Proverbs 2:18
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits.”
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BSBPD
“For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“For her house inclineth unto death, And her paths unto the dead;”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“For her house hath inclined unto death, And unto Rephaim her paths.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Proverbs 2:18 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Proverbs 1:32For the waywardness of the simple will slay them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them.
- Proverbs 5:4in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a double-edged sword.
- Proverbs 6:26For the levy of the prostitute is poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.
- Proverbs 7:22He follows her on impulse, like an ox going to the slaughter, like a deer bounding into a trap,
- Proverbs 7:26For she has brought many down to death; her slain are many in number.
- Proverbs 7:27Her house is the road to Sheol, descending to the chambers of death.
- Proverbs 9:18But they do not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
- 1 Corinthians 6:9Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,
- Galatians 5:19The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;
- Ephesians 5:5For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
- Revelation 21:8But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”
- Revelation 22:15But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
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