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20 So you should stay on the path of good people,
    guarding the road of the righteous.

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27 Don’t withhold good from someone who deserves it,
    when it is in your power to do so.

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Integrity guides the virtuous,
    but dishonesty ruins the treacherous.

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Those who do right are saved by their righteousness,
    but the untrustworthy are caught by their own desires.

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17 Kind persons benefit themselves,
    but cruel people harm themselves.

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27 Those who look for good find favor,
    but those who seek evil—it will come to them.

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30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life,
    and the wise gather lives.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 11:30 Or LXX, Syr violence takes lives away

The Lord favors good people,
    but he condemns schemers.

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22 Good people leave their grandchildren an inheritance,
    but the wealth of sinners is stored up for the righteous.

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14 Rebellious hearts receive satisfaction from their ways;
    the good receive the due reward for their deeds.

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19 Evil people will bow down before the good;
    wicked people are at the gates of the righteous.

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22 Don’t those who plan evil go astray?
    Those who plan good receive loyalty and faithfulness.

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The Lord’s eyes are everywhere,
    keeping watch on evil and good people.

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13 Evil will never depart from the house
    of those who return evil for good.

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26 It isn’t good to punish the righteous,
    to strike the honorable for their integrity.

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A king who sits on his judgment throne
    sifts out all evil with his eyes.

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10 Whoever misleads those who do right onto an evil path
    will fall into their own pit,
    but the blameless will inherit good things.

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21 Those who show favoritism aren’t good;
    people do wrong for a crust of bread.

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The competent wife

10 A competent wife, how does one find her?
    Her value is far above pearls.
11 Her husband entrusts his heart to her,
    and with her he will have all he needs.
12 She brings him good and not trouble
    all the days of her life.

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