Proverbs 14:14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁴ The perverse get what their ways deserve, and the good, what their deeds deserve.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: And a good man shall be satisfied from himself.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ The backslider in heart [from God and from fearing God] shall be filled with [the fruit of] his own ways, and a good man shall be satisfied with [the fruit of] his ways [with the holy thoughts and actions which his heart prompts and in which he delights].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways; And a good man shall be satisfied from himself.

Common English Bible

¹⁴ Rebellious hearts receive satisfaction from their ways; the good receive the due reward for their deeds.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ The foolish will be filled up by his own ways. And the good man shall be above him.

Proverbs 14:14 Cross References

Galatians 6:8

If you sow to your own flesh, you will reap corruption from the flesh, but if you sow to the Spirit, you will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

Proverbs 12:14

From the fruit of the mouth one is filled with good things, and manual labor has its reward.

Hebrews 3:12

Take care, brothers and sisters, that none of you may have an evil, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.

Jeremiah 8:5

Why then has this people turned away in perpetual faithlessness? They have held fast to deceit; they have refused to return.

Galatians 6:4

All must test their own work; then that work, rather than their neighbor’s work, will become a cause for pride.

John 4:14

but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.”

Jeremiah 2:19

Your wickedness will punish you, and your faithlessness will convict you. Know and see that it is evil and bitter for you to forsake the Lord your God; the fear of me is not in you, says the Lord God of hosts.

Zephaniah 1:6

those who have turned back from following the Lord, who have not sought the Lord or inquired of him.

Jeremiah 17:5

Thus says the Lord: Cursed are those who trust in mere mortals and make mere flesh their strength, whose hearts turn away from the Lord.

Proverbs 14:10

The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares its joy.

2 Corinthians 1:12

Indeed, this is our boast, the testimony of our conscience: we have behaved in the world with holiness and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God—and all the more toward you.

Hosea 4:16

Like a stubborn heifer, Israel is stubborn; can the Lord now feed them like a lamb in a broad pasture?

Ezekiel 22:31

Therefore I have poured out my indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath; I have returned their conduct upon their heads, says the Lord God.

Psalm 109:17

He loved to curse; let curses come on him. He did not like blessing; may it be far from him.

Proverbs 9:12

If you are wise, you are wise for yourself; if you scoff, you alone will bear it.

Proverbs 12:21

No harm happens to the righteous, but the wicked are filled with trouble.

Proverbs 14:15

The simple believe everything, but the clever consider their steps.

Proverbs 18:20

From the fruit of the mouth one’s stomach is satisfied; the yield of the lips brings satisfaction.