Proverbs 12:28
In the path of righteousness is life, and in the pathway thereof there is no death.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no death.
In Context
27The slothful roasteth not what he took in hunting; but man's precious substance is to the diligent.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 30:15See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil,
Proverbs 8:35For whoso findeth me findeth life, and obtaineth favour of Jehovah;
Proverbs 10:2Treasures of wickedness profit nothing; but righteousness delivereth from death.
Proverbs 11:19As righteousness [tendeth] to life, so he that pursueth evil [doeth it] to his own death.
Ezekiel 18:20The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
Romans 6:22But *now*, having got your freedom from sin, and having become bondmen to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end 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 →