Proverbs 11:30
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.
World Messianic 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
31Behold, the righteous shall be repaid on the earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner!
Cross References
Proverbs 3:18She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.
Proverbs 15:4A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.
Matthew 4:19He said to them, “Come after me, and I will make you fishers for men.”
John 4:36He who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit to eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.
1 Thessalonians 2:19For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Yeshua 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 →