THEOSISProverbs 12:28Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
In the path of justice is life: but the bye-way leadeth to death.
בְּאֹֽרַח־צְדָקָ֥ה חַיִּ֑ים וְדֶ֖רֶךְ נְתִיבָ֣ה אַל־מָֽוֶת׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- 3 John 1:11Dearly beloved, follow not that which is evil: but that which is good. He that doth good is of God: he that doth evil hath not seen God.
- Rom 5:21That as sin hath reigned to death: so also grace might reign by justice unto life everlasting, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
- Ezek 18:20The soul that sinneth, the same shall die: the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, and the father shall not bear the iniquity of the son: the justice of the just shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
- Ezek 18:24But if the just man turn himself away from his justice, and do iniquity according to all the abominations which the wicked man useth to work, shall he live? all his justices which he hath done, shall not be remembered: in the prevarication, by which he hath prevaricated, and in his sin, which he hath committed, in them he shall die.
- Prov 11:19Clemency prepareth life: and the pursuing of evil things, death.
- Titus 2:11For the grace of God our Saviour hath appeared to all men:
- Titus 2:12Instructing us, that, denying ungodliness and worldly desires, we should live soberly and justly and godly in this world,
- 1 John 3:7Little children, let no man deceive you. He that doth justice is just, even as he is just.