The wages of the righteous are life. The income of the wicked is sin.
Proverbs 12:28 - Tree of Life Version In the path of righteousness is life— it is a path to immortality. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 In the way of righteousness is life; And in the pathway thereof there is no death. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Life is in the way of righteousness (moral and spiritual rectitude in every area and relation), and in its pathway there is no death but immortality (perpetual, eternal life). [John 3:36; 4:36; 8:51; 11:26; I Cor. 15:54; Gal. 6:8.] American Standard Version (1901) In the way of righteousness is life; And in the pathway thereof there is no death. Common English Bible The way of the righteous leads to life, but the detestable path leads to death. Catholic Public Domain Version In the path of justice, there is life. But the devious way leads to death. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version In the path of justice is life: but the by-way leadeth to death. |
The wages of the righteous are life. The income of the wicked is sin.
Ill-gotten treasures profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.
Steadfast righteousness leads to life, but pursuing evil ends in death.
For through me your days will be many and years will be added to your life.
Now to this people you will say, thus says Adonai: “Look, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.
walks in My laws and keeps My statutes, behaving honestly. Such a person is just—he will surely live.” It is a declaration of Adonai.
so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness, to eternal life through Messiah Yeshua our Lord.
“I call the heavens and the earth to witness about you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore choose life so that you and your descendants may live,
he said to them, “Put in your hearts all the words that I call as witness against you today—that you may command your children to keep and do all the words of this Torah.
If you know that He is righteous, you also know that everyone who does what is right is born of Him.
Children, let no one mislead you! The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as Yeshua is righteous.
Loved ones, do not imitate what is evil but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does evil has not seen God.