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Proverbs 11:19
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Proverbs 11:19
19As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.
19As righteousnesse tendeth to life: so he that pursueth euill, pursueth it to his owne death.
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Proverbs 11:19
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
righteousness
The state or character of being righteous; justice, uprightness, or conformity to what is right.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To watch; to guard; to accompany as an assistant or protector.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · KJV usage (PCE)
The state of living; the period or manner of one's existence.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Belonging to oneself; peculiar or proper to the person or thing named.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
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Open the full verse study16The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.
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Open the full verse study28In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no death.
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Open the full verse study23The fear of the Lord tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil.
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Open the full verse study8But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
9Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
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Open the full verse study16For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
17Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
18And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
19So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
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Open the full verse study22He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
23Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
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Open the full verse study36But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
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Open the full verse study10In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
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Open the full verse study7Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
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Open the full verse study35But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
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Open the full verse study23For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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Open the full verse study4Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
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