Proverbs 12:28 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²⁸ In the way of righteousness is life; And in the pathway thereof there is no death.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁸ In the way of righteousness is life; And in the pathway thereof there is no death.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁸ Life is in the way of righteousness (moral and spiritual rectitude in every area and relation), and in its pathway there is no death but immortality (perpetual, eternal life). [John 3:36; 4:36; 8:51; 11:26; I Cor. 15:54; Gal. 6:8.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁸ In the way of righteousness is life; And in the pathway thereof there is no death.

Common English Bible

²⁸ The way of the righteous leads to life, but the detestable path leads to death.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁸ In the path of justice, there is life. But the devious way leads to death.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁸ In the path of justice is life: but the by-way leadeth to death.

Proverbs 12:28 Cross References

Proverbs 10:16

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

Proverbs 10:2

Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: But righteousness delivereth from death.

Proverbs 11:19

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

Proverbs 8:35

For whoso findeth me findeth life, And shall obtain favour of the LORD.

Proverbs 9:11

For by me thy days shall be multiplied, And the years of thy life shall be increased.

Jeremiah 21:8

And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the LORD: Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.

Ezekiel 18:9

hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my judgements, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord GOD

Romans 5:21

that, as sin reigned in death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Deuteronomy 30:15

See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;

Deuteronomy 30:19

I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before thee life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that thou mayest live, thou and thy seed:

Deuteronomy 32:46

And he said unto them, Set your heart unto all the words which I testify unto you this day; which ye shall command your children, to observe to do all the words of this law.

1 John 2:29

If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one also that doeth righteousness is begotten of him.

1 John 3:7

My little children, let no man lead you astray: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous:

3 John 1:11

Beloved, imitate not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: he that doeth evil hath not seen God.