Cross references

Proverbs 12:2

The good man obtains favor from the LORD,

but the LORD condemns a man who devises evil.

Proverbs 12:2 BSB

Proverbs 12:2 has 9 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 6 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Proverbs 8:35 (11 votes) and Acts 11:24 (9 votes). 11 other verses point back to it. It links with 9 other books, from Genesis 6 to Romans 5.

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Which verses does Proverbs 12:2 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. For whoever finds me finds life and obtains the favor of the LORD.

  2. Acts 11:249 votes

    Barnabas was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and faith, and a great number of people were brought to the Lord.

  3. It is well with the man who is generous and lends freely, whose affairs are guided by justice.

  4. Romans 5:75 votes

    Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die.

  5. So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

  6. No longer will a fool be called noble, nor a scoundrel be respected. For a fool speaks foolishness; his mind plots iniquity. He practices ungodliness and speaks falsely about the LORD; he leaves the hungry empty and deprives the thirsty of drink. …

  7. Psalm 9:153 votes

    The nations have fallen into a pit of their making; their feet are caught in the net they have hidden.

  8. a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that run swiftly to evil,

  9. As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.

Which verses point to Proverbs 12:2?

The 10 strongest of 11.