◄ Proverbs 16:4 ►
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Good News Translation
Everything the LORD has made has its destiny; and the destiny of the wicked is destruction.

New Revised Standard Version
The LORD has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble.

Contemporary English Version
The LORD has a reason for everything he does, and he lets evil people live only to be punished.

New American Bible
The LORD has made everything for a purpose, even the wicked for the evil day.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The Lord hath made all things for himself: the wicked also for the evil day.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The Lord hath made all things for himself: the wicked also for the evil day.

Lord

Isaiah 43:7,21 And every one that calleth upon my name, I have created him for my glory. I have formed him, and made him. . . .

Romans 11:36 For of him, and by him, and in him, are all things: to him be glory for ever. Amen.

Revelation 4:11 Thou art worthy, O Lord our God, to receive glory and honour and power. Because thou hast created all things: and for thy will they were and have been created.

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Job 21:30 Because the wicked man is reserved to the day of destruction, and he shall be brought to the day of wrath.

Romans 9:22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath, fitted for destruction,

1 Peter 2:8 And a stone of stumbling and a rock of scandal, to them who stumble at the word, neither do believe, whereunto also they are set.

2 Peter 2:3,9 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you. Whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not: and their perdition slumbereth not. . . .

Context
The Reply of the Tongue is from the LORD
…3Lay open thy works to the Lord: and thy thoughts shall be directed. 4The Lord hath made all things for himself: the wicked also for the evil day.5Every proud man is an abomination to the Lord: though hand should be joined to hand, he is not innocent. The beginning of a good way is to do justice: and this is more acceptable with God, than to offer sacrifices.…
Cross References
Romans 9:22
What if God, willing to shew his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath, fitted for destruction,

Genesis 1:31
And God saw all the things that he had made, and they were very good. And the evening and morning were the sixth day.

Exodus 9:16
And therefore have I raised thee, that I may shew my power in thee, and my name may be spoken of throughout all the earth.

Job 21:30
Because the wicked man is reserved to the day of destruction, and he shall be brought to the day of wrath.

Proverbs 16:5
Every proud man is an abomination to the Lord: though hand should be joined to hand, he is not innocent. The beginning of a good way is to do justice: and this is more acceptable with God, than to offer sacrifices.

Ecclesiastes 3:11
He hath made all things good in their time, and hath delivered the world to their consideration, so that man cannot find out the work which God hath made from the beginning to the end.

Proverbs 16:3
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