Proverbs 11:30
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that wins souls is wise.
Updated King James Version
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 recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.
Cross References
Proverbs 3:18She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retains her.
Proverbs 15:4A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
Matthew 4:19And he says unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.
John 4:36And he that reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit unto life eternal: that both he that sows and he that reaps may rejoice together.
1 Thessalonians 2:19For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even all of you in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ 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 →