Proverbs 12:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² The wicked covet the proceeds of wickedness, but the root of the righteous bears fruit.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² The wicked desireth the net of evil men: But the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² The wicked desire the booty of evil men, but the root of the [uncompromisingly] righteous yields [richer fruitage].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² The wicked desireth the net of evil men; But the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit.

Common English Bible

¹² Desiring evil is a trap for the wicked, but the root of the righteous endures.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² The desire of the impious is the fortification of what is most wicked. But the root of the just shall prosper.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² The desire of the wicked is the fortification of evil men: but the root of the just shall prosper.

Proverbs 12:12 Cross References

Psalm 1:3

They are like trees planted by streams of water, which yield their fruit in its season, and their leaves do not wither. In all that they do, they prosper.

Psalm 10:9

they lurk in secret like a lion in its den; they lurk that they may seize the poor; they seize the poor and drag them off in their net.

Psalm 9:15

The nations have sunk in the pit that they made; in the net that they hid has their own foot been caught.

Proverbs 10:15

The wealth of the rich is their fortress; the poverty of the poor is their ruin.

Proverbs 11:30

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and the wise capture souls.

Proverbs 21:10

The souls of the wicked desire evil; their neighbors find no mercy in their eyes.

Isaiah 27:6

In days to come Jacob shall take root; Israel shall blossom and put forth shoots and fill the whole world with fruit.

Isaiah 37:31

The surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward,

Micah 7:2

The faithful have disappeared from the land, and there is no one left who is upright; they all lie in wait for blood, and they hunt each other with nets.

John 15:16

You did not choose me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name.

John 15:5

I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing.

Romans 6:22

But now that you have been freed from sin and enslaved to God, the fruit you have leads to sanctification, and the end is eternal life.