Proverbs 16:4
The LORD has made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
In Context
3Commit your works unto the LORD, and your thoughts shall be established.
Cross References
Job 21:30That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
Isaiah 43:21This people have I formed for myself; they shall show forth my praise.
Romans 11:36For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.
2 Peter 2:3And through covetousness shall they with feigned words (o. logos) make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingers not, and their damnation slumbers not.
Revelation 4:11You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for you have created all things, and for your pleasure they are and were created.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 16:4
3 Commit thy works unto the Lord , and thy thoughts shall be established. Note, 1. It is a very desirable thing to have our thoughts established, and not tossed, and put into a hurry, by disquieting cares and fears,—to go on in an even steady course of honesty and piety, not disturbed, or put out of frame, by any event or change,—to be satisfied that all shall work for good and issue well at last, and therefore to be always easy and sedate. 2. The only way to have our thoughts established is to commit our works to… Read the whole commentary →