Proverbs 12:28
There is life in the path of righteousness, but another path leads to death.
BSB
ASV
In the way of righteousness is life; And in the pathway thereof there is no death.
KJV
In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no death.
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 souls of those that bear a settled hatred are to death," says Solomon. But our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ says in the gospels: "If you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you, leave there your gift before the altar, and go your way; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift to God." .
In the way of righteousness is life,.... The life of the soul, or spiritual life, as Aben Ezra; and eternal life, as Gersom.
In the way of righteousness is life - חיים chaiyim, lives; life temporal, and life eternal. And in the pathway thereof there is no death - Not only do the general precepts and promises of God lead to life eternal, and promote life temporal; but every duty, every act of faith, patience of hope, and labor of love, though requiring much self-abasement, self-denial, and often an extension of corporal strength, all lead to life.
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
3 John 1:11Beloved, 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.
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Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil!
Turn away from evil and do good, so that you will abide forever.
Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children,
He must turn from evil and do good; he must seek peace and pursue it.
Everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come into the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.
Through
Romans 5:21so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to everyone.
Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who did not sin in the way that Adam transgressed. He is a pattern of the One to come.
For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.