Proverbs 19:23
Good News Translation
Obey the LORD and you will live a long life, content and safe from harm.

New Revised Standard Version
The fear of the LORD is life indeed; filled with it one rests secure and suffers no harm.

Contemporary English Version
Showing respect to the LORD brings true life--if you do it, you can relax without fear of danger.

New American Bible
The fear of the LORD leads to life; one eats and sleeps free from any harm.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The fear of the Lord is unto life: and he shall abide in the fulness without being visited with evil.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The fear of the Lord is unto life: and he shall abide in the fulness without being visited with evil.

fear

Proverbs 10:27 The expectation of the just is joy: but the hope of the wicked shall perish.

Proverbs 14:26,27 In the fear of the Lord is confidence of strength, and there shall be hope for his children. . . .

Psalm 19:9 The fear of the Lord is holy, enduring for ever and ever: the judgments of the Lord are true, justified in themselves.

Psalm 33:18,19 Behold the eyes of the Lord are on them that fear him: and on them that hope in his mercy. . . .

Psalm 34:9-11 Fear the Lord, all ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him. . . .

Psalm 85:9 Surely his salvation is near to them that fear him : that glory may dwell in our land.

Psalm 103:17 But the mercy of the Lord is from eternity and unto eternity upon them that fear him: And his justice unto children's children,

Psalm 145:18-20 The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him: to all that call upon him in truth. . . .

Malachi 3:16,17 Then they that feared the Lord, spoke every one with his neighbour: and the Lord gave ear, and heard it: and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that fear the Lord, and think on his name. . . .

Malachi 4:2 But unto you that fear my name, the Sun of justice shall arise, and health in his wings: and you shall go forth, and shall leap like calves of the herd.

Acts 9:31 Now, the church had peace throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria: and was edified, walking in the fear of the Lord: and was filled with the consolation of the Holy Ghost.

shalt abide

Psalm 90:14 We are filled in the morning with thy mercy: and we have rejoiced, and are delighted all our days.

Psalm 91:16 I will fill him with length of days; and I will shew him my salvation.

Isaiah 58:10,11 When thou shalt pour out thy soul to the hungry, and shalt satisfy the afflicted soul, then shall thy light rise up in darkness, and thy darkness shall be as the noonday. . . .

Matthew 5:6 Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after justice: for they shall have their fill.

Philippians 4:11,12 I speak not as it were for want. For I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, to be content therewith. . . .

1 Timothy 4:8 For bodily exercise is profitable to little: but godliness is profitable to all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come.

1 Timothy 6:6-9 But godliness with contentment is great gain. . . .

Hebrews 13:5,6 Let your manners be without covetousness, contented with such things as you have. For he hath said: I will not leave thee: neither will I forsake thee. . . .

he shall

Proverbs 12:21 Whatsoever shall befall the just man, shall not make him sad: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief.

Romans 8:28 And we know that to them that love God all things work together unto good: to such as, according to his purpose, are called to be saints.

2 Timothy 4:18 The Lord hath delivered me from every evil work and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom. To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

Context
The Man of Integrity
22A needy man is merciful: and better is the poor than the lying man. 23The fear of the Lord is unto life: and he shall abide in the fulness without being visited with evil.24The slothful hideth his hand under his armpit, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth.…
Cross References
1 Timothy 4:8
For bodily exercise is profitable to little: but godliness is profitable to all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come.

Psalm 25:13
His soul shall dwell in good things: and his seed shall inherit the land.

Psalm 91:10
There shall no evil come to thee: nor shall the scourge come near thy dwelling.

Proverbs 11:19
A perverse heart is abominable to the Lord: and his will is in them that walk sincerely.

Proverbs 12:21
Whatsoever shall befall the just man, shall not make him sad: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief.

Proverbs 14:26
In the fear of the Lord is confidence of strength, and there shall be hope for his children.

Proverbs 14:27
The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, to decline from the ruin of death.

Proverbs 19:22
A needy man is merciful: and better is the poor than the lying man.

Proverbs 19:22
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