering God.
Habakkuk 2:16But you are the ones who soon will be disgraced instead of being honored. It will be as though you are forced to drink a lot of wine in order that you will also stagger around, drunk. You will drink the wine that symbolizes that Yahweh will punish you, and he will cause you to be disgraced instead of being greatly respected any more.
1 Corinthians 3:22Specifically, do not boast about me, or about Apollos, or about Peter! Everything in the world exists to benefit you believers. Whether you live or whether you die, the things that are happening now or the things that will happen in the future, they are all to benefit you.
1 Peter 3:13If you ◄are eager/try very hard► to do good things, most people will not harm you. [RHQ]
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 →