Proverbs 12:28
In the ways of righteousness is life; but the ways of those that remember injuries lead to death.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no death.
In Context
27A deceitful man shall catch no game; but a + 12:27 Gr. pure.blameless man is a precious possession.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 30:15Behold, I have set before thee this day life and death, good and evil.
Proverbs 8:35For my outgoings are the outgoings of life, and in them is prepared favour from the Lord.
Proverbs 10:2Treasures shall not profit the lawless: but righteousness shall deliver from death.
Proverbs 11:19A righteous son is born for life: but the persecution of the ungodly ends in death.
Ezekiel 18:20But the soul that sins shall die: and the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, nor shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the iniquity of the transgressor shall be upon him.
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 →