Proverbs 14:14

In 11 translations

BSB

The backslider in heart receives the fill of his own ways, but a good man is rewarded for his ways.

KJV

The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.

WEB

The unfaithful will be repaid for his own ways; likewise a good man will be rewarded for his ways.

ASV

The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways; And a good man shall be satisfied from himself.

LSV

The backslider in heart is filled from his ways, || And a good man—from his fruits.

YLT

From his ways is the backslider in heart filled, And a good man — from his fruits.

DBY

The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways, and the good man from what is in himself.

DRC

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

GNV

The heart that declineth, shall be saciate with his owne wayes: but a good man shall depart from him.

JPS

The dissembler in heart shall have his fill from his own ways; and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.

LXXE

A stout-hearted man shall be filled with his own ways; and a good man with his own thoughts.Lit. bold-hearted.

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Original-language editions

WLC

מִדְּרָכָ֣יו יִ֭שְׂבַּע ס֣וּג לֵ֑ב וּ֝מֵעָלָ֗יו אִ֣ישׁ טֽוֹב׃

LXX-Br

Τῶν ἑαυτοῦ ὁδῶν πλησθήσεται θρασυκάρδιος, ἀπὸ δὲ τῶν διανοημάτων αὐτοῦ ἀνὴρ ἀγαθός.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• Galatians 6:8The one who sows to please his flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; but the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.
• Proverbs 12:14By fruitful speech a man is filled with good things, and the work of his hands returns to him.
• Hebrews 3:12See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.
• Jeremiah 8:5Why then have these people turned away? Why does Jerusalem always turn away? They cling to deceit; they refuse to return.
• Jeremiah 2:19Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Consider and realize how evil and bitter it is for you to forsake the LORD your God and to have no fear of Me,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.
• 2 Peter 2:20–22If indeed they have escaped the corruption of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, only to be entangled and overcome by it again, their final condition is worse than it was at first. It…
• John 4:14But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”
• Galatians 6:4Each one should test his own work. Then he will have reason to boast in himself alone, and not in someone else.
• Proverbs 1:31–32So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. For the waywardness of the simple will slay them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them.
• Jeremiah 17:5This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes the flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.
• Zephaniah 1:6and those who turn back from following the LORD, neither seeking the LORD nor inquiring of Him.”
• Proverbs 14:10The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares in its joy.
• 2 Corinthians 1:12And this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in relation to you, in the holiness and sincerity that are from God—not in worldly wisdom, but in the grace…
• Ezekiel 22:31So I have poured out My indignation upon them and consumed them with the fire of My fury. I have brought their ways down upon their own heads, declares the Lord GOD.”
• Hosea 4:16For Israel is as obstinate as a stubborn heifer. Can the LORD now shepherd them like lambs in an open meadow?

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