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Proverbs 10:16
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The reward of the righteous is life;the wages of the wicked is punishment.
The labor of the righteous leads to life. The increase of the wicked leads to sin.
The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.
The wage of the righteous leads to life, the gain of the wicked to sin.
The wages of the righteous is life, The income of the wicked, punishment.
Good people are rewarded with life, but evil people are paid with punishment.
The reward which the righteous receive is life; the recompense which the wicked receive is judgment.
The wages of the righteous [the upright, those in right standing with God] is [a worthwhile, meaningful] life, The income of the wicked, punishment.
The labor of the righteous leads to life. The increase of the wicked leads to sin.
The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: but the reuenues of the wicked to sinne.
The wages of the righteous is life,The income of the wicked, punishment.
The labor of the righteous leads to life, but the gain of the wicked brings punishment.
If you live right, the reward is a good life; if you are evil, all you have is sin.
The activity of the righteous is for life; the income of the wicked is for sin.
The labour of a righteous [man] [tendeth] to life; the revenue of a wicked [man], to sin.
The labor of the righteous tends to life; the harvest of the wicked to sin.
The reward for doing good is life, but sin leads only to more sin.
The wage of the righteous leads to life; the gain of the wicked to sin.
The labor of the righteous is for life; the gain of the wicked is for sin.
The rightuous laboureth to do good, but the vngodly vseth his increase vnto synne.
The labor of the righteous tendeth to life; The increase of the wicked, to sin.
The work of the upright gives life: the increase of the evil-doer is a cause of sin.
The wages of the righteous is life; the increase of the wicked is sin.
The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruite of the wicked to sinne.
The labour of the righteous [tendeth] to lyfe: but the fruites of the vngodly, to sinne.
The works of the righteous produce life; but the fruits of the ungodly produce sins.
The labour of the righteous tendeth to life; the increase of the wicked to sin.
The werk of a iust man is to lijf; but the fruyt of a wickid man is to synne.
The labor of the righteous [tends] to life; The increase of the wicked, to sin.
The labor of the righteous [tendeth] to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.
The labor of the righteous leads to life, The wages of the wicked to sin.
The earnings of the godly enhance their lives, but evil people squander their money on sin.
The pay earned by those who are right with God is life, but the sinful are paid by being punished.
The wage of the righteous leads to life, the gain of the wicked to sin.
The labour of the righteous, leadeth to life, the increase of the lawless, to sin.
The work of the just is unto life: but the fruit of the wicked unto sin.
The wage of the righteous leads to life, the gain of the wicked to sin.
The wage of the righteous [is] for life, The increase of the wicked for sin.
The wage of a good person is exuberant life; an evil person ends up with nothing but sin.
The wages of the righteous is life, The income of the wicked, punishment.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
labour: Proverbs 11:30, Isaiah 3:10, Isaiah 3:11, John 6:27, 1 Corinthians 15:58, Galatians 6:7-9, Hebrews 6:10
the fruit: Matthew 7:17, Matthew 7:18, Matthew 12:33, Matthew 12:34, Matthew 15:19, Romans 6:23, 2 Timothy 2:17, 2 Timothy 2:18, 2 Timothy 3:13
Reciprocal: Proverbs 11:19 - righteousness Proverbs 12:28 - General Philippians 2:12 - work
Cross-References
The tribe of Benjamin could not force the Jebusites to leave Jerusalem. So even today, the Jebusites live with the people of Benjamin in Jerusalem.
That day Gad came to David and said, "Go and build an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite."
They will no longer eat meat with the blood still in it or any other forbidden food. Any Philistine left alive will become a part of my people; they will be just one more tribe in Judah. The people of Ekron will become a part of my people, as the Jebusites did.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The labour of the righteous [tendeth] to life,.... To natural life, and the support of it; all that he labours for is to get a livelihood for himself and family; that is all he desires, nor does he seek great things for himself: or to spiritual life; so his spiritual exercises in praying, reading, and hearing the word, and waiting upon ordinances, have a tendency to promote and maintain a spiritual life in him: or to eternal life; not that the works of a righteous man (so the Targum, Septuagint, and Arabic versions, render it in the plural number) are meritorious of eternal life; for life and righteousness are not to be had by the works of men, but by the grace of God; yet, as the righteous man labours for the meat which endures to everlasting life, given by the Son of God, his labour may be said to tend to life eternal, John 6:27;
the fruit of the wicked to sin; whatever he enjoys, whether got by labour; though the word seems purposely omitted, as some observe, to signify that is not intended; or whether left him as an inheritance; or whatever way acquired, lawfully or unlawfully; all his revenues and riches, the increase of his substance and fields, are all used to sinful purposes, to pride, luxury, and wantonness; and so tend to death, even death eternal, the just wages of sin.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
A warning against the conclusion to seek wealth first of all, which men of lower natures might draw from Proverbs 10:15.
“Quaerenda pecunia primum est;
Virtus post nummos?”
Horace, Ephesians 1:0. i. 53.
Such an inference is met by the experience, that while wealth gotten by honest industry is not only, like inherited riches a defense, but also a blessing, the seeming profit (rather than “fruit”) of the wicked tends to further sin 1 Timothy 6:10, and so to punishment. Compare Romans 6:21.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 10:16. The labour of the righteous — The good man labours that he may be able to support life; this is his first object: and then to have something to divide with the poor; this is his next object.
The fruit of the wicked to sin. — This man lives to eat and drink, and his property he spends in riot and excess. God's blessings are cursed to him.
