◄ Proverbs 12:14 ►
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Good News Translation
Your reward depends on what you say and what you do; you will get what you deserve.

New Revised Standard Version
From the fruit of the mouth one is filled with good things, and manual labor has its reward.

Contemporary English Version
We are rewarded or punished for what we say and do.

New American Bible
From the fruit of their mouths people have their fill of good, and the works of their hands come back upon them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

satisfied

Proverbs 13:2 Of the fruit of his own month shall a man be filled with good things: but the soul of transgressors is wicked.

Proverbs 18:20,21 Of the fruit of a man's mouth shall his belly be satisfied: and the offspring of his lips shall fill him. . . .

Psalm 63:5 Let my soul be filled as with marrow and fatness: and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips.

and

Isaiah 3:10,11 Say to the just man that it is well, for he shall eat the fruit of his doings. . . .

Matthew 10:41,42 He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet, shall receive the reward of a prophet: and he that receiveth a just man in the name of a just man, shall receive the reward of a just man. . . .

Matthew 16:27 For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels: and then will he render to every man according to his works.

2 Thessalonians 1:6,7 Seeing it is a just thing with God to repay tribulation to them that trouble you: . . .

Hebrews 2:2 For if the word spoken by angels became steadfast and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward:

Hebrews 11:26 Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasure of the Egyptians. For he looked unto the reward.

Context
Loving Discipline and Knowledge
…13For the sins of the lips ruin draweth nigh to the evil man: but the just shall escape out of distress. 14By 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.15The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that is wise hearkeneth unto counsels.…
Cross References
Job 34:11
For he will render to a man his work, and according to the ways of every one he will reward them.

Proverbs 1:31
The turning away of little ones shall kill them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

Proverbs 13:2
Of the fruit of his own month shall a man be filled with good things: but the soul of transgressors is wicked.

Proverbs 14:14
A fool shall be filled with his own ways, and the good man shall be above him.

Proverbs 15:23
A man rejoiceth in the sentence of his mouth: and a word in due time is best.

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.

Proverbs 19:17
He that hath mercy on the poor, lendeth to the Lord: and he will repay him.

Proverbs 24:12
If thou say: I have not strength enough: he that seeth into the heart, he understandeth, and nothing deceiveth the keeper of thy soul, and he shall render to a man according to his works.

Isaiah 3:10
Say to the just man that it is well, for he shall eat the fruit of his doings.

Isaiah 3:11
Woe to the wicked unto evil: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

Hosea 4:9
And there shall be like people like priest: and I will visit their ways upon them, and I will repay them their devices.

Proverbs 12:13
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