Verse 19

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

Referenced Verses

• Prov 10:16 : 16 ¶ The labour of the righteous [tendeth] to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.
• Prov 19:23 : 23 ¶ The fear of the LORD [tendeth] to life: and [he that hath it] shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil.
• Prov 12:28 : 28 ¶ In the way of righteousness [is] life; and [in] the pathway [thereof there is] no death.
• Acts 10:35 : 35 But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
• Rom 2:8-9 : 8 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, 9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
• Rom 6:23 : 23 For the wages of sin [is] death; but the gift of God [is] eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
• 1 John 3:7 : 7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
• 1 John 3:10 : 10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
• Prov 11:4 : 4 ¶ Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
• Prov 1:16-19 : 16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. 17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. 18 And they lay wait for their [own] blood; they lurk privily for their [own] lives. 19 So [are] the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; [which] taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
• Prov 7:22-23 : 22 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; 23 Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it [is] for his life.
• Prov 8:36 : 36 But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.