the Week of Proper 24 / Ordinary 29
Click here to learn more!
Read the Bible
New King James Version
Proverbs 11:19
Bible Study Resources
Concordances:
- Nave'sDictionaries:
- BakerEncyclopedias:
- InternationalDevotionals:
- EveryParallel Translations
Godly people find life; evil people find death.
He that is steadfast in righteousness, to life; And he that pursues evil, to his death.
Those who are truly good will live, but those who chase after evil will die.
True righteousness leads to life, but the one who pursues evil pursues it to his own death.
As righteousness [tendeth] to life: so he that pursueth evil [pursueth it] to his own death.
He who is truly righteous gets life. He who pursues evil gets death.
He who is steadfast in righteousness attains life, But he who pursues evil attains his own death.
Whoever is steadfast in righteousness will live, but he who pursues evil will die.
Merci schal make redi lijf; and the suyng of yuels `schal make redi deth.
He that is stedfast in righteousness shall attain unto life: and he that pursueth evil doeth it to his own death.
Genuine righteousness leads to life, but the pursuit of evil brings death.
Always do the right thing, and you will live; keep on doing wrong, and you will die.
He that is stedfast in righteousness shall attain unto life; And he that pursueth evil doeth it to his own death.
So righteousness gives life; but he who goes after evil gets death for himself.
Genuine righteousness leads to life, but the pursuer of evil goes to his own death.
As righteousness [tendeth] to life, so he that pursueth evil [doeth it] to his own death.
People who do what is right are on their way to life, but those who always want to do wrong are on their way to death.
Stedfast righteousness tendeth to life; but he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.
As righteousnesse tendeth to life: so he that pursueth euill, pursueth it to his owne death.
He who will not be moved from being right with God will live, but he who goes for what is bad will bring about his own death.
Whoever is steadfast in righteousness will live, but whoever pursues evil will die.
As righteousnes leadeth to life: so hee that followeth euill, seeketh his owne death.
A son who is reared in righteousness lives long; but he who pursues evil pursues it to his own death.
Anyone who is determined to do right will live, but anyone who insists on doing wrong will die.
A righteous son, turneth to life, but, he that pursueth wickedness, to his own death.
Clemency prepareth life: and the pursuing of evil things, death.
He who is steadfast in righteousness will live, but he who pursues evil will die.
Lyke as ryghteousnesse bringeth lyfe: euen so to cleaue vnto euyll, bryngeth death.
A righteous son is born for life: but the persecution of the ungodly ends in death.
Genuine righteousness leads to life,but pursuing evil leads to death.
He who is truly righteous gets life. He who pursues evil gets death.
As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.
He who is steadfast in righteousness is to life as he who pursues evil is to death.
So righteousness leads to life, but one pursuing evil, to his death.
Rightly [is] righteousness for life, And whoso is pursuing evil -- for his own death.
Like as rightuousnes bryngeth life, eue so to cleue vnto euell, bryngeth death.
Take your stand with God's loyal community and live, or chase after phantoms of evil and die.
One who is steadfast in righteousness attains life, But one who pursues evil attains his own death.
He who is steadfast in righteousness will attain to life, And he who pursues evil will bring about his own death.
He who is steadfast in righteousness will attain to life,And he who pursues evil will bring about his own death.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
righteousness: Proverbs 11:4, Proverbs 10:16, Proverbs 12:28, Proverbs 19:23, Acts 10:35, 1 John 3:7, 1 John 3:10
he: Proverbs 1:16-19, Proverbs 7:22, Proverbs 7:23, Proverbs 8:36, Romans 2:8, Romans 2:9
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 18:18 - in that ye have 2 Kings 1:4 - but shalt Proverbs 5:6 - the path Proverbs 15:27 - He that is
Gill's Notes on the Bible
As righteousness [tendeth] to life,.... Or, is unto life: not mere outward acts of moral righteousness; these may be done where there is no principle of spiritual life, and are no other than dead works, and will never bring to everlasting life; indeed the best righteousness of man's is no justification of life, nor can it entitle to it, nor is meritorious of it. Godliness, or true holiness, has the promise of this life and that to come, 1 Timothy 4:8; and so here in the Hebrew text it is, "unto lives" x, in the plural number. Internal grace, or powerful godliness, which is the new man that is created in righteousness, gives a meetness for everlasting life, and issues in it; particularly the righteousness of Christ, as that is a perfectly justifying one; it makes a man alive in a law sense, and gives a title and claim to eternal life;
so he that pursueth evil [pursueth it] to his own death; or, it is "to his own death"; it issues in that: not he that is overtaken in a fault, or falls into sin through the infirmity of the flesh and the force of temptation, but such who eagerly follow after it and overtake it; who give up themselves unto it, weary themselves in committing it, draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope; these often by their sins bring diseases upon them, which end in a corporeal death; or by means of which they come into the hand of the civil magistrate, and are capitally punished; and, however, die the second death, or an eternal one, the just wages of sin, Romans 6:23.
x לחיים "ad vitas", Montanus.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 11:19. Righteousness tendeth to life — True godliness promotes health, and is the best means of lengthening out life; but wicked men live not out half their days.
