Proverbs 14:27Douay-Rheims
The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, to decline from the ruin of death.
Related Verses
Genesis 1:20
God also said: Let the waters bring forth the creeping creature having life, and the fowl that may fly over the earth under the firmament of heaven.
Genesis 1:30
And to all the beasts of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to all that move upon the earth, and wherein there is life, that they may have to feed upon. And it was so done.
Genesis 2:4
These are the generations of the heaven and the earth, when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the heaven and the earth:
Genesis 2:5
And every plant of the field before it spring up in the earth, and every herb of the ground before it grew: for the Lord God had not rained upon the earth; and there was not a man to till the earth.
Genesis 2:7
And the Lord God formed man of the slime of the earth: and breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul.