Proverbs 11:19
Genuine righteousness leads to life, but the pursuit of evil brings death.
BSB
ASV
He that is stedfast in righteousness shall attain unto life; And he that pursueth evil doeth it to his own death.
KJV
As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.
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, 1Ti 4:8; and so here in the Hebrew text it is, "unto lives" (x), in the plural number.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Proverbs 19:23The fear of the LORD leads to life, that one may rest content, without visitation from harm.
leads to
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
He who fears the LORD is secure in confidence, and his children shall have a place of refuge.
No harm befalls the righteous, but the wicked are filled with trouble.
and if you give yourself to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will go forth in the darkness, and your night will be like noonday.
For physical exercise is of limited value, but godliness is valuable in every way, holding promise for the present life and for the one to come.
Through
Proverbs 12:28There is life in the path of righteousness, but another path leads to death.
leads to
Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does evil has not seen God.
so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
The soul who sins is the one who will die. A son will not bear the iniquity of his father, and a father will not bear the iniquity of his son. The righteousness of…