Proverbs 10:27 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁷ The fear of the Lord prolongs life, but the years of the wicked will be short.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁷ The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: But the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁷ The reverent and worshipful fear of the Lord prolongs one's days, but the years of the wicked shall be made short.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁷ The fear of Jehovah prolongeth days; But the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

Common English Bible

²⁷ The fear of the LORD increases one’s life, but the years of the wicked will be cut short.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁷ The fear of the Lord adds days. And the years of the impious will be shortened.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁷ The fear of the Lord shall prolong days: and the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

Proverbs 10:27 Cross References

Psalm 21:4

He asked you for life; you gave it to him— length of days forever and ever.

Psalm 55:23

But you, O God, will cast them down into the lowest pit; the bloodthirsty and treacherous shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in you.

Psalm 91:16

With long life I will satisfy them and show them my salvation.

Psalm 92:15

showing that the Lord is upright; he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

Proverbs 14:27

The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, so that one may avoid the snares of death.

Proverbs 28:18

One who walks in integrity will be safe, but whoever follows crooked ways will fall into the Pit.

Proverbs 3:16

Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.

Proverbs 3:2

for length of days and years of life and abundant welfare they will give you.

Proverbs 9:11

For by me your days will be multiplied, and years will be added to your life.

Ecclesiastes 7:17

Do not be too wicked, and do not be a fool; why should you die before your time?

Jeremiah 17:11

Like the partridge hatching what it did not lay, so are all who amass wealth unjustly; in midlife it will leave them, and at their end they will prove to be fools.

Luke 12:20

But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’

Deuteronomy 11:9

and so that you may live long in the land that the Lord swore to your ancestors to give them and to their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.