Proverbs 11:18 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁸ The wicked earneth deceitful wages: But he that soweth righteousness hath 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

And God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.

Proverbs 1:18

And these lay wait for their own blood, They lurk privily for their own lives.

Proverbs 10:16

The labour of the righteous tendeth to life; The increase of the wicked to sin.

Proverbs 22:8

He that soweth iniquity shall reap calamity: And the rod of his wrath shall fail.

Proverbs 5:22

His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.

Ecclesiastes 10:8

He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh through a fence, a serpent shall bite him.

Hosea 10:2

Their heart is divided; now shall they be found guilty: he shall smite their altars, he shall spoil their pillars.

John 4:36

He that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal; that he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.

Ephesians 4:22

that ye put away, as concerning your former manner of life, the old man, which waxeth corrupt after the lusts of deceit;

James 3:18

And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace for them that make peace.