“The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.”
Proverbs 10:16 (KJV) |
Proverbs 10:16
From Proverbs 10, in the Book of Proverbs (Old Testament).
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Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.
The rich man’s wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.
He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.
He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.