19 Whoever is steadfast in righteousness (A)will live,
    but (B)he who pursues evil will die.

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19 Truly the righteous attain life,(A)
    but whoever pursues evil finds death.(B)

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23 The fear of the Lord (A)leads to life,
    and whoever has it rests (B)satisfied;
    he will (C)not be visited by harm.

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23 The fear of the Lord leads to life;
    then one rests content, untouched by trouble.(A)

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16 The wage of the righteous leads (A)to life,
    the gain of the wicked to sin.

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16 The wages of the righteous is life,(A)
    but the earnings of the wicked are sin and death.(B)

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28 (A)In the path of righteousness is life,
    and in its pathway there is no death.

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28 In the way of righteousness there is life;(A)
    along that path is immortality.

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10 By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, (A)nor is the one who (B)does not love his brother.

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10 This is how we know who the children of God(A) are and who the children of the devil(B) are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not God’s child, nor is anyone who does not love(C) their brother and sister.(D)

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Little children, (A)let no one deceive you. (B)Whoever practices righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous.

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Dear children,(A) do not let anyone lead you astray.(B) The one who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous.(C)

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23 (A)For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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23 For the wages of sin is death,(A) but the gift of God is eternal life(B) in[a] Christ Jesus our Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 6:23 Or through

but for those who are self-seeking[a] and (A)do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury. There will be tribulation and distress (B)for every human being who does evil, the Jew (C)first and also the Greek,

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  1. Romans 2:8 Or contentious

But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil,(A) there will be wrath and anger.(B) There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil:(C) first for the Jew, then for the Gentile;(D)

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35 but (A)in every nation anyone who fears him and (B)does what is right is acceptable to him.

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35 but accepts from every nation the one who fears him and does what is right.(A)

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(A)Riches do not profit in the day of wrath,
    (B)but righteousness delivers from death.

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Wealth(A) is worthless in the day of wrath,(B)
    but righteousness delivers from death.(C)

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36 but he who fails to find me (A)injures himself;
    all who (B)hate me (C)love death.”

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36 But those who fail to find me harm themselves;(A)
    all who hate me love death.”(B)

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22 All at once he follows her,
    as an ox goes to the slaughter,
or as a stag is caught fast[a]
23     till an arrow pierces its liver;
as (A)a bird rushes into a snare;
    he does not know that it will cost him his life.

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  1. Proverbs 7:22 Probable reading (compare Septuagint, Vulgate, Syriac); Hebrew as a chain to discipline a fool

22 All at once he followed her
    like an ox going to the slaughter,
like a deer[a] stepping into a noose[b](A)
23     till an arrow pierces(B) his liver,
like a bird darting into a snare,
    little knowing it will cost him his life.(C)

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  1. Proverbs 7:22 Syriac (see also Septuagint); Hebrew fool
  2. Proverbs 7:22 The meaning of the Hebrew for this line is uncertain.

16 for (A)their feet run to evil,
    and they make haste to shed blood.
17 (B)For in vain is a net spread
    in the sight of any bird,
18 but these men (C)lie in wait for their own blood;
    they (D)set an ambush for their own lives.
19 (E)Such are the ways of everyone who is (F)greedy for unjust gain;
    (G)it takes away the life of its possessors.

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16 for their feet rush into evil,(A)
    they are swift to shed blood.(B)
17 How useless to spread a net
    where every bird can see it!
18 These men lie in wait(C) for their own blood;
    they ambush only themselves!(D)
19 Such are the paths of all who go after ill-gotten gain;
    it takes away the life of those who get it.(E)

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