Proverbs 11:18

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A wicked man earns deceptive wages, but one who sows righteousness gets a sure reward.

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He who digs a pit will fall into it; and a serpent will bite him who breaks through a wall.

And the harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

He who sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of his fury will fail.

but these men lie in wait for their own blood, they set an ambush for their own lives.

The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is caught in the toils of his sin.

Put off your old nature which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful lusts,

He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together.

So God dealt well with the midwives; and the people multiplied and grew very strong.

The wage of the righteous leads to life, the gain of the wicked to sin.

Their heart is false; now they must bear their guilt. The Lord will break down their altars, and destroy their pillars.