The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked cometh in his stead.


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Isaiah 57 1 The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.
Proverbs 21 18 The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.
Psalms 34 17 The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.
Proverbs 11 6 The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.
Jeremiah 15 21 And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.
Proverbs 11 10 When it goeth well with the righteous, the city rejoiceth: and when the wicked perish, there is shouting.
Proverbs 14 32 The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.
Proverbs 11 31 Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.
Malachi 3 18 Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
Proverbs 10 25 As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.
Isaiah 55 7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Proverbs 11 5 The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
Proverbs 13 6 Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
Proverbs 20 26 A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.
Ezekiel 18 27 Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
Psalms 85 13 Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of his steps.
John 5 29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.
Proverbs 11 18 The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward.
Proverbs 12 13 The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.
Proverbs 12 7 The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.
Ezekiel 33 19 But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.
Ezekiel 33 12 Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth.
Ezekiel 3 19 Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
Psalms 58 10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
Psalms 37 40 And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.
Psalms 37 21 The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.
Psalms 7 9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.
Job 35 8 Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.
Malachi 3 15 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.
Proverbs 28 12 When righteous men do rejoice, there is great glory: but when the wicked rise, a man is hidden.
Psalms 97 6 The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the people see his glory.
Jeremiah 12 1 Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
Proverbs 11 21 Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.
Psalms 37 32 The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.
Proverbs 13 21 Evil pursueth sinners: but to the righteous good shall be repayed.
Psalms 34 7 The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.
Psalms 147 6 The LORD lifteth up the meek: he casteth the wicked down to the ground.
Ezekiel 33 9 Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
Isaiah 51 11 Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.
2 Chronicles 6 23 Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness.
Psalms 32 10 Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall compass him about.
Proverbs 16 6 By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil.
Proverbs 28 28 When the wicked rise, men hide themselves: but when they perish, the righteous increase.
Proverbs 25 26 A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.
Psalms 125 3 For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity.
Ezekiel 18 21 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Psalms 71 4 Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.
Proverbs 11 23 The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.
Psalms 94 15 But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it.
Proverbs 29 2 When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.