Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.
Bible References
Labour
John 6:27
Labor not for the food that perishes, but the food that abideth unto eternal life, which the Son of man gives to you: for this God the Father hath sealed.
1 Corinthians 15:58
So, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
Galatians 6:7
Be not deceived; God is not mocked. For whatsoever a man may sow, that shall he also reap:
Hebrews 6:10
For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and the divine love which you manifested in his name, having ministered to the saints, and ministering.
The fruit
Matthew 7:17
So every good tree produces good fruits; and a corrupt tree produces evil fruits.
Matthew 12:33
Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by the fruit.
Matthew 15:19
For out of the heart proceed evil reasonings, murders, fornications, adulteries, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.
Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord,
2 Timothy 2:17
and their word like gangrene will have eating. Of whom are Hymenaeus and Phyletus;
2 Timothy 3:13
But wicked men and seducers will wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.