Proverbs 3:18

Proverbs chapter 3 · verse 18 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: And happy is every one that retaineth her.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: And happy is every one that retaineth her.

Context

v.17Her ways are ways of pleasantness, And all her paths are peace.

v.18This passage

v.19Jehovah by wisdom founded the earth; By understanding he established the heavens.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Revelation 22:2

    in the midst of the street thereof. And on this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve manner of fruits, yielding its fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

  • Proverbs 13:12

    Hope deferred maketh the heart sick; But when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

  • Revelation 2:7

    He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. To him that overcometh, to him will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of God.

  • Genesis 2:9

    And out of the ground made Jehovah God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

  • Proverbs 11:30

    The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; And he that is wise winneth souls.

  • Genesis 3:22

    And Jehovah God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever—