Proverbs 11:19 - New Revised Standard Version Whoever is steadfast in righteousness will live, but whoever pursues evil will die. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 As righteousness tendeth to life: So he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition He who is steadfast in righteousness (uprightness and right standing with God) attains to life, but he who pursues evil does it to his own death. American Standard Version (1901) He that is stedfast in righteousness shall attain unto life; And he that pursueth evil doeth it to his own death. Common English Bible The righteous are headed toward life, but those who pursue evil, toward death. Catholic Public Domain Version Clemency prepares life. And the pursuit of evils prepares death. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Clemency prepareth life: and the pursuing of evil things, death. |
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.”
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.
The wage of the righteous leads to life, the gain of the wicked to sin.
Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
In the path of righteousness there is life, in walking its path there is no death.
The fear of the Lord is life indeed; filled with it one rests secure and suffers no harm.
Whoever wanders from the way of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead.
but those who miss me injure themselves; all who hate me love death.”
but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Justice, and only justice, you shall pursue, so that you may live and occupy the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
then, when that desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin, and that sin, when it is fully grown, gives birth to death.
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 their brothers and sisters.
Little children, let no one deceive you. Everyone who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous.