Proverbs 11:30
The fruit of a righteous man is a tree of life, and he who is wise wins souls.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.
In Context
Cross References
Proverbs 3:18She is a tree of life to those who lay hold upon her. And happy is everyone who retains her.
Proverbs 15:4A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it is a breaking of the spirit.
Matthew 4:19And he says to them, Come behind me, and I will make you fishermen of men.
John 4:36And he who reaps receives a wage and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.
1 Thessalonians 2:19For what is our hope or joy or crown of boast? Or is it not even ye, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 11:30
29 He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart. Two extremes in the management of family-affairs are here condemned and the ill consequences of them foretold:—1. Carefulness and carnal policy, on the one hand. There are those that by their extreme earnestness in pursuit of the world, their anxiety about their business and fretfulness about their losses, their strictness with their servants and their niggardliness towards their families, trouble their… Read the whole commentary →