Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Proverbs 21:12, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- Psalms 37:35
I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
- Proverbs 14:11
The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.
- 2 Peter 3:6
Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
- Psalms 107:43
Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD.
- Amos 4:11
I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned un…
- 1 Corinthians 10:5
But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
- Job 8:15
He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.
- Proverbs 14:32
The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.
- Job 5:3
I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
- 2 Peter 2:4
For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
- Psalms 52:5
God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the livi…
- Hosea 14:9
Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in the…
More to meet God in Proverbs
How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.