Good News Bible

Proverbs 11:27-31 Good News Bible (GNB)

27. If your goals are good, you will be respected, but if you are looking for trouble, that is what you will get.

28. Those who depend on their wealth will fall like the leaves of autumn, but the righteous will prosper like the leaves of summer.

29. Those who bring trouble on their families will have nothing at the end.Foolish people will always be servants to the wise.

30. Righteousness gives life, but violence takes it away.

31. Those who are good are rewarded here on earth, so you can be sure that wicked and sinful people will be punished.