Proverbs 12:28 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

²⁸ In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no death.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁸ In the way of righteousness is life; And in the pathway thereof there is no death.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁸ Life is in the way of righteousness (moral and spiritual rectitude in every area and relation), and in its pathway there is no death but immortality (perpetual, eternal life). [John 3:36; 4:36; 8:51; 11:26; I Cor. 15:54; Gal. 6:8.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁸ In the way of righteousness is life; And in the pathway thereof there is no death.

Common English Bible

²⁸ The way of the righteous leads to life, but the detestable path leads to death.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁸ In the path of justice, there is life. But the devious way leads to death.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁸ In the path of justice is life: but the by-way leadeth to death.

Proverbs 12:28 Cross References

Proverbs 10:16

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

Proverbs 10:2

Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.

Proverbs 11:19

As righteousness tendeth to life; so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.

Proverbs 8:35

For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favor of the Lord.

Proverbs 9:11

For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.

Jeremiah 21:8

And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.

Ezekiel 18:9

hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my judgments, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord God.

Romans 5:21

that as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.

Deuteronomy 30:15

See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;

Deuteronomy 30:19

I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

Deuteronomy 32:46

and he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.

1 John 2:29

If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.

1 John 3:7

Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

3 John 1:11

Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.