Verse 27

The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, turning one away from the snares of death.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 13:14 : 14 The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, helping one turn away from the traps of death.
  • Prov 22:5 : 5 Thorns and snares are in the path of the crooked; whoever guards their soul will stay far from them.
  • Eccl 7:26 : 26 I found that more bitter than death is the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are chains. The one who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner will be caught by her.
  • Isa 33:6 : 6 He will be the stability of your times, a wealth of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge. The fear of the LORD is His treasure.
  • Rev 21:6 : 6 And He said to me, 'It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty, I will give freely from the spring of the water of life.'
  • Ps 18:5 : 5 The cords of death surrounded me, and the torrents of destruction overwhelmed me.
  • Prov 2:10-18 : 10 For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul. 11 Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you, 12 rescuing you from the way of evil, from anyone who speaks perversely, 13 from those who abandon the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness, 14 from those who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perversity of wickedness. 15 Their paths are crooked, and their ways are devious. 16 It will save you from the wayward woman, from the foreign woman with her flattering words, 17 who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God; 18 for her house sinks down to death, and her paths to the departed spirits.