Proverbs 10:16 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹⁶ 3 A fool worketh mischief as it were for sport: but wisdom is prudence to a man.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: The fruit of the wicked to sin.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ 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)

¹⁶ The labor of the righteous tendeth to life; The increase of the wicked, to sin.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ The wages of the righteous lead to life; the earnings of the wicked lead to sin.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ The work of the just is unto life. But the fruit of the impious is unto sin.

Proverbs 10:16 Cross References

Proverbs 11:30

The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood: the mouth of the just shall deliver them.

Proverbs 21:21

8 A lying witness shall perish: an obedient man shall speak of victory.

Matthew 15:19

7 But she said: Yea, Lord; for the whelps also eat of the crumbs that fall from the table of their masters.

John 6:27

5 And Jesus said to them: I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall not hunger: and he that believeth in me shall never thirst.

Romans 6:23

But sin taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.

1 Corinthians 15:58

For a great door and evident is opened unto me: and many adversaries.

2 Timothy 3:13

But be thou vigilant, labour in all things, do the work of an evangelist, fulfil thy ministry. Be sober.

Hebrews 6:10

9 Which we have as an anchor of the soul, sure and firm, and which entereth in even within the veil;