Proverbs 11:18 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁸ A wicked man earns deceptive wages, but one who sows righteousness gets a sure reward.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ The wicked worketh a deceitful work: But to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ The wicked man earns deceitful wages, but he who sows righteousness (moral and spiritual rectitude in every area and relation) shall have a sure reward [permanent and satisfying]. [Hos. 10:12; Gal. 6:8, 9; James 3:18.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ The wicked earneth deceitful wages; But he that soweth righteousness hath a sure reward.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ The wicked earn false wages, but those who sow righteousness receive a true reward.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ The impious does work with inconstancy. But for the sower of justice, there is the reward of faithfulness.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ The wicked maketh an unsteady work: but to him that soweth justice, there is a faithful reward.

Proverbs 11:18 Cross References

Exodus 1:20

So God dealt well with the midwives; and the people multiplied and grew very strong.

Proverbs 1:18

but these men lie in wait for their own blood, they set an ambush for their own lives.

Proverbs 10:16

The wage of the righteous leads to life, the gain of the wicked to sin.

Proverbs 22:8

He who sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of his fury will fail.

Proverbs 5:22

The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is caught in the toils of his sin.

Ecclesiastes 10:8

He who digs a pit will fall into it; and a serpent will bite him who breaks through a wall.

Hosea 10:2

Their heart is false; now they must bear their guilt. The Lord will break down their altars, and destroy their pillars.

John 4:36

He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together.

Ephesians 4:22

Put off your old nature which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful lusts,

James 3:18

And the harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.