“The righteous will never be removed, but the wicked will not dwell in the land.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Proverbs 10 contains 32 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.