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Scripture Context
Proverbs 11:30 - Proverbs 12:9
30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.
31 Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth; much more the wicked and the sinner.
Proverbs 12
1 Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge; but he that hateth reproof is brutish.
2 A good man obtaineth favor of the Lord; but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.
3 A man shall not be established by wickedness; but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
4 A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband; but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
5 The thoughts of the righteous are right; but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
6 The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood; but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
7 The wicked are overthrown, and are not; but the house of the righteous shall stand.
8 A man shall be commended according to his wisdom; but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.
9 He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that honoreth himself, and lacketh bread.