Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

Rightly is righteousness for life, And whoso is pursuing evil -- for his own death.

New American Standard Bible

He who is steadfast in righteousness will attain to life,
And he who pursues evil will bring about his own death.

King James Version

As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.

Holman Bible

Genuine righteousness leads to life,
but pursuing evil leads to death.

International Standard Version

Genuine righteousness leads to life, but whoever pursues evil will die.

A Conservative Version

He who is steadfast in righteousness [comes] to life, and he who pursues evil [comes] to his own death.

American Standard Version

He that is stedfast in righteousness'shall attain unto life; And he that pursueth evil doeth it to his own death.

Amplified


He who is steadfast in righteousness attains life,
But he who pursues evil attains his own death.

Bible in Basic English

So righteousness gives life; but he who goes after evil gets death for himself.

Darby Translation

As righteousness tendeth to life, so he that pursueth evil doeth it to his own death.

Julia Smith Translation

So justice to life, and he pursuing evil, to his death.

King James 2000

As righteousness leads to life: so he that pursues evil pursues it to his own death.

Lexham Expanded Bible

He who is steadfast in righteousness [is] to life as he who pursues evil [is] to death.

Modern King James verseion

So righteousness tends to life; but one pursuing evil, it is to his own death.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Like as righteousness bringeth life; even so to cleave unto evil, bringeth death.

NET Bible

True righteousness leads to life, but the one who pursues evil pursues it to his own death.

New Heart English Bible

He who is truly righteous gets life. He who pursues evil gets death.

The Emphasized Bible

A righteous son, turneth to life, but, he that pursueth wickedness, to his own death.

Webster

As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.

World English Bible

He who is truly righteous gets life. He who pursues evil gets death.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
חי 
Chay 
Usage: 502

so he that pursueth
רדף 
Radaph 
Usage: 143

Context Readings

Proverbs Of Solomon

18 The wicked is getting a lying wage, And whoso is sowing righteousness -- a true reward. 19 Rightly is righteousness for life, And whoso is pursuing evil -- for his own death. 20 An abomination to Jehovah are the perverse of heart, And the perfect of the way are His delight.

Cross References

Proverbs 10:16

The wage of the righteous is for life, The increase of the wicked for sin.

Proverbs 19:23

The fear of Jehovah is to life, And satisfied he remaineth -- he is not charged with evil.

Proverbs 12:28

In the path of righteousness is life, And in the way of that path is no death!

Proverbs 1:16-19

For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood.

Proverbs 7:22-23

He is going after her straightway, As an ox unto the slaughter he cometh, And as a fetter unto the chastisement of a fool,

Proverbs 8:36

And whoso is missing me, is wronging his soul, All hating me have loved death!

Proverbs 11:4

Wealth profiteth not in a day of wrath, And righteousness delivereth from death.

Acts 10:35

but in every nation he who is fearing Him, and is working righteousness, is acceptable to Him;

Romans 2:8-9

and to those contentious, and disobedient, indeed, to the truth, and obeying the unrighteousness -- indignation and wrath,

Romans 6:23

for the wages of the sin is death, and the gift of God is life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

1 John 3:7

Little children, let no one lead you astray; he who is doing the righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous,

1 John 3:10

In this manifest are the children of God, and the children of the devil; every one who is not doing righteousness, is not of God, and he who is not loving his brother,

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