Proverbs 12:28
In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no death.
Cross-reference
Proverbs 8:35 promises life to those who find wisdom — the same life that righteousness yields in Proverbs 12:28.
Proverbs 9:11 says wisdom multiplies days — echoing the life promised through righteousness in Proverbs 12:28.
Proverbs 10:16 states the labor of the righteous leads to life — directly paralleling the way of righteousness as life.
Proverbs 11:19 explicitly says righteousness leads to life — matching the same truth in Proverbs 12:28.
Proverbs 10:2 states righteousness delivers from death, directly paralleling Proverbs 12:28's claim that righteousness leads to life.
Proverbs 11:4 similarly says righteousness delivers from death, reinforcing the same principle as Proverbs 12:28.
1 John 3:7 says the one who does right is righteous, underlining that righteous action defines the way to life.
1 John 2:29 connects doing what is right with being born of God, implying the same link between righteousness and life.
Ezekiel 18:20-24 explicitly states righteousness leads to life, wickedness to death, reinforcing the same causal link.
Romans 5:21 shows grace reigns through righteousness to eternal life, fulfilling the OT principle through Christ.
Romans 6:22 describes being slaves of God leading to holiness and eternal life, directly echoing the path of righteousness.
Romans 6:23 contrasts sin's death with God's gift of eternal life, mirroring the life/death dichotomy in Proverbs.
Titus 2:12 teaches that grace produces righteous living, which is the very 'way of righteousness' that leads to life.
In Psalm 16:11, the 'path of life' leads to joy and pleasures at God's right hand, expanding on the life promised in Proverbs 12:28's way of righteousness.
Deuteronomy 6:25 equates obedience to the law with righteousness, which in Proverbs is the path to life.
2 Peter 2:21 warns against knowing the way of righteousness and turning back, using the same OT phrase from Proverbs 12:28 about the path of righteousness.
Ezekiel 18:9 promises life to the one who walks in God's statutes — the same principle as righteousness leading to life.