“Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.”
Proverbs 13:6 (KJV) |
Proverbs 13:6
From Proverbs 13, in the Book of Proverbs (Old Testament).
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The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.
Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.
The ransom of a man’s life are his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke.