Proverbs 11:19

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Whoever is steadfast in righteousness will live, but whoever pursues evil will die.

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 leave 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 leave 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 there is life; in walking its path there is no death.

Proverbs 19:23

The fear of the Lord is life indeed; filled with it one rests secure and suffers no harm.

Proverbs 21:16

Whoever wanders from the way of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead.

Proverbs 21:21

Whoever pursues righteousness and kindness will find life and honor.

Proverbs 8:36

but those who miss me injure themselves; all who hate me love death.”

Acts 10:35

but in every people anyone who fears him and practices righteousness 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 pursue, so that you may live and occupy the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

James 1:15

then, when desire has conceived, it engenders sin, and sin, when it is fully grown, gives birth to death.

1 John 3:10

The children of God and the children of the devil are revealed in this way: all who do not do what is right are not from God, nor are those who do not love a brother or sister.

1 John 3:7

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