Proverbs 10:16
If you are righteous, your reward will be a good life, but all that sinful people gain is to sin more.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.
In Context
Cross References
Proverbs 11:30Those who live righteously will live for a long time, but those who act violently will destroy their own lives (OR, those who are wise will have many people come and live with them).
Isaiah 3:10Yahweh told me to tell the righteous people that good things will happen to them; they will enjoy the blessings that they will receive for their good deeds.
Matthew 12:33“Think about this: You can know whether a person is good and what that person says is good, in the same way that you can know whether a tree [MET] and the fruit it produces [MET] are good. You can also know whether a person and what that person says is evil in the same way that you can know whether a tree [MET] and its fruit [MET] are blighted. You can know whether a tree is good by seeing its fruit, and similarly people can know the evil character of you Pharisees by listening to your accusations against me.
John 6:27Stop desiring food that will soon spoil! Instead, desire to get spiritual food that will last forever! Yearn for eternal life! That is what I, the one who came from heaven, will give you. God my Father has shown that he approves of me enabling me to do that.”
1 Corinthians 15:58So, my fellow believers whom I love, continue to hold strongly to the things that you believe. Do not let anything cause you to doubt them. Always be doing enthusiastically the work that the Lord gives you. And remember that the work that you do for the Lord is never ◄in vain/useless►, as it would be if God will not cause us to live again after we die.
2 Timothy 2:17and because their message will harm people [SIM] like gangrene/cancer does. You know Hymenaeus and Philetus. They are two such people who talk in this manner.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 10:16
15 The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty. This may be taken two ways:—1. As a reason why we should be diligent in our business, that we may avoid that sinking dispiriting uneasiness which attends poverty, and may enjoy the benefit and comfort which those have that are beforehand in the world. Taking pains is really the way to make ourselves and our families easy. Or, rather, 2. As a representation of the common mistakes both of rich and poor, concerning their… Read the whole commentary →