Proverbs 10:27

Bible in Basic English 1965

The fear of the Lord gives long life, but the years of the evil-doer will be cut short.

Cross References

Psalm 21:4

He made request to you for life, and you gave it to him, long life for ever and ever.

Psalm 55:23

But you, O God, will send them down into the underworld; the cruel and the false will be cut off before half their days are ended; but I will have faith in you.

Psalm 91:16

With long life will he be rewarded; and I will let him see my salvation.

Psalm 92:15

For a sign that the Lord is upright; he is my Rock, there is no deceit in him.

Proverbs 14:27

The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, by which one may be turned from the nets of death.

Proverbs 28:18

He whose ways are upright will be safe, but sudden will be the fall of him whose ways are twisted.

Proverbs 3:16

Long life is in her right hand, and in her left are wealth and honour.

Proverbs 3:2

For they will give you increase of days, years of life, and peace.

Proverbs 9:11

For by me your days will be increased, and the years of your life will be long.

Ecclesiastes 7:17

Be not evil overmuch, and be not foolish. Why come to your end before your time?

Jeremiah 17:11

Like the partridge, getting eggs together but not producing young, is a man who gets wealth but not by right; before half his days are ended, it will go from him, and at his end he will be foolish.

Luke 12:20

But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?

Deuteronomy 11:9

And that your days may be long in the land which the Lord gave by an oath to your fathers and to their seed after them, a land flowing with milk and honey.