Proverbs 21:15 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁵It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.

Proverbs 21:15 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 10:29
The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
Matthew 7:23
And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Matthew 13:41-42
The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; …
Ecclesiastes 3:12
I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.
Isaiah 64:5
Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 15)

Note, 1. It is a pleasure and satisfaction to good men both to see justice administered by the government they live under, right taking place and iniquity suppressed, and also to practise it themselves, according as their sphere is. They no only do justice, but do it with pleasure, not only for fear of shame, but for love of virtue. 2. It is a terror to wicked men to see the laws put in execution…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 15)

15. But the just love right and need no bribes. The wicked at last meet destruction, though for a time happy in concealing corruption.