Proverbs 12:28
Modern Translations
New International Version
In the way of righteousness there is life; along that path is immortality.

New Living Translation
The way of the godly leads to life; that path does not lead to death.

English Standard Version
In the path of righteousness is life, and in its pathway there is no death.

Berean Study Bible
There is life in the path of righteousness, but another path leads to death.

New American Standard Bible
In the way of righteousness there is life, And in its pathway there is no death.

NASB 1995
In the way of righteousness is life, And in its pathway there is no death.

NASB 1977
In the way of righteousness is life, And in its pathway there is no death.

Amplified Bible
In the way of righteousness is life, And in its pathway there is no death [but immortality—eternal life].

Christian Standard Bible
There is life in the path of righteousness, and in its path there is no death.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
There is life in the path of righteousness, but another path leads to death.

Contemporary English Version
Living right is a pathway that leads to life and away from death.

Good News Translation
Righteousness is the road to life; wickedness is the road to death.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Everlasting life is on the way of righteousness. Eternal death is not along its path.

International Standard Version
In the pathway to righteousness there is life, and in that lifestyle there is no death.

NET Bible
In the path of righteousness there is life, but another path leads to death.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no death.

New King James Version
In the way of righteousness is life, And in its pathway there is no death.

King James 2000 Bible
In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no death.

New Heart English Bible
In the way of righteousness is life; in its path there is no death.

World English Bible
In the way of righteousness is life; in its path there is no death.

American King James Version
In the way of righteousness is life: and in the pathway thereof there is no death.

American Standard Version
In the way of righteousness is life; And in the pathway thereof there is no death.

A Faithful Version
In the way of righteousness is life, and in that pathway there is no death.

Darby Bible Translation
In the path of righteousness is life, and in the pathway thereof there is no death.

English Revised Version
In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no death.

Webster's Bible Translation
In the way of righteousness is life; and in the path of it there is no death.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Life is in the way of righteousnesse, and in that path way there is no death.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
In the way of ryghteousnesse there is life: & in the same way there is no death.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
In the waye of righteousnesse there is life, as for eny other waye, it is the path vnto death.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
In the path of righteousness [is] life, "" And in the way of [that] path [is] no death!

Young's Literal Translation
In the path of righteousness is life, And in the way of that path is no death!

Smith's Literal Translation
In the way of justice is life; and the way of its beaten path not death.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
In the path of justice is life: but the by-way leadeth to death.

Catholic Public Domain Version
In the path of justice, there is life. But the devious way leads to death.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
In the way of righteousness is life, and the way of the angry is unto death.

Lamsa Bible
In the way of righteousness is life; but the way of animosity leads to death.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
In the way of righteousness is life, And in the pathway thereof there is no death.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
In the ways of righteousness is life; but the ways of those that remember injuries lead to death.
















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