Proverbs 11:30 echoes the idea that righteousness yields life, using the 'tree of life' imagery.

Proverbs 12:28 reinforces this: righteousness leads to life, and in its pathway there is no death.

Isaiah 3:10 promises well-being to the righteous, reinforcing that their wages are life.

Isaiah 3:11 pronounces woe on the wicked, matching the idea that their earnings bring disaster.

In Matthew 7:17, Jesus uses the same good tree/good fruit metaphor—righteousness yields life as good fruit.

In Matthew 7:18, the principle that a tree cannot bear opposite fruit echoes the fixed outcomes of righteous and wicked labor.

In Matthew 12:33, the tree is known by its fruit—directly paralleling how righteous labor leads to life, wicked to sin.

In Romans 6:23, Paul echoes ‘wages’—the righteous labor leads to life, but sin’s wage is death, developing the same metaphor.

Galatians 6:7-9 expands the principle of reaping what you sow — righteous living yields eternal life, wickedness destruction.

John 6:27 points to eternal life as the true wage, echoing the principle that righteous labor yields life.

1 Corinthians 15:58 assures that labor in the Lord is not in vain, aligning with the principle that righteous deeds yield life.

Hebrews 6:10 assures that God remembers and rewards good works, echoing the promise that righteousness yields life.