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Proverbs 3:18 KJV

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

Proverbs 3:18, King James Version

In context

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

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

19 The Lord by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.

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Cross-references

  • Proverbs 11:30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.
  • Proverbs 15:4 A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
  • Revelation 2:7 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
  • Genesis 2:9 And out of the ground made the Lord 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 knowledge of good and evil.
  • Genesis 3:22 And the Lord 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: