Proverbs 11:30
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who wins souls is wise.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.
In Context
31If the righteous receive their due on earth, how much more the ungodly and the sinner!
Cross References
Proverbs 3:18She is a tree of life to those who embrace her, and those who lay hold of her are blessed.
Proverbs 15:4A soothing tongue is a tree of life, but a perverse tongue crushes the spirit.
Matthew 4:19“Come, follow Me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men.”
John 4:36Already the reaper draws his wages and gathers a crop for eternal life, so that both the sower and the reaper may rejoice together.
1 Thessalonians 2:19After all, who is our hope, our joy, our crown of boasting, if it is not you yourselves in the presence of 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 →