Proverbs 11:18 - The Scriptures 1998

¹⁸ The wrong one earns false wages, But the one sowing righteousness, a true 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.

Proverbs 11:18 Cross References

Exodus 1:20

So Elohim was good to the midwives, and the people increased and became very numerous.

Proverbs 1:18

But they lie in wait for their own blood, They ambush their own lives.

Proverbs 10:16

The wage of the righteous is for life, The increase of the wrong is for sin.

Proverbs 22:8

He who sows unrighteousness reaps trouble, And the rod of his wrath perishes.

Proverbs 5:22

The wrong one is entrapped In his own crookednesses, And he is caught in the cords of his sin.

Ecclesiastes 10:8

He who digs a pit falls into it, and whoever breaks through a wall is bitten by a snake.

Hosea 10:2

Their heart has been slippery, now they are guilty. He breaks down their altars, He destroys their pillars.

John 4:36

“He who is reaping receives a reward, and gathers fruit for everlasting life, so that both he who is sowing and he who is reaping rejoice together.

Ephesians 4:22

that you put off – with regard to your former way of life – the old man, being corrupted according to the desires of the deceit,

James 3:18

And the fruit of righteousnessis sown in peace by those who make peace.