Proverbs 12:28
In the path of righteousness [is] life, And in the way of [that] path [is] no death!
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no death.
In Context
27The slothful roasteth not his hunting, And the wealth of a diligent man is precious.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 30:15'See, I have set before thee to-day life and good, and death and evil,
Proverbs 8:35For whoso is finding me, hath found life, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.
Proverbs 10:2Treasures of wickedness profit not, And righteousness delivereth from death.
Proverbs 11:19Rightly [is] righteousness for life, And whoso is pursuing evil — for his own death.
Ezekiel 18:20The soul that doth sin — it doth die. A son doth not bear of the iniquity of the father, And a father doth not bear of the iniquity of the son, The righteousness of the righteous is on him, And the wickedness of the wicked is on him.
Romans 6:22And now, having been freed from the sin, and having become servants to God, ye have your fruit — to sanctification, and the end life age-during;
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 →