Proverbs 10:16 {17}
Good News Translation
The reward for doing good is life, but sin leads only to more sin.

New Revised Standard Version
The wage of the righteous leads to life, the gain of the wicked to sin.

Contemporary English Version
If you live right, the reward is a good life; if you are evil, all you have is sin.

New American Bible
The labor of the just leads to life, the gains of the wicked, to futility.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The way of life, to him that observeth correction: but he that forsaketh reproofs, goeth astray.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The way of life, to him that observeth correction: but he that forsaketh reproofs, goeth astray.

labour

Proverbs 11:30 If the just man receive in the earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner.

Isaiah 3:10,11 Say to the just man that it is well, for he shall eat the fruit of his doings. . . .

the fruit

Matthew 7:17,18 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, and the evil tree bringeth forth evil fruit. . . .

Matthew 12:33,34 Either make the tree good and its fruit good: or make the tree evil, and its fruit evil. For by the fruit the tree is known. . . .

Matthew 15:19 For from the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.

Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death. But the grace of God, life everlasting in Christ Jesus our Lord.

2 Timothy 2:17,18 And their speech spreadeth like a canker: of whom are Hymeneus and Philetus: . . .

2 Timothy 3:13 But evil men and seducers shall grow worse and worse: erring, and driving into error,

Context
Solomon's Proverbs: The Wise Son
15The work of the just is unto life: but the fruit of the wicked unto sin. 16The way of life, to him that observeth correction: but he that forsaketh reproofs, goeth astray.17Lying lips hide hatred: he that uttereth reproach, is foolish.…
Cross References
Proverbs 11:18
Clemency prepareth life: and the pursuing of evil things, death.

Proverbs 11:19
A perverse heart is abominable to the Lord: and his will is in them that walk sincerely.

Proverbs 10:15
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