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Proverbs 22:4

The reward for humility and fear of the Lord is riches and honor and life.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Fear of God;   Humility;   Thompson Chain Reference - Honour;   Honour-Dishonour;   Humility;   Humility-Pride;   The Topic Concordance - Fear;   Honor;   Humility;   Life;   Wealth;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Humility;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Humility;   Life;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Humility;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Humility, the fear of the Lord,results in wealth, honor, and life.
Hebrew Names Version
The result of humility and the fear of the LORD Is wealth, honor, and life.
King James Version
By humility and the fear of the Lord are riches, and honour, and life.
English Standard Version
The reward for humility and fear of the Lord is riches and honor and life.
New American Standard Bible
The reward of humility and the fear of the LORD Are riches, honor, and life.
New Century Version
Respecting the Lord and not being proud will bring you wealth, honor, and life.
Amplified Bible
The reward of humility [that is, having a realistic view of one's importance] and the [reverent, worshipful] fear of the LORD Is riches, honor, and life.
World English Bible
The result of humility and the fear of Yahweh Is wealth, honor, and life.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The rewarde of humilitie, and the feare of God is riches, and glory, and life.
Legacy Standard Bible
The reward of humility—the fear of Yahweh—Is riches, glory, and life.
Berean Standard Bible
The rewards of humility and the fear of the LORD are wealth and honor and life.
Contemporary English Version
Respect and serve the Lord ! Your reward will be wealth, a long life, and honor.
Complete Jewish Bible
The reward for humility is fear of Adonai , along with wealth, honor and life.
Darby Translation
The reward of humility [and] the fear of Jehovah is riches, and honour, and life.
Easy-to-Read Version
Respect the Lord and be humble. Then you will have wealth, honor, and true life.
George Lamsa Translation
The result of humility is reverence for the LORD, and riches and honor and life.
Good News Translation
Obey the Lord , be humble, and you will get riches, honor, and a long life.
Lexham English Bible
The reward of humility is the fear of Yahweh— wealth and honor and life.
Literal Translation
The reward of humility is the fear of Jehovah, riches, and honor, and life.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The ende of lowlynes & the feare of God, is riches, honor, prosperite and health.
American Standard Version
The reward of humility and the fear of Jehovah Is riches, and honor, and life.
Bible in Basic English
The reward of a gentle spirit and the fear of the Lord is wealth and honour and life.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The reward of humility is the fear of the LORD, even riches, and honour, and life.
King James Version (1611)
By humilitie and the feare of the Lord, are riches, and honour, and life.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
By humilitie and the feare of the Lorde, [commeth] riches, honour, and life.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The fear of the Lord is the offspring of wisdom, and wealth, and glory, and life.
English Revised Version
The reward of humility and the fear of the LORD is riches, and honour, and life.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The ende of temperaunce is the drede of the Lord; richessis, and glorye, and lijf.
Update Bible Version
The reward of humility [and] the fear of Yahweh [Is] riches, and honor, and life.
Webster's Bible Translation
By humility [and] the fear of the LORD [are] riches, and honor, and life.
New English Translation
The reward for humility and fearing the Lord is riches and honor and life.
New King James Version
By humility and the fear of the LORD Are riches and honor and life.
New Living Translation
True humility and fear of the Lord lead to riches, honor, and long life.
New Life Bible
The reward for not having pride and having the fear of the Lord is riches, honor and life.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The reward of humility, is the reverence of Yahweh, riches, and honour, and life.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The fruit of humility is the fear of the Lord, riches and glory and life.
Revised Standard Version
The reward for humility and fear of the LORD is riches and honor and life.
Young's Literal Translation
The end of humility [is] the fear of Jehovah, Riches, and honour, and life.
THE MESSAGE
The payoff for meekness and Fear-of- God is plenty and honor and a satisfying life.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The reward of humility and the fear of the LORD Are riches, honor and life.

Contextual Overview

4 The reward for humility and fear of the Lord is riches and honor and life.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

By: etc. Heb. The reward of humility, etc. Proverbs 3:16, Proverbs 21:21, Psalms 34:9, Psalms 34:10, Psalms 112:1-3, Isaiah 33:6, Isaiah 57:15, Matthew 6:33, 1 Timothy 4:8, James 4:6, James 4:10

Reciprocal: Genesis 24:35 - the Lord Deuteronomy 6:24 - he might Deuteronomy 22:7 - thou mayest Job 42:10 - the Lord Psalms 91:16 - With long life Proverbs 4:8 - General Daniel 4:36 - added

Cross-References

Exodus 5:3
Then they said, "The God of the Hebrews has revealed himself to us; let us go a three days' journey into the wilderness to sacrifice to the Lord our God, or he will fall upon us with pestilence or sword."
Exodus 15:22
Then Moses ordered Israel to set out from the Red Sea, and they went into the wilderness of Shur. They went three days in the wilderness and found no water.
Exodus 19:11
and prepare for the third day, because on the third day the Lord will come down upon Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.
Exodus 19:15
And he said to the people, "Prepare for the third day; do not go near a woman."
Leviticus 7:17
but what is left of the flesh of the sacrifice shall be burned up on the third day.
Numbers 10:33
So they set out from the mount of the Lord three days' journey with the ark of the covenant of the Lord going before them three days' journey, to seek out a resting place for them,
Numbers 19:12
They shall purify themselves with the water on the third day and on the seventh day, and so be clean; but if they do not purify themselves on the third day and on the seventh day, they will not become clean.
Numbers 19:19
The clean person shall sprinkle the unclean ones on the third day and on the seventh day, thus purifying them on the seventh day. Then they shall wash their clothes and bathe themselves in water, and at evening they shall be clean.
Numbers 31:19
Camp outside the camp seven days; whoever of you has killed any person or touched a corpse, purify yourselves and your captives on the third and on the seventh day.
Joshua 1:11
"Pass through the camp, and command the people: ‘Prepare your provisions; for in three days you are to cross over the Jordan, to go in to take possession of the land that the Lord your God gives you to possess.'"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

By humility [and] the fear of the Lord,.... Some render it, "the reward of humility, which [is] the fear of the Lord" r; so the Targum; an humble man is blessed with it. Jarchi's note is,

"because of humility, the fear of the Lord comes;''

humility leads on to the fear of the Lord; he that behaves humbly towards man comes at length to fear the Lord, and be truly religious: though these are rather to be considered as the graces of the Spirit of God, which go together where there is one, there is the other; he that is humbled under a sense of sin, and his own unworthiness, fears the Lord; and he that fears the Lord, and his goodness, will walk humbly before him; they both flow from the grace of God, are very ornamental, and attended with the following happy consequences;

[are] riches, and honour, and life; spiritual riches, the riches of grace and glory; honour with God and men now, and everlasting life in the world to come.

r עקב ענוה יראת יהוה "praemium mansuetudinis, quae est reverentia Jehovae", Schultens; "merces humilitatis timor Domini", Baynus; "praemium humilitatis est timor Domini": Tigurine version; so Vatablus, Mercerus, Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Better, (compare the margin) The reward of humility (is) the fear of the Lord, “riches, and honor, and life.


 
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