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Proverbs 10:16

The wage of a good person is exuberant life; an evil person ends up with nothing but sin.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Righteousness;   Thompson Chain Reference - Righteous, the;   Righteous-Wicked;   Saints;   The Topic Concordance - Bearing Fruit;   Labor;   Righteousness;   Wickedness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Sin;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Proverb, the Book of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, the Book of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Prov'erbs, Book of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Fruit;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Life;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for February 2;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The reward of the righteous is life;the wages of the wicked is punishment.
Hebrew Names Version
The labor of the righteous leads to life. The increase of the wicked leads to sin.
King James Version
The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.
English Standard Version
The wage of the righteous leads to life, the gain of the wicked to sin.
New American Standard Bible
The wages of the righteous is life, The income of the wicked, punishment.
New Century Version
Good people are rewarded with life, but evil people are paid with punishment.
New English Translation
The reward which the righteous receive is life; the recompense which the wicked receive is judgment.
Amplified Bible
The wages of the righteous [the upright, those in right standing with God] is [a worthwhile, meaningful] life, The income of the wicked, punishment.
World English Bible
The labor of the righteous leads to life. The increase of the wicked leads to sin.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: but the reuenues of the wicked to sinne.
Legacy Standard Bible
The wages of the righteous is life,The income of the wicked, punishment.
Berean Standard Bible
The labor of the righteous leads to life, but the gain of the wicked brings punishment.
Contemporary English Version
If you live right, the reward is a good life; if you are evil, all you have is sin.
Complete Jewish Bible
The activity of the righteous is for life; the income of the wicked is for sin.
Darby Translation
The labour of a righteous [man] [tendeth] to life; the revenue of a wicked [man], to sin.
Easy-to-Read Version
What good people do brings life, but wicked people produce only sin.
George Lamsa Translation
The labor of the righteous tends to life; the harvest of the wicked to sin.
Good News Translation
The reward for doing good is life, but sin leads only to more sin.
Lexham English Bible
The wage of the righteous leads to life; the gain of the wicked to sin.
Literal Translation
The labor of the righteous is for life; the gain of the wicked is for sin.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The rightuous laboureth to do good, but the vngodly vseth his increase vnto synne.
American Standard Version
The labor of the righteous tendeth to life; The increase of the wicked, to sin.
Bible in Basic English
The work of the upright gives life: the increase of the evil-doer is a cause of sin.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The wages of the righteous is life; the increase of the wicked is sin.
King James Version (1611)
The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruite of the wicked to sinne.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The labour of the righteous [tendeth] to lyfe: but the fruites of the vngodly, to sinne.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The works of the righteous produce life; but the fruits of the ungodly produce sins.
English Revised Version
The labour of the righteous tendeth to life; the increase of the wicked to sin.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The werk of a iust man is to lijf; but the fruyt of a wickid man is to synne.
Update Bible Version
The labor of the righteous [tends] to life; The increase of the wicked, to sin.
Webster's Bible Translation
The labor of the righteous [tendeth] to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.
New King James Version
The labor of the righteous leads to life, The wages of the wicked to sin.
New Living Translation
The earnings of the godly enhance their lives, but evil people squander their money on sin.
New Life Bible
The pay earned by those who are right with God is life, but the sinful are paid by being punished.
New Revised Standard
The wage of the righteous leads to life, the gain of the wicked to sin.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The labour of the righteous, leadeth to life, the increase of the lawless, to sin.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The work of the just is unto life: but the fruit of the wicked unto sin.
Revised Standard Version
The wage of the righteous leads to life, the gain of the wicked to sin.
Young's Literal Translation
The wage of the righteous [is] for life, The increase of the wicked for sin.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The wages of the righteous is life, The income of the wicked, punishment.

Contextual Overview

16 The wage of a good person is exuberant life; an evil person ends up with nothing but sin.

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

Judges 1:21
But the people of Benjamin couldn't get rid of the Jebusites living in Jerusalem. Benjaminites and Jebusites live side by side in Jerusalem to this day.
2 Samuel 24:18
That same day Gad came to David and said, "Go and build an altar on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite." David did what Gad told him, what God commanded.
Zechariah 9:7
The Whole World Has Its Eyes on God War Bulletin: God 's Message challenges the country of Hadrach. It will settle on Damascus. The whole world has its eyes on God . Israel isn't the only one. That includes Hamath at the border, and Tyre and Sidon, clever as they think they are. Tyre has put together quite a kingdom for herself; she has stacked up silver like cordwood, piled gold high as haystacks. But God will certainly bankrupt her; he will dump all that wealth into the ocean and burn up what's left in a big fire. Ashkelon will see it and panic, Gaza will wring its hands, Ekron will face a dead end. Gaza's king will die. Ashkelon will be emptied out, And a villain will take over in Ashdod. "I'll take proud Philistia down a peg: I'll make him spit out his bloody booty and abandon his vile ways." What's left will be all God's—a core of survivors, a family brought together in Judah— But enemies like Ekron will go the way of the Jebusites, into the dustbin of history. "I will set up camp in my home country and defend it against invaders. Nobody is going to hurt my people ever again. I'm keeping my eye on them. "Shout and cheer, Daughter Zion! Raise the roof, Daughter Jerusalem! Your king is coming! a good king who makes all things right, a humble king riding a donkey, a mere colt of a donkey. I've had it with war—no more chariots in Ephraim, no more war horses in Jerusalem, no more swords and spears, bows and arrows. He will offer peace to the nations, a peaceful rule worldwide, from the four winds to the seven seas. "And you, because of my blood covenant with you, I'll release your prisoners from their hopeless cells. Come home, hope-filled prisoners! This very day I'm declaring a double bonus— everything you lost returned twice-over! Judah is now my weapon, the bow I'll pull, setting Ephraim as an arrow to the string. I'll wake up your sons, O Zion, to counter your sons, O Greece. From now on people are my swords." Then God will come into view, his arrows flashing like lightning! Master God will blast his trumpet and set out in a whirlwind. God -of-the-Angel-Armies will protect them— all-out war, The war to end all wars, no holds barred. Their God will save the day. He'll rescue them. They'll become like sheep, gentle and soft, Or like gemstones in a crown, catching all the colors of the sun. Then how they'll shine! shimmer! glow! the young men robust, the young women lovely!

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.


 
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