Proverbs 7:27

American Standard Version (1901)

Her house is the way to Sheol, Going down to the chambers of death.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 5:5 : 5 Her feet go down to death; Her steps take hold on Sheol;
  • Prov 9:18 : 18 But he knoweth not that the dead are there; That her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
  • Eccl 7:26 : 26 And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, [and] whose hands are bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her. [
  • Rev 22:15 : 15 Without are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one that loveth and maketh a lie.
  • Prov 2:18-19 : 18 For her house inclineth unto death, And her paths unto the dead; 19 None that go unto her return again, Neither do they attain unto the paths of life:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 2:17-19
    3 verses
    88%

    17That forsaketh the friend of her youth, And forgetteth the covenant of her God:

    18For her house inclineth unto death, And her paths unto the dead;

    19None that go unto her return again, Neither do they attain unto the paths of life:

  • Prov 7:25-26
    2 verses
    85%

    25Let not thy heart decline to her ways; Go not astray in her paths.

    26For she hath cast down many wounded: Yea, all her slain are a mighty host.

  • Prov 5:4-6
    3 verses
    84%

    4But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged sword.

    5Her feet go down to death; Her steps take hold on Sheol;

    6So that she findeth not the level path of life: Her ways are unstable, [and] she knoweth [it] not.

  • Prov 7:10-12
    3 verses
    77%

    10And, behold, there met him a woman With the attire of a harlot, and wily of heart.

    11(She is clamorous and wilful; Her feet abide not in her house:

    12Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, And lieth in wait at every corner.)

  • 8Remove thy way far from her, And come not nigh the door of her house;

  • 8Passing through the street near her corner; And he went the way to her house,

  • 26And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, [and] whose hands are bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her. [

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    27For a harlot is a deep ditch; And a foreign woman is a narrow pit.

    28Yea, she lieth in wait as a robber, And increaseth the treacherous among men.

  • 24To the wise the way of life [goeth] upward, That he may depart from Sheol beneath.

  • Prov 9:1-4
    4 verses
    72%

    1Wisdom hath builded her house; She hath hewn out her seven pillars:

    2She hath killed her beasts; She hath mingled her wine; She hath also furnished her table:

    3She hath sent forth her maidens; She crieth upon the highest places of the city:

    4Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: As for him that is void of understanding, she saith to him,

  • 14The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: He that is abhorred of Jehovah shall fall therein.

  • Prov 7:21-22
    2 verses
    72%

    21With her much fair speech she causeth him to yield; With the flattering of her lips she forceth him along.

    22He goeth after her straightway, As an ox goeth to the slaughter, Or as [one in] fetters to the correction of the fool;

  • Prov 9:14-15
    2 verses
    72%

    14And she sitteth at the door of her house, On a seat in the high places of the city,

    15To call to them that pass by, Who go right on their ways:

  • 26For on account of a harlot [a man is brought] to a piece of bread; And the adulteress hunteth for the precious life.

  • 1Every wise woman buildeth her house; But the foolish plucketh it down with her own hands.

  • 18But he knoweth not that the dead are there; That her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

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

  • 12There is a way which seemeth right unto a man; But the end thereof are the ways of death.

  • 15Let death come suddenly upon them, Let them go down alive into Sheol; For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.

  • 11Sheol and Abaddon are before Jehovah: How much more then the hearts of the children of men!

  • 32A wife that committeth adultery! that taketh strangers instead of her husband!

  • 14Therefore Sheol hath enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth among them, descend [into it] . [

  • 7As a well casteth forth its waters, so she casteth forth her wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in her; before me continually is sickness and wounds.

  • 27and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and smote upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall thereof.

  • 3Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, At the coming in at the doors, she crieth aloud:

  • 5That they may keep thee from the strange woman, From the foreigner that flattereth with her words.

  • 6But she that giveth herself to pleasure is dead while she liveth.

  • 9It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than with a contentious woman in a wide house.

  • 25There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, But the end thereof are the ways of death.

  • 10Thou hast devised shame to thy house, by cutting off many peoples, and hast sinned against thy soul.

  • 16The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding Shall rest in the assembly of the dead.

  • 23whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit, and her company is round about her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living.

  • 7How much soever she glorified herself, and waxed wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall in no wise see mourning. [

  • 27She looketh well to the ways of her household, And eateth not the bread of idleness.

  • 20So is the way of an adulterous woman; She eateth, and wipeth her mouth, And saith, I have done no wickedness.

  • 7The wicked are overthrown, and are not; But the house of the righteous shall stand.

  • 15What hath my beloved to do in my house, seeing she hath wrought lewdness [with] many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.