Proverbs 12:28
In the path of justice, there is life. But the devious way leads to death.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no death.
In Context
27The dishonest will not discover gain. But the substance of a man will be like precious gold.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 30:15Consider what I have set forth in your sight this day, life and good, or, on the opposite side, death and evil,
Proverbs 8:35He who finds me, finds life, and he will draw salvation from the Lord.
Proverbs 10:2Treasures of impiety will profit nothing. Truly, justice shall liberate from death.
Proverbs 11:19Clemency prepares life. And the pursuit of evils prepares death.
Ezekiel 18:20The soul that sins, the same shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, and the father shall not bear the iniquity of the son. The justice of the just man shall be upon himself, but the impiety of the impious man shall be upon himself.
Romans 6:22Yet truly, having been freed now from sin, and having been made servants of God, you hold your fruit in sanctification, and truly its end is eternal life.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 12:28
27 The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man is precious. Here is, 1. That which may make us hate slothfulness and deceit, for the word here, as before, signifies both: The slothful deceitful man has roast meat, but that which he roasts is not what he himself took in hunting, no, it is what others took pains for, and he lives upon the fruit of their labours, like the drones in the hive. Or, if slothful deceitful men have taken any thing by hunting (as… Read the whole commentary →