Proverbs 12:28
In the way of righteousness is life: and in the pathway thereof there is no death.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no death.
In Context
Cross References
Deuteronomy 30:15See, I have set before you this day life and good, and death and evil;
Proverbs 8:35For whoso finds me finds life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD.
Proverbs 10:2Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivers from death.
Proverbs 11:19As righteousness tends to life: so he that pursues evil pursues it to his own death.
Ezekiel 18:20The soul that sins, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
Romans 6:22But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, all of you have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
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 →