Bible verse

Proverbs 22:4

The rewards of humility and the fear of the LORD are wealth and honor and life.

Proverbs 22:4 · BSB

Proverbs 22:4 in context

The verses around it, from Proverbs 22.

1 A good name is more desirable than great riches; favor is better than silver and gold.

2 The rich and the poor have this in common: The LORD is Maker of them all.

3 The prudent see danger and take cover, but the simple keep going and suffer the consequences.

4 The rewards of humility and the fear of the LORD are wealth and honor and life.

5 Thorns and snares lie on the path of the perverse; he who guards his soul stays far from them.

6 Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

7 The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender.

8 He who sows injustice will reap disaster, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.

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Proverbs 22:4 in other translations

KJV

By humility [and] the fear of the LORD [are] riches, and honour, and life.

ASV

The reward of humility and the fear of Jehovah Is riches, and honor, and life.

ERV

The reward of humility and the fear of the LORD is riches, and honour, and life.

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