Proverbs 12:14

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

From the fruit of his words a man is satisfied with good, and the work of a man's hand comes back to him.

Cross References

Job 34:11

For according to the work of a man he will requite him, and according to his ways he will make it befall him.

Psalm 63:5

My soul is feasted as with marrow and fat, and my mouth praises thee with joyful lips,

Proverbs 1:31

therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way and be sated with their own devices.

Proverbs 13:2

From the fruit of his mouth a good man eats good, but the desire of the treacherous is for violence.

Proverbs 14:14

A perverse man will be filled with the fruit of his ways, and a good man with the fruit of his deeds.

Proverbs 15:23

To make an apt answer is a joy to a man, and a word in season, how good it is!

Proverbs 19:17

He who is kind to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed.

Proverbs 24:12

If you say, “Behold, we did not know this,” does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it, and will he not requite man according to his work?

Proverbs 5:22

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

Jeremiah 17:10

“I the Lord search the mind and try the heart, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”

Jeremiah 21:14

I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, says the Lord; I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all that is round about her.”

Hosea 4:9

And it shall be like people, like priest; I will punish them for their ways, and requite them for their deeds.

Matthew 16:27

For the Son of man is to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay every man for what he has done.

Hebrews 11:26

He considered abuse suffered for the Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he looked to the reward.

Hebrews 2:2

For if the message declared by angels was valid and every transgression or disobedience received a just retribution,