Proverbs 14:14
Modern Translations
New International Version
The faithless will be fully repaid for their ways, and the good rewarded for theirs.

New Living Translation
Backsliders get what they deserve; good people receive their reward.

English Standard Version
The backslider in heart will be filled with the fruit of his ways, and a good man will be filled with the fruit of his ways.

Berean Study Bible
The backslider in heart receives the fill of his own ways, but a good man is rewarded for his ways.

New American Standard Bible
One with a wayward heart will have his fill of his own ways, But a good person will be satisfied with his.

NASB 1995
The backslider in heart will have his fill of his own ways, But a good man will be satisfied with his.

NASB 1977
The backslider in heart will have his fill of his own ways, But a good man will be satisfied with his.

Amplified Bible
The backslider in heart will have his fill with his own [rotten] ways, But a good man will be satisfied with his ways [the godly thought and action which his heart pursues and in which he delights].

Christian Standard Bible
The disloyal one will get what his conduct deserves, and a good one, what his deeds deserve.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The disloyal one will get what his conduct deserves, and a good man, what his deeds deserve.

Contemporary English Version
You harvest what you plant, whether good or bad.

Good News Translation
Bad people will get what they deserve. Good people will be rewarded for their deeds.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
A heart that turns [from God] becomes bored with its own ways, but a good person is satisfied with God's ways.

International Standard Version
The faithless one will pay for his behavior, but a good man will be rewarded for his.

NET Bible
The backslider will be paid back from his own ways, but a good person will be rewarded for his.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.

New King James Version
The backslider in heart will be filled with his own ways, But a good man will be satisfied from above.

King James 2000 Bible
The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from above himself.

New Heart English Bible
The unfaithful will be repaid for his own ways; likewise a good man will be rewarded for his ways.

World English Bible
The unfaithful will be repaid for his own ways; likewise a good man will be rewarded for his ways.

American King James Version
The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.

American Standard Version
The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways; And a good man'shall be satisfied from himself.

A Faithful Version
The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways, but a good man shall be satisfied with his own actions.

Darby Bible Translation
The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways, and the good man from what is in himself.

English Revised Version
The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.

Webster's Bible Translation
The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
The heart that declineth, shall be saciate with his owne wayes: but a good man shall depart from him.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
A backe slydyng heart shalbe fylled with his owne wayes: but a good man shall depart from hym.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
An vnfaithfull personne shal be fylled with his owne wayes, but a good ma wyl bewarre of soch.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
The backslider in heart is filled from his ways, "" And a good man—from his fruits.

Young's Literal Translation
From his ways is the backslider in heart filled, And a good man -- from his fruits.

Smith's Literal Translation
He drawing back the heart shall be filled from his ways: and a good man from above him.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
A fool shall be filled with his own ways, and the good man shall be above him.

Catholic Public Domain Version
The foolish will be filled up by his own ways. And the good man shall be above him.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
He who is rash in his heart will be filled with his ways, and a good man will be filled from the awe of his soul.

Lamsa Bible
The insolent in heart shall be filled with the fruit of his ways; and a good man shall be satisfied with the respect he receives.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
The dissembler in heart shall have his fill from his own ways; And a good man shall be satisfied from himself.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
A stout-hearted man shall be filled with his own ways; and a good man with his own thoughts.
















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