Proverbs 10:23

Proverbs 10:23
It is sport to the foolish man to do evil, but the man of good sense takes delight in wisdom.

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Judges 1:18
Then Judah took Gaza and its limit, and Ashkelon and its limit, and Ekron and its limit.

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2 Samuel 2:17
And there was hard fighting that day; and Abner and the men of Israel gave way before the servants of David.

2 Samuel 2:26
Then crying out to Joab, Abner said, Are fighting and destruction to go on for ever? do you not see that the end will only be bitter? how long will it be before you send the people back and make them give up attacking their countrymen?

2 Samuel 2:27
And Joab said, By the living God, if you had not given the word, the people would have gone on attacking their countrymen till the morning.

Proverbs 13:10
The only effect of pride is fighting; but wisdom is with the quiet in spirit.

Proverbs 15:15
All the days of the troubled are evil; but he whose heart is glad has an unending feast.

Proverbs 20:18
Every purpose is put into effect by wise help: and by wise guiding make war.

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Job 15:16
How much less one who is disgusting and unclean, a man who takes in evil like water!

Job 34:7
What man is like Job, a man who freely makes sport of God,

Job 34:8
And goes in the company of evil-doers, walking in the way of sinners?

Job 34:9
For he has said, It is no profit to a man to take delight in God.

Proverbs 30:20
This is the way of a false wife; she takes food, and, cleaning her mouth, says, I have done no wrong.

Ephesians 5:4
And let there be no low behaviour, or foolish talk, or words said in sport, which are not right, but in place of them the giving of praise.

2 Thessalonians 2:12
So that they all may be judged, who had no faith in what is true, but took pleasure in evil.

2 Peter 2:13
For the evil which overtakes them is the reward of their evil-doing: such men take their pleasure in the delights of the flesh even in the daytime; they are like the marks of a disease, like poisoned wounds among you, feasting together with you in joy;

Jude 1:18
How they said to you, In the last days there will be men who, guided by their evil desires, will make sport of holy things.

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Job 17:11
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the desires of my heart.

Proverbs 24:9
The purpose of the foolish is sin: and the hater of authority is disgusting to others.

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Job 23:12
I have never gone against the orders of his lips; the words of his mouth have been stored up in my heart.

Psalms 119:103
How sweet are your sayings to my taste! truly, they are sweeter than honey in my mouth!

Proverbs 21:15
It is a joy to the good man to do right, but it is destruction to the workers of evil.

Jeremiah 10:23
O Lord, I am conscious that a man's way is not in himself: man has no power of guiding his steps.

Romans 7:22
In my heart I take pleasure in the law of God,

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Job 28:28
And he said to man, Truly the fear of the Lord is wisdom, and to keep from evil is the way to knowledge.

Proverbs 1:2
To have knowledge of wise teaching; to be clear about the words of reason:

Proverbs 1:7
The fear of the Lord is the start of knowledge: but the foolish have no use for wisdom and teaching.

Proverbs 12:23
A sharp man keeps back his knowledge; but the heart of foolish men makes clear their foolish thoughts.

Proverbs 13:16
A sharp man does everything with knowledge, but a foolish man makes clear his foolish thoughts.

Proverbs 20:3
It is an honour for a man to keep from fighting, but the foolish are ever at war.

Hebrews 5:14
But solid food is for men of full growth, even for those whose senses are trained by use to see what is good and what is evil.

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Proverbs 4:16
For they take no rest till they have done evil; their sleep is taken away if they have not been the cause of someone's fall.

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Proverbs 10:28
The hope of the upright man will give joy, but the waiting of the evil-doer will have its end in sorrow.

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Proverbs 21:10
The desire of the evil-doer is fixed on evil: he has no kind feeling for his neighbour.

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Proverbs 30:3
I have not got wisdom by teaching, so that I might have the knowledge of the Holy One.

Proverbs 30:4
Who has gone up to heaven and come down? who has taken the winds in his hands, prisoning the waters in his robe? by whom have all the ends of the earth been fixed? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if you are able to say?

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Ecclesiastes 7:4
The hearts of the wise are in the house of weeping; but the hearts of the foolish are in the house of joy.

Hosea 7:5
On the day of our king, the rulers made him ill with the heat of wine; his hand was stretched out with the men of pride.

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Ecclesiastes 11:9
Have joy, O young man, while you are young; and let your heart be glad in the days of your strength, and go in the ways of your heart, and in the desire of your eyes; but be certain that for all these things God will be your judge.

Habakkuk 1:15
He takes them all up with his hook, he takes them in his net, getting them together in his fishing-net: for which cause he is glad and full of joy.

Zephaniah 3:11
In that day you will have no shame on account of all the things in which you did evil against me: for then I will take away from among you those who were lifted up in pride, and you will no longer be lifted up with pride in my holy mountain.

John 16:20
Truly I say to you, You will be weeping and sorrowing, but the world will be glad: you will be sad, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.

James 4:16
But now you go on glorying in your pride: and all such glorying is evil.

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Jeremiah 9:1
If only my head was a stream of waters and my eyes fountains of weeping, so that I might go on weeping day and night for the dead of the daughter of my people!

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