◄ Proverbs 13:2 ►
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Good News Translation
Good people will be rewarded for what they say, but those who are deceitful are hungry for violence.

New Revised Standard Version
From the fruit of their words good persons eat good things, but the desire of the treacherous is for wrongdoing.

Contemporary English Version
You will be well rewarded for saying something kind, but all some people think about is how to be cruel and mean.

New American Bible
From the fruit of the mouth one enjoys good things, but from the throat of the treacherous comes violence.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Of the fruit of his own month shall a man be filled with good things: but the soul of transgressors is wicked.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Of the fruit of his own month shall a man be filled with good things: but the soul of transgressors is wicked.

eat

Proverbs 12:14 By the fruit of his own mouth shall a man be filled with good things, and according to the works of his hands it shall be repaid him.

Proverbs 18:20 Of the fruit of a man's mouth shall his belly be satisfied: and the offspring of his lips shall fill him.

the soul

Proverbs 1:11-13,18,31 Let us swallow him up alive like hell, and whole as one that goeth down into the pit. . . .

Proverbs 4:17 But the path of the just, as a shining light, goeth forwards, and increaseth even to perfect day.

Proverbs 10:11 Hatred stirreth up strifes: and charity covereth all sins.

Psalm 75:8 For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup of strong wine full of mixture. And he hath poured it out from this to that: but the dregs thereof are not emptied: all the sinners of the earth shall drink.

Psalm 140:11 A man full of tongue shall not be established in the earth: evil shall catch the unjust man unto destruction.

Jeremiah 25:27-31 And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Drink ye, and be drunken, and vomit: and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword, which I shall send among you. . . .

Habakkuk 2:8,17 Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all that shall be left of the people shall spoil thee: because of men's blood, and for the iniquity of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein. . . .

Revelation 16:6 For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets: and thou hast given them blood to drink. For they are worthy.

Context
A Father's Discipline
1A wise son heareth the doctrine of his father: but he that is a scorner, heareth not when he is reproved. 2Of the fruit of his own month shall a man be filled with good things: but the soul of transgressors is wicked.3He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his soul: but he that hath no guard on his speech shall meet with evils.…
Cross References
Proverbs 1:31
The turning away of little ones shall kill them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

Proverbs 4:17
But the path of the just, as a shining light, goeth forwards, and increaseth even to perfect day.

Proverbs 12:14
By the fruit of his own mouth shall a man be filled with good things, and according to the works of his hands it shall be repaid him.

Proverbs 18:21
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: they that love it, shall eat the fruits thereof.

Hosea 10:13
You have ploughed wickedness, you have reaped iniquity, you have eaten the fruit of lying: because thou hast trusted in thy ways, in the multitude of thy strong ones.

Proverbs 13:1
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