Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The labour of the ungodly prospereth not; but he that showeth righteousness, shall receive a sure reward.

New American Standard Bible

The wicked earns deceptive wages,
But he who sows righteousness gets a true reward.

King James Version

The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward.

Holman Bible

The wicked man earns an empty wage,
but the one who sows righteousness, a true reward.

International Standard Version

Evil people earn deceptive wages, but those who plant righteousness are truly rewarded.

A Conservative Version

A wicked man earns deceitful wages, but he who sows righteousness [has] a sure reward.

American Standard Version

The wicked earneth deceitful wages; But he that soweth righteousness hath a sure reward.

Amplified


The wicked man earns deceptive wages,
But he who sows righteousness and lives his life with integrity will have a true reward [that is both permanent and satisfying].

Bible in Basic English

The sinner gets the payment of deceit; but his reward is certain who puts in the seed of righteousness.

Darby Translation

The wicked worketh a deceitful work; but he that soweth righteousness hath a sure reward.

Julia Smith Translation

The unjust one did a work of falsehood: and the seed of justice the reward of truth.

King James 2000

The wicked works a deceitful work: but to him that sows righteousness shall be a sure reward.

Lexham Expanded Bible

The wicked earns {deceptive gain}, but he who sows righteousness, a {true reward}.

Modern King James verseion

The wicked makes a deceitful wage; but one sowing righteousness has a sure reward.

NET Bible

The wicked person earns deceitful wages, but the one who sows righteousness reaps a genuine reward.

New Heart English Bible

Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.

The Emphasized Bible

The lawless man, earneth the wages of falsehood, but, he that soweth righteousness, hath the reward of fidelity.

Webster

The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward.

World English Bible

Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.

Youngs Literal Translation

The wicked is getting a lying wage, And whoso is sowing righteousness -- a true reward.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
רשׁע 
Rasha` 
Usage: 263

שׁקר 
Sheqer 
Usage: 113

פּעלּה 
P@`ullah 
Usage: 14

but to him that soweth
זרע 
Zara` 
Usage: 56

References

Fausets

Context Readings

Proverbs Of Solomon

17 He that hath a gentle liberal stomach is merciful; but whoso hurteth his neighbour, is a tyrant. 18 The labour of the ungodly prospereth not; but he that showeth righteousness, shall receive a sure reward. 19 Like as righteousness bringeth life; even so to cleave unto evil, bringeth death.

Cross References

Hosea 10:12-13

that they might sow unto righteousness, and reap the fruits of well doing: that they might plow up their fresh land and seek the LORD, till he came, and learned them righteousness.

Galatians 6:8-9

He that soweth in his flesh, shall of the flesh reap corruption: but he that soweth in the spirit shall, of the spirit, reap life everlasting.

James 3:18

Yea, and the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace, of them that maintain peace.

Job 27:13-23

saying, 'This is that portion that the wicked shall have of God, and the heritage that Tyrants shall receive of the Almighty'?

Psalm 126:5-6

They that sow in tears, shall reap in joy.

Proverbs 1:18

Yea, they themselves lay wait one for another's blood, and one of them would slay another.

Proverbs 5:22

The wickedness of the ungodly shall catch himself, and with the snares of his own sins shall he be trapped.

Proverbs 22:8

He that soweth wickedness shall reap sorrow; and the rod of his plague shall destroy him.

Ecclesiastes 10:8

But he that diggeth up a pit, shall fall therein himself; and whoso breaketh down the hedge, a serpent shall bite him.

Isaiah 59:5-8

They breed cockatrice eggs, and weave the spider's web. Whoso eateth of their eggs dieth. But if one treadeth upon them, there cometh up a serpent.

Ephesians 4:22

so then, as concerning the conversation in time past, lay from you that old man, which is corrupt through the deceivable lusts,

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