Proverbs 11:19 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁹ He who is steadfast in righteousness will live, but he who pursues evil will die.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ As righteousness tendeth to life: So he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ He who is steadfast in righteousness (uprightness and right standing with God) attains to life, but he who pursues evil does it to his own death.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ He that is stedfast in righteousness shall attain unto life; And he that pursueth evil doeth it to his own death.

Common English Bible

¹⁹ The righteous are headed toward life, but those who pursue evil, toward death.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ Clemency prepares life. And the pursuit of evils prepares death.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁹ Clemency prepareth life: and the pursuing of evil things, death.

Proverbs 11:19 Cross References

2 Kings 1:16

and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, ‘Because you have sent messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron,—is it because there is no God in Israel to inquire of his word?—therefore you shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone, but you shall surely die.’ ”

2 Kings 1:4

Now therefore thus says the Lord, ‘You shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone, but you shall surely die.’ ” So Elijah went.

Proverbs 10:16

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

Proverbs 11:4

Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

Proverbs 12:28

In the path of righteousness is life, but the way of error leads to death.

Proverbs 19:23

The fear of the Lord leads to life; and he who has it rests satisfied; he will not be visited by harm.

Proverbs 21:16

A man who wanders from the way of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead.

Proverbs 21:21

He who pursues righteousness and kindness will find life and honor.

Proverbs 8:36

but he who misses me injures himself; all who hate me love death.”

Acts 10:35

but in every nation any one who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.

Romans 6:23

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Deuteronomy 16:20

Justice, and only justice, you shall follow, that you may live and inherit the land which the Lord your God gives you.

James 1:15

Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin; and sin when it is full-grown brings forth death.

1 John 3:10

By this it may be seen who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not do right is not of God, nor he who does not love his brother.

1 John 3:7

Little children, let no one deceive you. He who does right is righteous, as he is righteous.