Proverbs 10:16 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

The labour of the righteous tendeth to life; The increase of the wicked to sin.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: The fruit of the wicked to sin.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

The earnings of the righteous (the upright, in right standing with God) lead to life, but the profit of the wicked leads to further sin. [Rom. 6:21; I Tim. 6:10.]

American Standard Version (1901)

The labor of the righteous tendeth to life; The increase of the wicked, to sin.

Common English Bible

The wages of the righteous lead to life; the earnings of the wicked lead to sin.

Catholic Public Domain Version

The work of the just is unto life. But the fruit of the impious is unto sin.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

The work of the just is unto life: but the fruit of the wicked, unto sin.

Proverbs 10:16 Cross References

Proverbs 11:30

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; And he that is wise winneth souls.

Proverbs 21:21

He that followeth after righteousness and mercy Findeth life, righteousness, and honour.

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, railings:

John 6:27

Work not for the meat which perisheth, but for the meat which abideth unto eternal life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him the Father, even God, hath sealed.

Romans 6:23

For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

1 Corinthians 15:58

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not vain in the Lord.

2 Timothy 3:13

But evil men and impostors shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

Hebrews 6:10

for God is not unrighteous to forget your work and the love which ye shewed toward his name, in that ye ministered unto the saints, and still do minister.